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UH Scientists Discover 10 New Species of Hawaiian Moths

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers identified 10 new species and seven new groups (genera) of Hawaiian leaf-roller moths.

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$4.6M to Restore Coral Reef in American Samoa

A new $4.6–million multi-institute collaborative project to help grow coral restoration capacity in American Samoa will begin in early 2026, leveraging more than two decades of coral heat tolerance studies to inform a restoration with resilience approach.

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A.I. Weather Models Fell Short in Predicting Northeastern Blizzard

While artificial intelligence has ushered in a new era of more accurate weather forecasting, A.I. models may still struggle to predict freak storms.

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More Trees Where They Matter, Please

One of the best forms of heat relief is pretty simple: trees.

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This Special Solar Cell System Produces Both Electricity and Heat

The solar cells in the large pilot plant are a full five metres high and consist of many mirrors that are angled towards the solar cells to concentrate sunlight.

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A Vision for Water Must Match the Reality We Face - Not Just the Rhetoric

The UK government’s publication of A New Vision for Water represents the most significant attempt at water policy reform in decades - arguably since privatisation itself.

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A Solution That Could Reduce Aviation Emissions by up to 30 Percent

In the future, regional flights such as Trondheim-Oslo could become much more environmentally friendly with the help of a hybrid aircraft engine.

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Storms and Shifting Sands – Assessing the Ocean’s Impact on Start Bay

Experts have warned that extensive storm damage caused to one of South Devon’s most iconic routes is likely to become more frequent as global sea levels rise and the impacts of extreme wave events increases.

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New Research Forecasts the Impacts of Fire on Birds

Up to 30% of bird diversity hotspots, places where large numbers of different bird species occur, in the western United States face threats from high-severity wildfires in the future that could eliminate critical forest habitats, according to new research published in the journal Nature Communications.

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Higher Water Levels Could Turn Cultivated Peatland in the North Into a CO2 Sink

A two year field experiment carried out in the world’s northernmost cultivated peatland, located in Pasvik in Finnmark, shows that greenhouse gas emissions can be greatly reduced by raising and maintaining the water table at 25–50 centimetres below the soil surface.

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