Microbes Uncovered in Amazon Peatlands Could Alter Global Carbon Dynamics

Microbes Uncovered in Amazon Peatlands Could Alter Global Carbon Dynamics

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#news #newstoday #tech #technews #latestnews #techupdates #newsupdates Microscopic organisms, discovered in the tropical peatlands of Peru’s northwestern Amazon, have been identified as playing a significant role in influencing Earth’s climate. Researchers, in collaboration with local institutions, have revealed how these microbes contribute to the carbon cycle in ways that could…

Inside a Billion Loan Project, Led by World Bank, Aims to Expand Electricity in Africa
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Inside a $35 Billion Loan Project, Led by World Bank, Aims to Expand Electricity in Africa

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The leaders of more than half of Africa’s nations gathered this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s sprawling seaside metropolis, to commit to the biggest burst of spending on electric-power generation in Africa’s history. The World Bank, African Development Bank and others are…

Why Is It So Cold in the South If the Planet Is Warming? Here’s What We Know.
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Why Is It So Cold in the South If the Planet Is Warming? Here’s What We Know.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The unusual gust of frigid air extending down from the North Pole has brought the first-ever blizzard warning to southern Louisiana and grounded flights in Houston. The cold spell could blast the country with heavy snowfall from the Northeast down to the Gulf…

Airborne Lead and Chlorine Levels Soared as L.A. Wildfires Raged
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Airborne Lead and Chlorine Levels Soared as L.A. Wildfires Raged

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At the height of the Los Angeles County wildfires, atmospheric concentrations of lead, a neurotoxin, reached 100 times average levels even miles from the flames, according to early detailed measurements obtained by The New York Times. Levels of chlorine, which is also toxic…

Biden Administration Creates Final Limits for Oil Drillers in Alaska
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Biden Administration Creates Final Limits for Oil Drillers in Alaska

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Biden administration announced new protections for 1.3 million acres in the North Slope of Alaska, a final effort to shield it from oil companies eager to drill in the ecologically sensitive Arctic environment. President-elect Donald J. Trump returns to the White House…

Lee Zeldin, Trump’s E.P.A. Nominee, Is Short on Environmental Experience
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Lee Zeldin, Trump’s E.P.A. Nominee, Is Short on Environmental Experience

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Of all the government agencies that President-elect Donald J. Trump has threatened to shrink or eliminate, perhaps none has been a greater target than the Environmental Protection Agency. During the first Trump administration, the nation’s top regulator of air and water pollution and…

In a First, the E.P.A. Warns of ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Fertilizer
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In a First, the E.P.A. Warns of ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Fertilizer

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency has warned that “forever chemicals” present in sewage sludge that is used as fertilizer can pose human health risks, saying in a study on Tuesday that, in some cases, the risks could exceed the agency’s…

Opinion | The Old World Is Breaking Down. A New One Is Breaking Through.
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Opinion | The Old World Is Breaking Down. A New One Is Breaking Through.

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Fears of falling global fertility are to many on the right what climate change is to the left: the master problem of the age, the slow-moving crisis that is even now destabilizing societies. “Population collapse due to low birthrates is a much bigger…

Far From the Fires, the Deadly Risks of Smoke Are Intensifying
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Far From the Fires, the Deadly Risks of Smoke Are Intensifying

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines It kills more people each year than car crashes, war or drugs do. This invisible killer is the air pollution from sources like cars and trucks or factory smokestacks. But as wildfires intensify and grow more frequent in a warming world, the smoke…