Agriculture
Crops are being engineered to thrive in our changing climate
Plants are already the best carbon catchers on Earth. New research could make them even better.
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Human-caused climate change has played a big role in this summer’s historic heat.
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OceansSummer 2023 is when the ocean first turned ‘hot tub’ hot
Unfortunately, scientists worry that this atypical sea warming may actually be the beginning of an unwelcome new ‘normal.’
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TechGravity ‘batteries’ might help a weighty renewable-energy problem
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TechHigh-tech solar ‘leaves’ create green fuels from the sun
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EarthCanada’s Crawford Lake seems to mark when the Anthropocene began
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TechNew thermal ‘cloak’ keeps spaces from getting too hot or too cold
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OceansHow would a mermaid sound underwater?
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AnimalsMegalodons may have become megahunters by running hot
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