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Ancient predator’s bone-crunching diet reveals secrets of climate survivalClimate

Ancient predator’s bone-crunching diet reveals secrets of climate survival

August 5, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: August 4, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: August 4, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (August 4, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
August 4, 2025 Full article
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Photosynthesis rising on land but falling in oceans, global study findsScience

Photosynthesis rising on land but falling in oceans, global study finds

Study identifies global upswing in photosynthesis driven by land, offset by oceans Summary: Global photosynthesis has increased over the past two decades, but not uniformly…
August 4, 2025 Full article
Great Barrier Reef more volatile with sharp declines in coral cover
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Great Barrier Reef more volatile with sharp declines in coral coverNews

Great Barrier Reef more volatile with sharp declines in coral cover

Sydney, Australia | AIMS | Muser NewsDesk Hard coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef has declined substantially from the…
August 5, 2025 Full article
Reindeer suffer as Finland swelters in record heatwave
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Reindeer suffer as Finland swelters in record heatwaveNews

Reindeer suffer as Finland swelters in record heatwave

Helsinki, Finland | AFP A record-long heatwave in Finland has caused suffering and even deaths of reindeer, prompting alarm among herders…
August 5, 2025 Full article
UN starts new bid to forge plastics treaty amid ‘global crisis’
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UN starts new bid to forge plastics treaty amid ‘global crisis’News

UN starts new bid to forge plastics treaty amid ‘global crisis’

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP Nations must step up and resolve the global plastics crisis, the head of UN talks told negotiators…
August 5, 2025 Full article
Hong Kong records highest daily rainfall in August since 1884: Observatory
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Hong Kong records highest daily rainfall in August since 1884: ObservatoryNews

Hong Kong records highest daily rainfall in August since 1884: Observatory

Hong Kong, China | AFP Hong Kong on Tuesday recorded its highest daily rainfall in August since 1884, the city's weather…
August 5, 2025 Full article

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Image of the day: Green lifeline in Argentina’s Patagonian desertNews

Image of the day: Green lifeline in Argentina’s Patagonian desert

A striking contrast unfolds in northern Patagonia, where the arid plains of the Patagonian Desert give way to the vibrant green belt of the Alto…
August 4, 2025 Full article
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UN Plastics Treaty: Will the negotiations in Geneva finally achieve a breakthrough?News

UN Plastics Treaty: Will the negotiations in Geneva finally achieve a breakthrough?

From 5 to 14 August, representatives from over 170 countries as well as from science, civil society and industry are meeting in Switzerland continuing the…
August 4, 2025 Full article
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Italy fines fast-fashion giant Shein for ‘green’ claimsNews

Italy fines fast-fashion giant Shein for ‘green’ claims

Rome, Italy | AFP Italy's competition watchdog said Monday it has fined the company responsible for Shein's websites in Europe one million euros ($1.15 million) for…
August 4, 2025 Full article
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Plastic pollution ‘grave and growing’ health threat: LancetNews

Plastic pollution ‘grave and growing’ health threat: Lancet

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognised danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5…
August 4, 2025 Full article
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Image of the day: Berlin’s layered history seen from spaceNews

Image of the day: Berlin’s layered history seen from space

From the air, Berlin appears as a vast mosaic of stone, water, and green – a landscape shaped by centuries of conflict, division, and reinvention.…
July 31, 2025 Full article
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Lightning megaflash of 829 kilometres sets new world recordNews

Lightning megaflash of 829 kilometres sets new world record

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Muser NewsDesk A new world record for the longest distance lightning flash was declared on Thursday -- a lightning megaflash that…
July 31, 2025 Full article

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Ancient predator’s bone-crunching diet reveals secrets of climate survivalClimate

Ancient predator’s bone-crunching diet reveals secrets of climate survival

Fossil teeth reveal how a 56-million-year-old mammal adapted to global warming and what it means for animals today Summary: About 56 million years ago, during…
August 5, 2025 Full article
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‘Silent killer’: the science of tracing climate deaths in heatwavesClimate

‘Silent killer’: the science of tracing climate deaths in heatwaves

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk A heatwave scorching Europe had barely subsided in early July when scientists published estimates that 2,300 people may have…
July 31, 2025 Full article
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Machine learning tool boosts climate model accuracy for extreme eventsClimate

Machine learning tool boosts climate model accuracy for extreme events

New correction method tackles climate model biases in temperature, precipitation, and compound extremes Summary: A new machine learning method significantly enhances the accuracy of global…
July 30, 2025 Full article
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Turkey’s glaciers fall victim to climate changeClimate

Turkey’s glaciers fall victim to climate change

Turkey | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: "There were glaciers…
July 29, 2025 Full article
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Health benefits of energy efficiency far greater in Eastern Europe than Western EuropeClimate

Health benefits of energy efficiency far greater in Eastern Europe than Western Europe

The health benefits of energy interventions are greatest in countries such as Romania, Greece, and Bulgaria, according to a new study which provides a digital…
July 25, 2025 Full article
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Most detailed map of Antarctic submarine canyons reveals climate roleClimate

Most detailed map of Antarctic submarine canyons reveals climate role

Submarine canyons and climate change Summary: Submarine canyons off Antarctica are larger, deeper, and more complex than previously thought – and their role in regulating…
July 23, 2025 Full article
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Forest degradation rises 163% in the Amazon, offsetting climate gainsClimate

Forest degradation rises 163% in the Amazon, offsetting climate gains

'Negative balance' of biome protection recorded between 2022 and 2024 could jeopardize Brazil’s international goals, warn Brazilian researchers and their international collaborators in the journal…
July 22, 2025 Full article

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Climate Science Digest: August 4, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: August 4, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (August 4, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
August 4, 2025 Full article
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Photosynthesis rising on land but falling in oceans, global study findsScience

Photosynthesis rising on land but falling in oceans, global study finds

Study identifies global upswing in photosynthesis driven by land, offset by oceans Summary: Global photosynthesis has increased over the past two decades, but not uniformly…
August 4, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: August 1, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: August 1, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (August 1, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
August 1, 2025 Full article
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Seals sing ‘otherworldly’ songs structured like nursery rhymesScience

Seals sing ‘otherworldly’ songs structured like nursery rhymes

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk When male leopard seals dive down into icy Antarctic waters, they sing songs structured like nursery rhymes in performances…
July 31, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: July 31, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: July 31, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (July 31, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
July 31, 2025 Full article
Image: AI art of Earth - climate change effects (s. science, climate, Muser)
Climate Science Digest: July 30, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: July 30, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (July 30, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
July 30, 2025 Full article

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Image of the day: June 2025 breaks heat records across western EuropeFacts

Image of the day: June 2025 breaks heat records across western Europe

Western Europe endured its warmest June on record in 2025, with temperatures driven to extreme levels by back-to-back heatwaves and unusually warm seas. Data from…
July 11, 2025 Full article
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Sand and dust storms pose growing threat to global health and economy, WMO reportsFacts

Sand and dust storms pose growing threat to global health and economy, WMO reports

Sand and dust storms are affecting hundreds of millions of people across more than 150 countries, with rising consequences for public health, transportation, and agriculture,…
July 11, 2025 Full article
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Image of the day: Global temperature hovers near 1.5°C in May 2025Facts

Image of the day: Global temperature hovers near 1.5°C in May 2025

May 2025 was the second warmest May ever recorded globally, with an average surface air temperature of 15.79°C – 0.53°C above the 1991–2020 average –…
June 17, 2025 Full article
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Image of the day: April 2025 ranks as second warmest April ever recorded globallyFacts

Image of the day: April 2025 ranks as second warmest April ever recorded globally

April 2025 continued an unrelenting streak of high global temperatures, becoming the second warmest April ever recorded, according to the latest Climate Bulletin from the…
May 14, 2025 Full article
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Key facts on deep-sea miningNewsFacts

Key facts on deep-sea mining

Oslo, Norway | AFP What resources lie on the ocean floor?Why mine them?The environmental cost?Current state of play? Supporters see deep-sea mining as a boon…
April 29, 2025 Full article
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Summer 2024 was Lapland’s warmest in 2,000 years: studyNewsFacts

Summer 2024 was Lapland’s warmest in 2,000 years: study

Helsinki, Finland | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The summer of 2024 was the warmest in 2,000 years in the Lapland region of northern Finland, Norway…
April 28, 2025 Full article
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Coral reefs pushed to brink as bleaching crisis worsensNewsFacts

Coral reefs pushed to brink as bleaching crisis worsens

Paris, France | AFP An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis that could…
April 23, 2025 Full article