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Dangerous spiders in Europe: How worried should we really be?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If you were asked to name a place where venomous animals live, what comes to mind? Perhaps Australia, home to notorious snakes like the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), or terrifying creatures like the yellow scorpion (Tityus serrulatus) It may be Brazil, where it lives. But Europe is not known for its menacing fauna, so it will…
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Climate change will intensify drought in central and southern Europe in 2022, study finds
Soil moisture deviation (in standard deviation units) for the summer of 2022 compared to a normal summer. The pink dots indicate where 2022 was the driest summer since 1960. Credit: UFZ The drought, which lasted until the summer of 2022, was particularly severe, causing soils to become significantly drier in many parts of Europe. Public debate about the causes has…
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