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January 24, 2025
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Jan. 24, 2025 — Researchers have identified an unknown family of microbes uniquely adapted to the waterlogged, low-oxygen conditions of tropical peatlands in Peru's northwestern Amazonian rainforest. The new ...
Jan. 21, 2025 — The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, reached historic low levels in 2022, raising economic, ecological and public health concerns for Utah. New research is believed to be the first peer-reviewed study that ...
Jan. 21, 2025 — Marine scientists highlights the complex interplay between heat stress, disease onset and coral mortality. They found that 66 percent of the colonies were bleached by February 2024 and 80 per cent by ...
Jan. 21, 2025 — Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground at Earth's natural heat and forces to cook up ammonia for fertilizer. In a proof-of-concept study, researchers generated ...
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Jan. 24, 2025 — A research team has made significant discoveries regarding the complex reaction mechanisms of carbon dioxide (CO2) in supercritical water. These ...
Jan. 23, 2025 — Shallow coastal waters are hotspots for methane emissions, releasing significant amounts of this potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming. This new research ...
Jan. 17, 2025 — Salt pollution from road deicing salts threatens freshwater ecosystems and urban green infrastructure. New research on salt-tolerant plants like cattails highlights their potential role in mitigating ...
Jan. 17, 2025 — Atmospheric scientists show proposed 'geoengineering' effort to remove methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere could worse air quality while providing minimal climate ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — DDT soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers have developed a new method to manage ecological risks from the toxin by binding it with biochar. When they mixed ...
Jan. 13, 2025 — Wildfires increasingly threaten public drinking water systems, but guidance on how to address damage to these systems from a wildfire has been ...
Jan. 13, 2025 — In a significant step toward creating a sustainable and circular economy, researchers have demonstrated that carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers can be ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — New research reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO2-rich climate can dramatically alter how grasslands use and move water. The study provides the first experimental demonstration of ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — In an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study, an international team examined the social risks for Arctic regions associated with thawing permafrost. They identified five key risks related to ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that changes in clouds are slightly mitigating global warming. While greenhouse gases continue to cause temperatures to rise, a reduction in low-cloud cover over land has ...
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Jan. 16, 2025 — Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a new study. This publicly available forty-year global quantitative inventory ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — A new study has revealed the alarming extent glaciers have shrunk over the past 40 years in a global warming hotspot -- and the biggest retreat has occurred in recent ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has not slowed down since the mid-20th century based on the North Atlantic air-sea heat fluxes over that time. This finding contrasts with ...
Jan. 13, 2025 — Bats depend on open bodies of water such as small ponds and lakes for foraging and drinking. Access to water is particularly important for survival in the increasingly hot and dry summers caused by ...
Jan. 13, 2025 — The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging ...
Jan. 9, 2025 — A new study provides the first comprehensive global estimates of the amount of water stored in Earth's plants and the amount of time it takes for that water to flow through them. The information ...
Jan. 9, 2025 — Current state policies aren't enough to curb food waste. Study shows states are falling short of the reduction goals set by the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
Jan. 9, 2025 — Hydroclimate whiplash -- rapid swings between intensely wet and dangerously dry weather -- has already increased globally due to climate change, with further large increases expected as warming ...
Jan. 9, 2025 — An international team of scientists has called for the creation of an 18th addition to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which would aim to mitigate against the accumulation of space ...
Jan. 7, 2025 — Researchers have created a simulation that maps underground water on a continental scale. The result of three years' work studying groundwater from coast to coast, the findings plot the unseen ...
Jan. 7, 2025 — If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer birdsong, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere, where ...
Jan. 7, 2025 — The Great Salt Lake has lost more than 15 billion cubic yards of water over the past three decades, is getting shallower at the rate of 4 inches a year, and an analysis of its water budget suggests ...
Jan. 6, 2025 — Scientists say the frozen remnants of an ancient forest discovered 600 feet above the modern tree line on the Beartooth Plateau may portend possible changes for the alpine ecosystem if the climate ...
Jan. 6, 2025 — Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive development of children. Scientists have previously used atmospheric ...
Jan. 6, 2025 — 2024 was another year of record-breaking temperatures, driving the global water cycle to new climate extremes and contributing to ferocious floods and crippling droughts, a new report shows. The ...
Jan. 3, 2025 — Scientists have developed a copper catalyst that can efficiently convert carbon dioxide into acetaldehyde, a key chemical used in manufacturing. The breakthrough offers a green alternative to ...
Jan. 3, 2025 — Farmers are receiving less of what consumers spend on food, as modern food systems increasingly direct costs toward value-added components like processing, transport, and marketing. A study shows ...
Jan. 2, 2025 — A research team has shown wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) can be both sustainable and ...
Jan. 2, 2025 — A new study investigating ancient methane trapped in Antarctic ice suggests that global increases in wildfire activity likely occurred during periods of abrupt climate change throughout the last Ice ...
Dec. 26, 2024 — Artificial light can wake sleeping fish and attract predators, changing nighttime coral reef communities, according to new research using novel underwater infrared ...
Thursday, January 16, 2025
- The Megadroughts Are Upon Us
- Pioneering Research Exposes Huge Loss of Glaciers in One of the Fastest-Warming Places on Earth
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Monday, January 13, 2025
- Wind Turbines Impair the Access of Bats to Water Bodies in Agricultural Landscapes
- From Microplastics to Macro-Impact: Plastic Recycling Challenges
Thursday, January 9, 2025
- Rapid Return of Water from Ground to Atmosphere Through Plants
- States Struggle to Curb Food Waste Despite Policies
- Floods, Droughts, Then Fires: Hydroclimate Whiplash Is Speeding Up Globally
- A Sustainable Development Goal for Space?
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
- New Research Reveals Groundwater Pathways Across Continent
- Earth's Air War: Explaining the Delayed Rise of Plants, Animals on Land
- Reducing Irrigation for Livestock Feed Crops Is Needed to Save Great Salt Lake, Study Argues
Monday, January 6, 2025
- Ice Patches on Beartooth Plateau Reveal How Ancient Landscape Differed from Today's
- Lead Pollution Likely Caused Widespread IQ Declines in Ancient Rome, New Study Finds
- Climate Extremes in 2024 'wreaking Havoc' On the Global Water Cycle
Friday, January 3, 2025
- From Carbon Dioxide to Acetaldehyde: Toward Greener Industrial Chemistry
- Growing Divide: Agricultural Climate Policies Affect Food Prices Differently in Poor and Wealthy Countries
Thursday, January 2, 2025
- Big Leap Forward for Environmentally Friendly 'e-Textiles' Technology
- Increased Wildfire Activity May Be a Feature of Past Periods of Abrupt Climate Change
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Monday, December 23, 2024
- Researchers Find Compromised Indoor Air in Homes Following Marshall Fire
- Months After Colorado's Marshall Fire, Residents of Surviving Homes Reported Health Symptoms, Poor Air Quality
- Paleobiologists Unlock 500,000 Years of Fossil Records: Climate Change Impacts and Risks of Marine Carbon Removal
Friday, December 20, 2024
- Dripstones Offer Insights Into Climate Dynamics in Europe
- ESA and NASA Satellites Deliver First Joint Picture of Greenland Ice Sheet Melting
- Construction Materials and Household Items Are a Part of a Long-Term Carbon Sink Called the 'technosphere'
Thursday, December 19, 2024
- Changes in Store for Atmospheric Rivers
- Study Uses Remote Sensing to Monitor Plastic Debris in Rivers and Lakes
- Scientists Solving Meteorological Mysteries on Mars
- New Study Highlights the Correlation Between Live Corals and Fishing Yields
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- For Optimal Marathon Performance, Check Training Plan, Gear, Nutrition, Weather -- And Air Quality?
- Microplastics in the Air May Be Leading to Lung and Colon Cancers
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- How Loss of Urban Trees Affects Educational Outcomes
- Step Forward in Generating Solar-Powered Hydrogen
- The Social Cost of Carbon, a Crucial Tool for Setting Climate Policy, Omits Key Effects
- Prehistoric Rock in Japan Reveals Clues to Major Ocean Anoxic Event
- Hyperspectral Imaging Lidar System Achieves Remote Plastic Identification
Monday, December 16, 2024
- Electric Vehicle Transition Could Create Unwanted Air Pollution Hotspots in China and India
- Scientists Can Now Predict How Climate Change Will Alter Plant Growth Cycles
Friday, December 13, 2024
- New Device Produces Critical Fertilizer Ingredient from Thin Air, Cutting Carbon Emissions
- Image Tool to Help AI Scour Wildlife Shots for Climate Change Clues
- Exposure to Remote Wildfire Smoke Drifting Across the US Linked to Increased Medical Visits for Heart and Lung Problems
Thursday, December 12, 2024
- New Chemical Structures Show Vastly Improved Carbon Capture Ability
- As Wildfires Intensify, Prolonged Exposure to Pollution Linked to Premature Death
- How the Dirt Under Our Feet Could Affect Human Health
- Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Bacteria Hold Key to Understanding Nitrous Oxide Reduction
- Researchers Reveal Key Factors Behind Japan's Plastic Waste Removal Rates in Rivers
- Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Blood Clots in Veins That Bring Blood to the Heart
- Water and Forests in Southern US
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- Air Pollution in India Linked to Millions of Deaths
- Researchers Harness Copper Versatility to Enable Control of CO2 Reduction Products
- Recycling Human, Animal Excreta Reduces Need for Fertilizers
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
- Seals Strategically Scoot Around the Seas on Icebergs
- Aerosol Pollutants from Cooking May Last Longer in the Atmosphere
- Wrong Trees in the Wrong Place Can Make Cities Hotter at Night, Study Reveals
- AI Predicts That Most of the World Will See Temperatures Rise to 3°C Much Faster Than Previously Expected
- AI Predicts Earth's Peak Warming
- Tourism Leads the Pack in Growing Carbon Emissions
Monday, December 9, 2024
Friday, December 6, 2024
- Neem Seed Extract Improves Effectiveness of Pesticide
- Record-Low Antarctic Sea Ice Can Be Explained and Forecast Months out by Patterns in Winds
- How Do Marine Food Webs Respond to Increasing Alkalinity?
- Autonomous Imaging Robot Plays a Crucial Role in Assessing Embryos' Response to Environmental Change
- Impact Studies Should Include High-Sensitivity Climate Models
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Rapid Surge in Global Warming Mainly Due to Reduced Planetary Albedo
- Climate Change Threatens Global Food Supply: Scientists Call for Urgent Action
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- After Decades of Plantation Agriculture, Coconut Palms Dominate Over Half of Pacific Atoll Forests
- Massive Asteroid Impacts Did Not Change Earth's Climate in the Long Term
- A Catalyst Can Turn Methane Into Something Useful
- Climate-Ready Crop
- AI Helps Researchers Dig Through Old Maps to Find Lost Oil and Gas Wells
- Rainforest Emissions Linked With New Particle Formation at High Altitudes
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
- Can Plastic-Eating Bugs Help With Our Microplastic Problem?
- Countdown to an Ice-Free Arctic: New Research Warns of Accelerated Timelines
- Building Green and Blue Spaces, Such as Parks, in New Communities Is Crucial for Cleaner Air
- Regional, Racial, and Economic Disparities in Cancer Risk from Air Pollution Exposure Persist, but Improving, New Research Suggests
- Streams Near Farms Emit High Levels of Greenhouse Gas
- Overlooked Emissions in California's Salton Sea Air Basin
Monday, December 2, 2024
- Climate Change Could Bring More Severe Bacterial Infections, Including in Corals
- Warming Temperatures May Shrink Wetland Carbon Sinks
Friday, November 29, 2024
- Fine Particulate Air Pollution May Play a Role in Adverse Birth Outcomes
- The Melting of Greenland: A Climate Challenge With Major Implications for the 21st Century
Thursday, November 28, 2024
- Coral Adaptation Unlikely to Keep Pace With Global Warming
- Chemical Replacement of TNT Explosive More Harmful to Plants, Study Shows
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
- Global Food Yields Have Grown Steadily During Last Six Decades, Study Finds
- Oceans Emit Sulfur and Cool the Climate More Than Previously Thought
- Making a Difference: Efficient Water Harvesting from Air Possible
- Shells, Teeth and Bones of 'weird and Wonderful Organisms' Provide Historical Environmental Clues
- Unexplained Heat-Wave 'hotspots' Are Popping Up Across the Globe
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
- Enhancing Seaglider Technology to Measure Carbon Dioxide
- Two-Way Water Transfers Can Ensure Reliability, Save Money for Urban and Agricultural Users During Drought in Western U.S.
- Predicting the Weather: New Meteorology Estimation Method Aids Building Efficiency
- Researchers Show Complex Relationship Between Arctic Warming and Arctic Dust
- Air Fryers Confirmed as Least Polluting Cooking Method
- Oil Spill Still Contaminating Sensitive Mauritius Mangroves Three Years On, Study Finds
- Quantum Mechanism Identified as a Key to Accelerating Ocean Temperatures
Monday, November 25, 2024
- Crayfish Map Gives Conservation a Helping Claw
- Research Links Wildfire Smoke Exposure With Increased Dementia Risk