Many insects in Africa are likely to face dangerous levels of heat stress, with serious consequences for ecosystems.
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Fires here can affect meltwater timing and water quality, worsen erosion that triggers mudslides, and much more, as two scientists explain.
Everest didn’t become the highest mountain overnight. This process was excruciatingly slow; a result of complex interactions between the solid earth, the atmosphere and the biosphere.
The tides come in, the tides come out. But what is a sea’s level? Technology has evolved since we first started gauging the height of the ocean in comparison to the land.
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Distinguished Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University; United Nations University
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Honorary Fellow in Structural Geology and Tectonics, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate in Climate Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg, at the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg