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Earth
Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, shows clear warning signs ahead of eruption in 2022
People look at lava from Mauna Loa volcano near Hilo, Hawaii, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File Scientists can’t know exactly when a volcano will erupt, but they can spot telltale signs. It happened two years ago at the world’s largest active volcano. About two months before Mauna Loa spewed a river of glowing orange lava, geologists…
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Environment
Scientists review 7,000 studies on microplastics, and their startling conclusions are a warning to humanity
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It’s been 20 years since the journal Science published a paper showing the accumulation of tiny plastic fragments and fibres in the environment, particles that the journal dubbed “microplastics”. This paper opened up an entirely new field of research, and since then, over 7,000 studies have been published demonstrating the pervasiveness of microplastics in the environment,…
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