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May 10, 2024
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May 1, 2024 — With recent studies having established the presence of nano and microplastic particles in the respiratory systems of both human and bird populations, new research has modeled what happens when people ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — How do birds fly in a coordinated and seemingly effortless fashion? Part of the answer lies in precise, and previously unknown, aerodynamic interactions, reports a team of mathematicians. Its ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — Land subsidence is overlooked as a hazard in cities, according to new research. Scientists used satellite data that accurately and consistently maps land movement across ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to climate change, a new study finds. These ...
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May 10, 2024 — Astronomers have proposed a new theory to explain the origin of phosphorus, one of the elements important for life on Earth. The theory suggests a type of stellar explosion known as ONe novae as a ...
May 9, 2024 — The global chemical industry is a major fossil fuel consumer and climate change contributor; however, new research has identified how the sector could clean up its green credentials by getting ...
May 9, 2024 — A method has been discovered to treat water heavily contaminated with unhealthful forever chemicals, known by chemists as PFAS or poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances. It involves treating heavily ...
May 9, 2024 — Despite its benefits and recognition as a keystone practice of ocean stewardship and conservation, adoption of ecosystem-based management has been slow to take hold. To support this change in ocean ...
May 9, 2024 — An international collaboration says the world's largest marine protected areas aren't collectively delivering the biodiversity benefits they could be because of slow implementation of management ...
May 9, 2024 — A study showed that about half of those surveyed in the mid-South could not accurately identify a tornado ...
May 9, 2024 — The Canadian wildfires of June 2023 exposed a large portion of the Northeastern United States to unprecedented levels of smoke. A new model that ...
May 9, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean. The newly-discovered ...
May 9, 2024 — The division between liberals and conservatives on both climate-change beliefs and related policy support is long-standing. However, the results of a ...
May 9, 2024 — After a century of functional extinction on the Australian mainland, a Flat oyster reef has been successfully restored along a metropolitan Adelaide ...
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May 9, 2024 — New research has looked into the potential effects of increased rainfall in regions being earmarked for expansion of temperate rainforests. Amid global calls for more trees to be planted as part of ...
May 8, 2024 — Episodes of heavy snowfall and rain likely contributed to a swarm of earthquakes over the past several years in northern Japan, researchers find. Their study shows climate conditions could initiate ...
May 8, 2024 — New research shows human activity is significantly altering the ways in which marine organisms are preserved, with lasting effects that can both improve and impair the fossil ...
May 8, 2024 — Local decision-makers looking for ways to reduce the impact of heat waves on their communities have a valuable new capability at their disposal: a new study on vegetation resilience. Scientists ...
May 8, 2024 — Pore pressure diffusion generated by carbon dioxide injected underground at a carbon storage site in the Illinois Basin is the likely cause of hundreds of microearthquakes that took place at the site ...
May 8, 2024 — Ancient, expansive tracts of continental crust called cratons have helped keep Earth's continents stable for billions of years, even as landmasses shift, mountains rise and oceans form. A new ...
May 8, 2024 — Researchers have found evidence of the molecular causes of the damaging impact heat stress causes on the gut, liver and brain in the elderly. These findings point to the potential of developing ...
May 8, 2024 — Even bugs as small as woodlice can disperse seeds they eat, setting a new record for smallest animal recorded to do so. The discovery underscores the crucial yet often overlooked role that small ...
May 8, 2024 — Two species of marine bacteria from the North Sea have established an unusual and sometimes destructive relationship to produce the important vitamin B12. The team's experiments show that the ...
May 8, 2024 — Scientists have confirmed the identity of an unusual, ancient and Endangered species of fish that is living in the coastal rivers of Queensland, about 1400 km north of where it was previously known ...
May 8, 2024 — How do city residents feel about animals in their immediate surroundings? A recent study shows how different the acceptance of various wild animals in urban areas is. Important factors are the places ...
May 8, 2024 — Freshwater bacteria with small genomes frequently undergo prolonged periods of adaptive stagnation. Based on genomic analyses of samples from European lakes, researchers uncovered specific ...
May 8, 2024 — When old food packaging, discarded children's toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean up from oceans and waterways. These tiny ...
May 7, 2024 — Tracking individual enzymes during the breakdown of cellulose for biofuel production has revealed how several roadblocks slow this process when using plant material that might otherwise go to waste. ...
May 7, 2024 — Tipping points in the climate system can be the result of a slow but linear development. However, they can also be accompanied by a 'flickering', with two stable climatic states that ...
May 7, 2024 — Solar energy is a crucial asset in the fight against climate change, and researchers have now devised a smart approach to optimize its effectiveness. Their innovative method includes incorporating ...
May 7, 2024 — For people with HIV, the risk of anal cancer varies according to their geographic ...
May 7, 2024 — A research group explores how the makeup of rocks, specifically their permeability -- or how easily fluids can flow through them -- affects the frequency and intensity of slow slip events. Slow ...
May 7, 2024 — In the ever-expanding search for energy resources, a new study has emerged from Mozambique's Maniamba Basin. Mozambique's Maniamba Basin could be a big source of natural ...
May 7, 2024 — Discharge from ships with so-called scrubbers cause great damage to the Baltic Sea. A new study shows that these emissions caused pollution corresponding to socio-economic costs of more than EUR 680 ...
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
- Heavy Snowfall and Rain May Contribute to Some Earthquakes
- Human Activity Is Making It Harder for Scientists to Interpret Oceans' Past
- Climate Resilience Strategies in Urban, Rural Areas
- Pore Pressure Diffusion Led to Microseismicity at Illinois Basin Carbon Sequestration Site
- Rock Steady: Study Reveals New Mechanism to Explain How Continents Stabilized
- Damaging Impact of Heat Waves on Vital Organs
- New Record Holder for Smallest Dispersers of Ingested Seeds: Woodlice
- Marine Bacteria Team Up to Produce a Vital Vitamin
- Scientists Find Ancient, Endangered Lamprey Fish in Queensland, 1400 Km North of Its Previous Known Range
- Acceptance of Animals in Urban Environments
- Limited Adaptability Makes Freshwater Bacteria Vulnerable to Climate Change
- Swarms of Miniature Robots Clean Up Microplastics and Microbes, Simultaneously
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- Why Is Breaking Down Plant Material for Biofuels So Slow?
- It Flickers, Then It Tips -- Study Identifies Early Warning Signals for the End of the African Humid Period
- Efficacy of Solar Panels Boosted
- US Geographic Region Results in Vastly Different Anal Cancer Risk for People With HIV
- Researchers Show That Slow-Moving Earthquakes Are Controlled by Rock Permeability
- From Fossils to Fuel: Mozambique's Maniamba Basin's Energy Potential
- Millions in Costs Due to Discharge of Scrubber Water Into the Baltic Sea
- Free-Forming Organelles Help Plants Adapt to Climate Change
- Origin of Roman Lead
- Low-Energy Process for High-Performance Solar Cells
Monday, May 6, 2024
- Geologists, Biologists Unearth the Atomic Fingerprints of Cancer
- Turbid Waters Keep the Coast Healthy
- The Clues for Cleaner Water
- AI to Make Crop Production More Sustainable
Friday, May 3, 2024
- Sister Cities Can Help Communities Better Navigate the Climate Crisis
- Quantifying U.S. Health Impacts from Gas Stoves
- Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Is Shifting the Ecological Balance of Caribbean Reefs
- Birdwatching Can Help Students Improve Mental Health, Reduce Distress
- Did a Magnetic Field Collapse Trigger the Emergence of Animals?
- Ice Shelves Fracture Under Weight of Meltwater Lakes
- Plants Utilize Drought Stress Hormone to Block Snacking Spider Mites
- 'Gap' In Carbon Removal: Countries' Plans to Remove CO2 Not Enough
- Climate Change Amplifies Severity of Combined Wind-Rain Extremes Over the UK and Ireland
Monday, May 6, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- New Nevada Experiments Will Improve Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions
- New Eco-Friendly Lubricant Additives Protect Turbine Equipment, Waterways
- 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
- Path to Easier Recycling of Solar Modules
- Robots Invited to Help Make Wind Turbine Blades
- Wildfires in Wet African Forests Have Doubled in Recent Decades
- Sugar-Based Catalyst Upcycles Carbon Dioxide
- To Bend the Curve of Biodiversity Loss, Nature Recovery Must Be Integrated Across All Sectors
- Artificial Intelligence Enhances Monitoring of Threatened Marbled Murrelet
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- EPA Underestimates Methane Emissions from Landfills, Urban Areas
- 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
- Roadmap to Close the Carbon Cycle
- Rock Solid Evidence: Angola Geology Reveals Prehistoric Split Between South America and Africa
- Improved AI Process Could Better Predict Water Supplies
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Activity in a Room Stirs Up Nanoparticles Left Over from Consumer Sprays
- Astronomers Share Climate-Friendly Meeting Solutions
- Scientists Show Ancient Village Adapted to Drought, Rising Seas
- Missing Link in Species Conservation: Pharmacists, Chemists Could Turn Tide on Plant, Animal Extinction
- Researchers Develop an AI Model to Reduce Uncertainty in Evapotranspiration Prediction
- Climate Change and Mercury Pollution Stressed Plants for Millions of Years
- Low-Intensity Grazing Is Locally Better for Biodiversity but Challenging for Land Users, a New Study Shows
- Methane Emissions from Landfill Could Be Turned Into Sustainable Jet Fuel in Plasma Chemistry Leap
- Big Data Reveals True Climate Impact of Worldwide Air Travel
- Biodegradable 'living Plastic' Houses Bacterial Spores That Help It Break Down
- A Virus Could Help Save Billions of Gallons of Wastewater Produced by Fracking
- Discovery of Mechanism Plants Use to Change Seed Oil Could Impact Industrial, Food Oils
- Unlocking the Genetic Mysteries Behind Plant Adaptation: New Insights Into the Evolution of a Water-Saving Trait in the Pineapple Family (Bromeliaceae)
- E-Bike Incentives Prove to Be Worth the Investment
Monday, April 29, 2024
- Fading Lights: Multiple Threats to North America's Firefly Populations
- Hornets Found to Be Primary Pollinators of Two Angelica Species
- How Can Forests Be Reforested in a Climate-Friendly Way?
- Study Reveals Cancer Vulnerabilities in Popular Dog Breeds
- Details of Hurricane Ian's Aftermath Captured With New Remote Sensing Method
- Fixin' To Be Flexitarian: Scrap Fish and Invasive Species Can Liven Up Vegetables
Friday, April 26, 2024
- Researchers Introduce New Way to Study, Help Prevent Landslides
- New Algorithm Cuts Through 'noisy' Data to Better Predict Tipping Points
- Mobile Device Location Data Is Already Used by Private Companies, So Why Not for Studying Human-Wildlife Interactions
- Energy Trades Could Help Resolve Nile Conflict
- Florida Dolphin Found With Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu
- How Geography Acts as a Structural Determinant of Health
- Ancient Maya Blessed Their Ballcourts
- Scientists Capture X-Rays from Upward Positive Lightning
- Recovering Phosphorus from Sewage Sludge Ash
- Anthropologist Documents How Women and Shepherds Historically Reduced Wildfire Risk in Central Italy
- Genetic Hope in Fight Against Devastating Wheat Disease
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- New Offshore Wind Turbines Can Take Away Energy from Existing Ones
- Climate Change Could Become the Main Driver of Biodiversity Decline by Mid-Century
- Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action
- Curiosity Promotes Biodiversity
- Herring Arrives Earlier in the Wadden Sea Due to Climate Change
- Estimating Emissions Potential of Decommissioned Gas Wells from Shale Samples
- Scientists Released Long-Term Data of Ground Solar-Induced Fluorescence to Improve Understanding of Canopy-Level Photosynthesis
- The Longer Spilled Oil Lingers in Freshwater, the More Persistent Compounds It Produces
- Warming Arctic Reduces Dust Levels in Parts of the Planet
- Scientists Replace Fishmeal in Aquaculture With Microbial Protein Derived from Soybean Processing Wastewater
- Key to Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells
- Deer Are Expanding North, and That's Not Good for Caribou
- How Electric Vehicle Drivers Can Escape Range Anxiety
- Unveiling the Lionfish Invasion in the Mediterranean Sea