Imperial Valley News Center
Water problems in Asia’s future?
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- Written by Peter Dizikes
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Economic and population growth on top of climate change could lead to serious water shortages across a broad swath of Asia by the year 2050, a newly published study by MIT scientists has found.
First temperature map of a “super-Earth” reveals lava world
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- Written by Jennifer Chu
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Astronomers from MIT, Cambridge University, and elsewhere have generated the first temperature map of a “super-Earth” exoplanet, revealing an inhospitable world covered in rivers and lakes of boiling hot magma.
Arctic sea ice at lowest maximum for the second straight year
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- Written by Natasha Vizcarra, NSIDC
Boulder, Colorado - Arctic sea ice was at a record low maximum extent for the second straight year, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder and NASA.
To be sustainable, conservation needs to consider the human factor
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- Written by Eric Scigliano - Washington Sea Grant
Seattle, Washington - For too long, sustainability goals and environmental management have failed to consider the human side of conservation - how decisions affect people’s lives, and how human culture, values and equity affect conservation outcomes.
Personality influences how one reacts to email errors
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- Written by Jared Wadley
Ann Arbor, Michigan - When reading emails, do you become the "grammar police?"
Fire scars on the Alaskan tundra
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- Written by Brandi Klingerman
Notre Dame, Indiana - Nearly ten years ago, the largest recorded tundra fire in the Arctic, known as the Anaktuvuk River fire, was sparked by a lightning strike, burning its way across more than 400 square miles of the North Scope of Alaska. The fire released nearly as much carbon – a greenhouse gas – as the tundra had managed to store in the past 50 years.
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