What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of August 12, 2021

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Thu, 12 Aug 2021
Southeastern U.S. herbaria digitize 3 million specimens, now freely available online

Effort involved more than 100 herbaria spread out across the southeastern United States

A network of more than 100 herbaria, or collections of plant specimens, spread out across the southeastern United States recently completed the herculean task of fully digitizing more than 3 million specimens collected by botanists and naturalists over a span of 200

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Thu, 12 Aug 2021
Scientists evaluate the evidence for an intensifying Indian Ocean water cycle

Indian Ocean has been warming much more than other oceans over the last half-century

The Indian Ocean has been warming much more than other ocean basins over the last 50 to 60 years, scientists have found. While temperature changes basin-wide can be attributed to human-induced climate change, it’s difficult to assess whether contemporary heat and freshwater

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