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Shining a light on the secret life of carbon dioxide in cells
- Feb 23, 2026
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) connects us to the natural world: What we breathe out becomes fuel for forests. But inside our own bodies, CO₂ has a secret life....
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Germany's coastal regions brace for change, fearing rising sea levels
- Feb 23, 2026
Standing on the coast and looking out to sea, you cannot detect the changes with the naked eye. But in northern Germany, sea levels are rising, as is...
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Study uncovers how schools circumvent suspension bans
- Feb 23, 2026
New research emerging from SFUSD's Shoestrings program reveals informal exclusionary discipline is a widespread problem—but there are solutions. When...
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Artificial rivers and lakes can help keep freshwater mussel populations afloat
- Feb 23, 2026
Researchers at Murdoch University have found that artificial waterbodies could play a crucial role in slowing the decline of Carter's freshwater musse...
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New evidence shows indoor plants can quietly reshape the health and quality of our homes and workplaces
- Feb 23, 2026
Houseplants and more advanced plant systems, such as indoor living walls and hydroponic towers, have the potential to raise indoor humidity, boost the...
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Earth's mantle may have been cooler than thought before Pangea's breakup
- Feb 23, 2026
When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new...
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Breadcrumbs offer fossil fuel–free production of everyday goods
- Feb 23, 2026
The humble breadcrumb could hold the key to cutting out fossil fuels from one of the chemical industry's most widely used reactions, according to a ne...
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Peatland lakes in Congo Basin release carbon that is thousands of years old
- Feb 23, 2026
Researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered for the first time that large blackwater lakes in the extensive peatlands of the central Congo Basin are...
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Globe-trotting ancient 'sea-salamander' fossils rediscovered from Australia's dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs
- Feb 23, 2026
Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehisto...
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Study finds warming world increases days when weather is prone to fires around the globe
- Feb 23, 2026
The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy—ideal to spark extreme wildfires—has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe,...
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Elevated E. coli, staph still detected in Potomac river 4 weeks after sewage spill
- Feb 23, 2026
Nearly a month after a wastewater pipe broke and spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River just north of Washington,...
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How shaming unethical brands makes companies improve their behavior
- Feb 22, 2026
Recent investigations have uncovered forced labor in agricultural supply chains, illegal fishing feeding supermarket freezers, deforestation embedded...