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June 5, 2024
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June 3, 2024 — Marine conservation scientists advocate for a cultural shift in academia that fosters deeper connections with places of study and encourages collaboration with local communities to make science more ...
June 3, 2024 — New research has found evidence that fresh water on Earth, which is essential for life, appeared about four billion years ago -- five hundred million years earlier than previously ...
June 5, 2024 — A collaborative team of researchers has made a cracking discovery with the potential to make a significant impact in the sustainable recovery of rare earth elements (REEs), which are in increasing ...
June 4, 2024 — Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.26 C per decade -- the highest rate since records began, according to new research by over 50 leading international ...
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June 4, 2024 — A new study offers first-time insights into three emerging climate innovations to safeguard or increase the carbon naturally captured by ocean and coastal ecosystems: rapid interventions to save the ...
June 3, 2024 — A team of scientists has combined paleoclimatic data from the last 2,000 years with powerful computer modeling and in-the-field research on lake ...
June 3, 2024 — A new scientific model is giving researchers an unprecedented, global look at the activities of clams, worms, and other invertebrate animals that burrow at the bottom of the ...
June 3, 2024 — The movement of carbon between the atmosphere, oceans and continents -- or carbon cycle -- regulates Earth's climate, with the ocean playing a major ...
June 3, 2024 — Permafrost soils store large quantities of organic carbon and are often portrayed as a critical tipping element in the Earth system, which, once ...
June 3, 2024 — Greenhouse cultivation is booming globally, especially in the Global South -- and across one country in particular. This is revealed in a new study that deploys detailed satellite imagery and AI to ...
May 30, 2024 — Research has led to a new tool for forecasting coral disease that could help conservationists step in at the right times with key interventions. Ecological forecasts are critical tools for conserving ...
May 30, 2024 — Team utilizes advanced statistical techniques to project the future groundwater depletion ...
May 30, 2024 — Humans may be accelerating the rate at which organic matter decomposes in rivers and streams on a global scale, according to a new study. That could pose a threat to biodiversity in waterways around ...
May 30, 2024 — A great armada entered the North Atlantic, launched from the cold shores of North America. But rather than ships off to war, this force was a fleet of icebergs. And the havoc it wrought was to the ...
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May 29, 2024 — Researchers involved in cataloguing the world's plant species are hunting for answers as to what makes some groups of plants so successful. One of their major goals is to predict more accurately ...
May 29, 2024 — If we want cleaner air, fewer forest fires, and less severe climate change, a new study shows we must reduce aerosol pollution and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide at the same ...
May 28, 2024 — A team of scientists has used artificial intelligence (AI) to map the activities of seafloor invertebrate animals, such as worms, clams and shrimps, across all the oceans of the ...
May 23, 2024 — Chemistry researchers are hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion ...
May 23, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered a planet between the sizes of Earth and Venus only 40 light-years ...
May 22, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered the properties of a rare earth element that was first discovered 80 years ago at the very same laboratory, opening a new pathway for the exploration of elements critical in ...
May 22, 2024 — As much as 70 percent of California was covered by wildfire smoke during parts of 2020 and 2021, according to a new ...
May 22, 2024 — Many processes in the deep sea are not yet well understood, and the role of microbial communities in particular is often a big unknown. This includes, for example, how organic material that sinks ...
May 21, 2024 — To achieve global biodiversity targets, conservationists and governments must prioritize the establishment and effective management of large, interconnected protected areas with high ecological ...
May 21, 2024 — Dozens of Alaska's rivers and streams are turning orange. The staining could be the result of minerals exposed by thawing permafrost and climate change, finds a new ...
May 21, 2024 — The diversity and ecological functionality of bird communities in tropical agroforestry systems are shaped by the surrounding landscape, in particular the extent and composition of the ...
May 21, 2024 — Researchers have built a prototype fiber optic gyroscope for high resolution, real-time monitoring of ground rotations caused by earthquakes in the active volcanic area of Campi Flegrei in Naples, ...
May 20, 2024 — A team of geologists analyzed 3,500 samples taken in and around coal mines in Utah and Colorado. Their findings open the possibility that these mines could see a secondary resource stream in the form ...
May 20, 2024 — Glaciologists show evidence of warm ocean water intruding kilometers beneath grounded ice at Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The findings suggest that existing climate models are underestimating ...
May 20, 2024 — A team delves into the spatiotemporal patterns of water volume and total organic carbon concentration of agricultural ...
May 20, 2024 — Researchers have unveiled that myriad, intricate factors influence the genesis and chemistry of bastnasite and rare earth carbonates, which are critically needed for today's tech industry and ...
May 20, 2024 — Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into the tectonic plate shifts that create some of the Earth's largest earthquakes and ...
May 17, 2024 — An international team of scientists has revealed high levels of toxic metals in global phosphate fertilizers using a isotopic variants of the element strontium as a tracer to uncover metals in soil, ...
May 17, 2024 — A team explored the influence the spatial extent of research -- the geographical coverage of data collected -- has on evaluating the sensitivity of different fish species to climate ...
May 17, 2024 — Recognizing and respecting the different ways nature is valued can enable better environmental decision-making, according to new ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- What Makes Some Plant Groups So Successful?
- Aerosol Pollution, Greenhouse Gases Must Be Reduced Simultaneously to Keep Forest Fires in Check
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- Iron Could Be Key to Less Expensive, Greener Lithium-Ion Batteries, Research Finds
- Intriguing Nearby World Sized Between Earth, Venus
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
- Promethium Bound: Rare Earth Element's Secrets Exposed
- Smoke Covered 70% of California During Biggest Wildfire Years
- New Insights Into the Degradation Dynamics of Organic Material in the Seafloor
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
- Conservation of Nature's Strongholds Needed to Halt Biodiversity Loss
- Alaska's Rusting Waters: Pristine Rivers and Streams Turning Orange
- Regional Differences in Bird Diversity in Agroforestry Systems
- Highly Sensitive Fiber Optic Gyroscope Senses Rotational Ground Motion Around Active Volcano
Monday, May 20, 2024
- Can Coal Mines Be Tapped for Rare Earth Elements?
- 'Vigorous Melting' At Antarctica's Thwaites 'Doomsday' Glacier
- Unraveling the Drought Dilemma: Can Reservoirs Be a Carbon Source?
- Extreme Complexity in Formation of Rare Earth Mineral Vital for Tech Industry
- Subduction Zone Splay Faults Compound Hazards of Great Earthquakes
Friday, May 17, 2024
- Scientists Develop New Geochemical 'fingerprint' To Trace Contaminants in Fertilizer
- Scale Matters in Determining Vulnerability of Freshwater Fish to Climate Changes
- Differing Values of Nature Can Still Lead to Joined Up Goals for Sustainability
- Can We Revolutionize the Chemical Industry and Create a Circular Economy? Yes, With the Help of Catalysts
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024
- Today's World: Fastest Rate of Carbon Dioxide Rise Over the Last 50,000 Years
- Island Birds More Adaptable Than Previously Thought
Friday, May 10, 2024
- Clues from Deep Magma Reservoirs Could Improve Volcanic Eruption Forecasts
- Scientists Unlock Key to Breeding 'carbon Gobbling' Plants With a Major Appetite
Thursday, May 9, 2024
- Ocean Biodiversity Work Needs Improvement
- Improved Wildfire Smoke Model Identifies Areas for Public Health Intervention
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
- Heavy Snowfall and Rain May Contribute to Some Earthquakes
- Climate Resilience Strategies in Urban, Rural Areas
- Rock Steady: Study Reveals New Mechanism to Explain How Continents Stabilized
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- Researchers Show That Slow-Moving Earthquakes Are Controlled by Rock Permeability
- From Fossils to Fuel: Mozambique's Maniamba Basin's Energy Potential
Monday, May 6, 2024
Friday, May 3, 2024
- Quantifying U.S. Health Impacts from Gas Stoves
- Did a Magnetic Field Collapse Trigger the Emergence of Animals?
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- New Nevada Experiments Will Improve Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions
- For Microscopic Organisms, Ocean Currents Act as 'expressway' To Deeper Depths
- Oil Palm Plantations Are Driving Massive Downstream Impact to Watershed
- Human Activity Is Causing Toxic Thallium to Enter the Baltic Sea, According to New Study
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- Do Earthquake Hazard Maps Predict Higher Shaking Than Actually Occurred?
- New Computer Algorithm Supercharges Climate Models and Could Lead to Better Predictions of Future Climate Change
- Mystery Behind Huge Opening in Antarctic Sea Ice Solved
- Rock Solid Evidence: Angola Geology Reveals Prehistoric Split Between South America and Africa
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Warming Arctic Reduces Dust Levels in Parts of the Planet
- Unveiling the Lionfish Invasion in the Mediterranean Sea
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Human Activities Have an Intense Impact on Earth's Deep Subsurface Fluid Flow
- Artificial Intelligence Helps Scientists Engineer Plants to Fight Climate Change
- Managing Meandering Waterways in a Changing World
- Modeling Broader Effects of Wildfires in Siberia
- Researchers Find Oldest Undisputed Evidence of Earth's Magnetic Field
- High-Resolution Lidar Sees Birth Zone of Cloud Droplets
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Critical Minerals Recovery from Electronic Waste
- Asian Monsoon Lofts Ozone-Depleting Substances to Stratosphere
- Warming Climate Is Putting More Metals Into Colorado's Mountain Streams
- Toward Unification of Turbulence Framework -- Weak-to-Strong Transition Discovered in Turbulence
- Tropical Fish Are Invading Australian Ocean Water
Monday, April 22, 2024
- World's Oases Threatened by Desertification, Even as Humans Expand Them
- To Accelerate Biosphere Science, Reconnect Three Scientific Cultures
Friday, April 19, 2024
- The Italian Central Apennines as a Source of CO2
- Weather Prediction Models Can Also Forecast Satellite Displacements
- Warming of Antarctic Deep-Sea Waters Contribute to Sea Level Rise in North Atlantic, Study Finds
- Scientists Trigger Mini-Earthquakes in the Lab
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Ice Age Climate Analysis Reduces Worst-Case Warming Expected from Rising CO2
- Unique Field Study Shows How Climate Change Affects Fire-Impacted Forests
- Paradox of Extreme Cold Events in a Warming World
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Researchers Shine Light on Rapid Changes in Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems
- CO2 Worsens Wildfires by Helping Plants Grow
- Fires Pose Growing Worldwide Threat to Wildland-Urban Interface
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Hidden Threat: Global Underground Infrastructure Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise
- GeoAI Technologies for Sustainable Urban Development
- Switch to Green Wastewater Infrastructure Could Reduce Emissions and Provide Huge Savings According to New Research
- New Radar Analysis Method Can Improve Winter River Safety
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Retention Ponds Can Deliver a Substantial Reduction in Tire Particle Pollution
- Africa's Iconic Flamingos Threatened by Rising Lake Levels
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Rock Permeability, Microquakes Link May Be a Boon for Geothermal Energy
- Tropical Coral-Infecting Parasites Discovered in Cold Marine Ecosystems
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Pacific Cities Much Older Than Previously Thought
- Novel UV Broadband Spectrometer Revolutionizes Air Pollutant Analysis
- New Approach Needed to Save Australia's Non-Perennial Rivers
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- Scientist Helps Link Climate Change to Madagascar's Megadrought
- Humans Can Increase Biodiversity, Archaeological Study Shows
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Climate Change Threatens Antarctic Meteorites
- Boreal Forest and Tundra Regions Worst Hit Over Next 500 Years of Climate Change, Study Shows
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Ocean Waves Propel PFAS Back to Land
- Four in Five Bird Species Cannot Tolerate Intense Human Pressures
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Ocean Floor a 'reservoir' Of Plastic Pollution
- Researchers Envision Sci-Fi Worlds Involving Changes to Atmospheric Water Cycle
- Tracing the Largest Solar Storm in Modern Times from Tree Rings in Lapland
- Adult Fish Struggle to Bounce Back in Marine Protected Areas
- New Method Reveals Hidden Activity of Life Below Ground
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- 'Tug of War' Tactic Enhances Chemical Separations for Critical Materials
- For Mining in Arid Regions to Be Responsible, We Must Change How We Think About Water
- California Leads U.S. Emissions of Little-Known Greenhouse Gas
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- New Step in Tectonic Squeeze That Turns Seafloor Into Mountains
- A New Estimate of U.S. Soil Organic Carbon to Improve Earth System Models
- Scientists' Urgent Call: End Destruction and Forge a Just, Sustainable Future