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sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: The most extensive and densely populated breeding colony of fish anywhere lurks deep underneath the ice of the Weddell Sea, scientists aboard an Antarctic research cruise have discovered. The 240 square ki…

Ground temperatures climbed above 129 degrees Fahrenheit (54 degrees Celsius) in parts of Argentina this week as the country suffers through a shockingly hot start to summer. Air temperatures were equally suffocating, leading to widespread blackouts as…

The conglomerate led by Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, announced plans to invest $76 billion toward clean energy projects, dwarfing an earlier commitment of $10 billion by the world’s biggest fossil-fuel billionaire. From a report: Reliance Industr…

Last year saw the hottest ocean temperatures in recorded history, the sixth consecutive year that this record has been broken, according to new research. The Guardian reports: The heating up of our oceans is being primarily driven by the human-caused c…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The gorse bushes that have invaded many Scottish landscapes could produce enough protein to feed millions of people, according to the leader of a Scottish government research program. The surprisin…

As snowstorms sweep the East Coast of the United States this week, transportation officials have deployed a go-to solution for keeping winter roads clear: salt. From a report: But while pouring tons of salt on roads makes winter driving safer, it also …

東京都の小池百合子知事は2021年12月7日の都議会本会議で、「新築建築物への太陽光発電設備の設置を標準化し、ゼロエミッション東京の実現を目指す」と発言、新築一戸建て住宅に太陽光発電設備の設置を義務付ける条例制定を目指すと発表した。同様の義務化は過去に国でも検討したことがあるが、住宅価格の上昇を懸念する声が強いことから見送られた経緯がある。都は有識者検討会の議論を踏まえた内容を4月ごろに公表する方針（東京新聞）。

都の検討案では、設置を義務づける対象者を住宅供給メーカーなど事業者に絞るのが特徴。…

The wind-whipped firestorm that tore through parts of Boulder County, Colorado, on Thursday struck at the heart of one of America’s top climate science and meteorology research hubs. From a report: Now some of the top minds who study how climate change…

The experimental process of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in oceans could help limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, explain Romany Webb and Michael B. Gerrard, both of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Colu…

A team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany has discovered a whopping 77 seafloor-dwelling species beneath an Antarctica ice shelf — a hint that this mysterious realm may be far more biologically rich than scientists realized. F…