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Almost Half of All Life on Earth ‘Declining Towards Extinction’ – Queen’s Boffins Find

Almost half of all life on Earth is “declining towards extinction… putting human wellbeing under increasing threat”, a grim new report from Queen’s University Belfast has found. The work was led by PhD student Catherine Finn and Dr Daniel Pincheira-Donoso from Queen’s School of Biological Sciences alongside Dr Florencia Grattarola from the Czech University of […]

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Billion-dollar NASA satellite launches to track Earth’s water

SWOT satellite will bounce radar off water bodies to give scientists a new window into climate change and the global water cycle. From swirling ocean eddies that help shape the global climate to millions of lakes and rivers, scientists are about to get an unprecedented view of Earth’s water. The US$1.2-billion Surface Water and Ocean […]

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