Uganda Science News API

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            "title": "Salt, microplastics, and extreme heat destroy urban soil health",
            "description": "Salt, microplastics, and rising temperatures are silently degrading urban soil health, and weakening the resilience of cities.",
            "content": "Salt, plastic dust, and rising heat affect city soil health, but the damage stays hidden until the soil’s functions start failing.\nWhen soil stops breathing and soaking up water, streets flood faster and urban plants lose support that keeps neighborh... [4958 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.earth.com/news/salt-plastic-and-extreme-heat-destroy-urban-soil-health/",
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                "name": "Earth.com",
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            "title": "300-million-year-old brain rhythm links humans, birds, and lizards",
            "description": "While lizards sleep, a slow, invisible rhythm quietly links their brains with the rest of the body.",
            "content": "Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but quiet. Neurons pulse, blood flows, and hidden rhythms rise and fall like slow ocean tides.\nFor decades, scientists believed that one of the slowest of these rhythms, called... [5325 chars]",
            "url": "https://interestingengineering.com/culture/infraslow-brain-rhythm-in-lizards",
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            "title": "High-resolution geomechanical modeling reveals accelerating infrastructure risks from permafrost degradation in Northern Alaska",
            "description": "Permafrost degradation causes irreversible damage to Arctic civil infrastructure and threatens the broader pan-Arctic economy. Currently, the lack of community-scale, geomechanics-based mapping of Arctic infrastructure geohazards hinders effective local infrastructure planning. Here, we develop a framework that integrates physics-constrained geotechnical models with a process-based ground thermal model to assess the 21st century changes in thaw settlement and bearing capacity of civil infrastructure foundations at a 30-meter spatial resolution. We find that settlement is accelerating and bearing capacity is decreasing nonlinearly at both regional and local scales. By mid-century, less than 10% of the infrastructure in northern Alaska is projected to be at risk; however, a transition window emerges between the 2060 s and 2080 s. During this transition period, infrastructure risk will increase sharply, and most infrastructures are projected to be at risk. Our results underscore the urgent need for proactive adaptation strategies to protect Arctic infrastructure from permafrost degradation-induced geohazards. Accelerating ground settlement and reduced bearing capacity poses a critical threat to essential infrastructure due to permafrost degradation in Northern Alaska, according to integrated physics-constrained geotechnical model and process-based ground thermal modeling system.",
            "content": "Rantanen, M. et al. The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979. Commun. Earth Environ. 3, 168 (2022).\nBiskaborn, B. K. et al. Permafrost is warming at a global scale. Nat. Commun. 10, 264 (2019).\nSmith, S. L., O’Neill, H... [8917 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03240-5?error=cookies_not_supported&code=31f4c92b-de65-46ef-bbe6-78e76fed3fb6",
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