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ENVIRONMENT
How will more rainfall drive eutrophication?
Estuary managers will have to account for increased and more extreme precipitation driven by climate change. According to a new study in Science, rainfall will raise nutrient loading in U.S. waterways by up to 19 percent by 2100, with biggest impacts in the Midwest and Northeast.
A study in Nature Communications focuses on extreme marine heat in an area east of Tasmania that has risen in temperature four times faster than the global average.
NOAA forecast a larger-than-average dead zone in June, but oxygen conditions appear better than predicted. Is this due to other environmental factors or incomplete data?
Half of all plastic has been made in past 13 years
A analysis shows plastic production has ramped up quickly in recent decades, and 79 percent of plastic waste is in landfills or the environment, including oceans.
Swedish uni signs deal for high-tech autonomous lab
The University of Gothenburg’s new AUV (Automated Underwater Vehicle) can dive beneath Antarctic glaciers for surveys or to chart the climate of millennia past.
@V_Fugere on Twitter shared this photo of a miniDOT being tested at @LEAP_Sci Large Experimental Array of Ponds at McGill University, Quebec.
@ARMcMormick shared this pic of two proud researchers posing with a miniDOT – with “custom housing unit” – ready to take a dip in Iceland’s Lake Myvatn.
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