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80,000 scientists call for protection of surface waters
Over 80,000 scientists from 111 scientific societies studying aquatic ecosystems have pleaded for immediate action to protect surface waters 'to avoid calamitous consequences' from anthropogenic climate change.
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Europe's rivers far more fragmented than thought and pose a danger to biodiversity, says new study
Europe could have some of the most fragmented rivers in the world, with 77,000 artificial barriers in Poland alone.
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Peatlands are ticking carbon BOMBS, say scientists
Peatlands are changing from CO2 absorbers to CO2 emitters, releasing 5 to 10 percent of the annual anthropogenic load of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, says a leading peat bog researcher. And yet they still are not included in climate change models.
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Knights of Malta changed Lubusz ecosystem 700 years ago, says new research
Knights from the 14th century Order of Malta had a profound affect on the ecosystem in Poland’s Lubusz region, scientists have found.
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Breath-taking photos taken from space capture planet Earth in all its beauty in online competition
The image of the area on the border of Canada and Greenland has been selected the most beautiful satellite photo of the Earth taken from space (from the CREODIAS.eu platform) in the competition 'Seize the beauty of our planet'.
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It’s Snow Joke! Svalbard glaciers increasingly prone to melting, say scientists
Glaciers on the Svalbard archipelago are increasingly more likely to melt because of a lack of compacted snow, scientists have found.
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Migration caused by drought to increase within Europe, says expert
Migrations caused by drought take place not only in Africa or the Middle East, but also within Europe. Population movements related to no access to water will intensify in the coming years, argues Dr. Karolina Sobczak-Szelc from the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw.
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Walking on thin ice! Disappearing Arctic ice to increase extreme events worldwide
Every decade, 13 percent of sea ice in the northern hemisphere is irretrievably lost. In a few dozen years it may completely disappear in the summer. Its reduced range in the northern hemisphere causes further climate changes and extreme weather phenomena on Earth, an expert from the Polish Academy of Sciences says.
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Scorching Siberian temperatures disrupt peatland ecosystem, warns scientist
Large amounts of carbon dioxide could be released into the atmosphere following Siberia’s blistering summer temperatures.
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