Category: Climate & Environment
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Prenatal air pollution linked to lower toddler language and motor scores
This research indicates that higher air pollution exposure during pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, is associated with lower language scores in toddlerhood and worse motor scores in preterm infants.
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FORESCEM simulates fine-scale land use and land cover change
This research indicates that FORESCEM can spatially simulate fine-scale future land use and land cover changes and reproduce different scenario trajectories in a French case study.
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Fault heterogeneity and restrengthening explain Tohoku-Oki rupture complexity
This research indicates that the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake's complex rupture could emerge from rapid coseismic frictional restrengthening and data-informed fault heterogeneity.
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Numerical tests suggest stability carries over to discontinuous media
This research indicates that numerical methods for the wave equation may remain stable when the medium has a jump discontinuity, although the computations become much more demanding.
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Ordovician plutonism in the Ötztal Complex is dated more precisely
This research indicates that the Ötztal Complex records Ediacaran to Ordovician tectonic evolution, with younger Cenerian orogeny timing in the proto-Alps than in other Cadomian terranes.
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AQHI tracked multi-pollutant health risks better than AQI in Taiwan
This research indicates that the Air Quality Health Index, which combines daily particulate matter 2.5, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide levels, was a more sensitive short-term health-relevant measure than the Air Quality Index during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rising temperatures are linked to more physical inactivity
This research indicates that rising temperatures are projected to increase physical inactivity, with additional deaths and productivity losses, especially in tropical regions.
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Ancient DNA traces a pre-Inca trans-Andean parrot trade
This research indicates that feathers in a pre-Inca tomb came from wild Amazonian parrots that were transported across the Andes and kept on the coast.
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Sampling methods captured cyanobacteria unevenly in the Salish Sea estuary
This research indicates that the sampling protocol could distinguish large-cell eukaryotic organisms, but picocyanobacteria size fractionation was affected by free DNA, multicellular structures, and abundant tycheposons.
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Tree-ring data matched long-term plantation growth records
This research indicates that tree-ring data can reproduce diameter and biomass growth trajectories in Retrophyllum rospigliosii plantations and help fill gaps in long-term forest monitoring.
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