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During cold weather, water may become supercooled. When the water body is well mixed, supercooling may penetrate to a significant depth, even all the way…
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Think about what you drank today. Odds are, you drank water at some point. For most of us, particularly in more developed countries, water might…
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Why are forests relevant? Forest ecosystems contain large amounts of different groups of organisms and play a key role in biodiversity conservation across the world’s…
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The natural environment delivers many goods and services that human beings cannot manage without. Health, energy, and safety are just a few of the basic…
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Through our sheer abundance, human activity is a pervasive influence on all ecosystems. Any influence can be appraised through cost-benefit analysis, which, I would suggest,…
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It is clear that we cannot live without plastic anymore. Plastic has become an essential material for our life, from the moment we get up…
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The Holocene, the current geological epoch, spans approximately the last 11,700 years. Holocene temperature variability in Ireland is considered to have been relatively subdued; however, recent…
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Florida’s reefs are now at risk of eroding away Over the last 50 years, coral bleaching, disease, and other human disturbances have caused declines in…
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The last deglaciation period (∼18–10 kyr BP) presents a transition from the last glacial stage to warm interglacial, accompanied by an increase in global temperature,…
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In-situ burning (ISB) is a conventional method in oil spill cleanup. It requires less equipment compared to manual or mechanical recovery. It is also faster…
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Arachis diogoi, a wild diploid species related to the cultivated peanut, is resistant to the late leaf spot pathogen Phaeoisariopsis personata, which is one of…
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