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    • Arctic Ocean: Greater Future acidification in summer

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      of 2015, Germany and the global community agreed to limit anthropogenic global warming to less than 2°C. But that goal can only be reached if both national and international agreements are adhered to

    • Drought risk in the Northern Hemisphere rises with intensified warming

      Climate Change
      Over the next few decades, anthropogenic climate change and the resultant changes in the global water cycle will produce a significant rise in drought frequency in the

    • Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo

      for researchers. After all, factoring in the effects of anthropogenic influences like the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, of the weather phenomenon El Niño, and of natural events

    • MUSES

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    • Antarctica InSync

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    • BioDiv

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    • Past Climate Change

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