ENVIRONMENT:
NEWS IN BRIEF
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PLANKTON AND FISH REACT TO CLIMATE CHANGE
A NEW DUCK-BILLED DINOSAUR
Global simulations suggest plankton and fish species are showing resilience to climate change by going deeper underwater or moving to higher latitudes.
Kamuysaurus japonicus, whose nearly complete skeleton was unearthed from 72-million-year-old marine deposits in Mukawa Town in northern Japan, belongs to a new genus and is a new species of herbivorous hadrosaurid dinosaur. Credit: Kyoungchae Kim, Public Relations Team, UNIST
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WORLD’S LARGEST BEE, THOUGHT EXTINCT, REDISCOVERED IN THE WILD
Researchers develop a low-cost thermoelectric material made of tin and selenium that efficiently converts waste heat into electricity with ten times higher electrical properties than a previous study.
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With an estimated wingspan of two and a half inches, Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile pluto) is the world’s largest bee. First described by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858, the bee had been lost to science since 1981. A single female bee was found and photographed in 2019, in an undisclosed location in the North Moluccas islands of Indonesia.
THIN FILM CONVERTS WASTE HEAT INTO ELECTRICITY
STRONG WINTER DUST STORMS MAY HAVE CAUSED THE COLLAPSE OF ANCIENT EMPIRE
Fossil coral records provide new evidence that frequent winter dust storms and a prolonged cold winter season contributed to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, which existed from 24th to 22nd century B.C.E. The 4,100-year-old coral fossil (pictured) was collected in Oman, downwind of the Mesopotamia region.
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STUDY OFFERS VERDICT FOR CHINA’S EFFORTS ON COAL EMISSIONS
China’s efforts on emission reductions, air quality improvement and human health protection were effective. Similar measures could be used in countries such as India to help them reduce emissions alongside rapid economic growth.
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