• How do human impacts on wetlands affect animals?

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  A new Biological Reviews study provides a comprehensive assessment of how changes to wetlands affect animals, and the authors use their findings to provide recommendations for managing wetlands to maximise their biodiversity.

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  Threatened Amazon reserve already being mined: Greenpeace

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  A huge nature reserve in Brazil's Amazon rainforest that the government wants to open to foreign mining companies already suffers from illegal mining activity, Greenpeace said Tuesday.

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  End-of-summer Arctic sea ice extent is eighth lowest on record

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  Arctic sea ice appeared to have reached its yearly lowest extent on Sept. 13, NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder have reported. Analysis of satellite ...

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  NASA sees Tropical Depression Norma's small area of strength

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  Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite has revealed that the area of strongest storms within now Tropical Depression Norma has diminished.

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  NASA data shows Otis devoid of precipitation, now a remnant

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  Former Hurricane Otis was not showing any thunderstorm development or precipitation on satellite imagery on Sept. 19. As a result, the National Hurricane Center declared Otis a remnant low pressure area.

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  NASA looks within category 5 Hurricane Maria before and after first landfall

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  Satellite data is enabling forecasters to look inside and outside of powerful Hurricane Maria. A NASA animation of satellite imagery shows Hurricane Maria's first landfall on the island of Dominica. NASA's GPM satellite provided ...

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  NASA tracking Jose meandering off US East Coast

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  Jose has been a named storm for nearly two weeks now as it continues to slowly move northward off the U.S. East Coast east of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. NASA's GPM satellite and NOAA's GOES East satellites have provided ...

• UK oil and gas reserves may last only a decade, study suggests

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  The Scottish and UK oil industries are entering their final decade of production, research suggests.

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  Small quake rattles nerves, causes no damage in Los Angeles

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  Los Angeles was jolted by a small earthquake that rattled nerves and got people talking on social media, but didn't cause any major damage.

• Harvard forest report: Forests, funding, and conservation in decline across New England

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  New England has been losing forestland to development at a rate of 65 acres per day, according to a new report released today by the Harvard Forest, a research institute of Harvard University, and a team of authors from across ...