With mounting evidence of health and environmental impacts, fracking faces opposition from many of the leading Democratic candidates for president.
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January 28, 2020
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January 27, 2020
The award posthumously recognizes Takahashi's research around ocean uptake of carbon dioxide emissions.
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January 27, 2020
Diversity is key to resilience, says new study.
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January 23, 2020
Dan Westervelt, a 2019 Center for Climate and Life Fellow, received funding to address the ongoing air pollution crisis in three large sub-Saharan African cities.
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January 20, 2020
A scientist who has played a key role in documenting modern sea-level rise and its causes is to receive the 2020 Vetlesen Prize for achievement in the Earth sciences.
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January 20, 2020
Long-lived compounds implicated in a third of overall global warming from 1955 to 2005.
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January 13, 2020
For about the last 10 years, environmental law professor Karl Coplan has been trying to winnow down his direct footprint of carbon-dioxide emissions.
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January 13, 2020
My last days in the field brought us to monuments in a makeshift home near the ocean, a flooded field next to a school, and adjacent to a jute mill. Most of us now head back to Dhaka, the capital. Céline will stay on a few more days, then Hasnat with Saif and Nahin will continue until all the monuments are resurveyed.
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January 10, 2020
Leading researchers design formal wear with a scientific edge.
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January 10, 2020
We continued our GPS surveys of monuments to measure land subsidence. While the work generally went very well, we faced challenges from obscured or tilted monuments. We also struggled with large traffic delays, particularly at unpredictable ferry crossings.
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January 09, 2020
Getting to remote sites started to prove challenging, and involved many forms of transportation by land and water.
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January 08, 2020
A new study uncovers a previously undocumented relationship between erosion and wind speed.
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January 04, 2020
Lamont scientist Mike Steckler is back in Bangladesh to investigate the balance between sea level rise, sinking of the land, and filling of the space with sediments, using precision GPS to measure how much geodetic monuments have sunk or subsided over the 18 years since they were installed.
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January 02, 2020
Evidence suggests that this major ocean current, which influences the weather in parts of Europe and the U.S., is already changing.
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December 27, 2019
And how to protect yourself from them.
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