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Dubai deluge likely made worse by warming world, scientists find

CBC 25 Apr 2024

A powerful rainstorm that wreaked havoc on the desert nation of the United Arab Emirates last week was likely made more intense because of climate change, a team of international scientists has found ... .

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Study says it’s likely a warmer world made deadly Dubai downpours heavier

Wtop 25 Apr 2024

And the researchers said those past deluges seem to be trending heavier — something scientists have long said would happen in many parts of the world as the world warms.

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How much trust do people have in different types of scientists?

Phys Dot Org 25 Apr 2024

Scientists are on the front lines of tackling some of the world's biggest challenges, from climate change and biodiversity loss to pandemics and social inequalities ... Participants were quizzed on how they see scientists with regard to.

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Study says it's likely a warmer world made deadly Dubai downpours heavier

Yahoo Daily News 25 Apr 2024

... that has come from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas since the mid-19th century, scientists at World Weather Attribution said Thursday in a flash study that is too new to be peer-reviewed.

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China, Germany strengthen barley research cooperation

Xinhua 25 Apr 2024

BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and German scientists are working closely to promote international collaboration on barley research, according to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).

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Battling climate change, Japan looks to seagrass for carbon capture

Asahi News 25 Apr 2024

Japan, the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, covers a surface area smaller than California but has some of the longest coastlines in the world ... dioxide it produces, scientists say.

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Vaccines are a glimmer of hope against malaria, but the battle has only just begun

AOL 25 Apr 2024

In the quest for a vaccine, scientists have faced a Herculean challenge ... Moreover, successfully distributing the vaccine at scale in some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities will require overcoming considerable logistical barriers.

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Solar geoengineering to cool the planet: Is it worth the risks?

Phys Dot Org 25 Apr 2024

Some scientists claim using MCB over just 5% of world's oceans could offset the impacts of global warming ... In 2022, 500 scientists from around the world signed a call for an International Non-Use ...

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Is UK's worst ever rain linked to 'scary' unexplained warming of Atlantic?

AOL 25 Apr 2024

Temperatures in the world’s oceans ... Dr Kulbrodt is not the only scientist concerned about warming water temperatures around the world ... "That's an uncomfortable place as a scientist to be.".

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Emperor penguins suffered mass breeding failures in 2023 amid record low sea ice

Philenews 25 Apr 2024

Record low sea ice in late 2023 led to breeding failures in one-fifth of Antarctica’s emperor penguin colonies, scientists with the British Antarctic Survey said on Thursday ... Still, scientists ...

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Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of UAE floods, study finds

The Guardian 25 Apr 2024

Scientists from the World Weather Attribution team said downpours in El Niño years, such as this one, had ...

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Escape the vapes: Scientists call for global shift to curb consumer use of disposable technologies

Phys Dot Org 25 Apr 2024

Scientists have called for a concerted global effort to stem the tide of disposable electronic technologies—such as vapes—contributing to international waste accumulation and environmental degradation.

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Scientists say Oman, UAE deluge ‘most likely’ linked to climate change

Al Jazeera 25 Apr 2024

The World Weather Attribution (WWA), an international group of scientists that investigates extreme weather events, said climate change caused by fossil fuel emissions is the probable reason but cannot be pinpointed “with certainty”.Keep reading.

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Is there a planet outside the solar system? This is what science says – teach ...

The Cleveland American 25 Apr 2024

... (WISE) and Pan-STARRS, were unable to discover a planet that matches scientists' hypotheses, they do not rule out the existence of a world with a dimension similar to the dimension of one ice.

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Hybrid Brains With Both Rat And Mouse Cells Created In Landmark Double First

IFL Science 25 Apr 2024

In a world first, two teams of scientists have independently created hybrid brain tissue with cells from two species ... The scientists behind this work have an important goal in mind ... “There are over 2,000 living rodent species in the world.