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May 3, 2024
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May 3, 2024 — Researchers uncovered compelling evidence that Earth's magnetic field was in a highly unusual state when the macroscopic animals of the Ediacaran Period -- 635 to 541 million years ago -- diversified and thrived. Their study raises the question of ...
May 3, 2024 — Heavy pooling meltwater can fracture ice, potentially leading to ice shelf ...
May 3, 2024 — Recent findings that plants employ a drought-survival mechanism to also defend against nutrient-sucking pests could inform future crop breeding programs aimed at achieving better broadscale pest ...
May 2, 2024 — The global demand for palm oil -- the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick -- is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many studies have shown the loss of biodiversity when ...
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May 2, 2024 — Some of the ocean's tiniest organisms get swept into underwater currents that act as a conduit that shuttles them from the sunny surface to deeper, ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how genetic drivers influence the evolution of a specific photosynthesis mechanism in ...
May 1, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the missing piece of the puzzle behind a rare opening in the sea ice around Antarctica, which was nearly twice the size of Wales and occurred during the winters of 2016 ...
May 1, 2024 — A new computer model uses a better artificial intelligence process to measure snow and water availability more accurately across vast distances in the West, information that could someday be used to ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Evapotranspiration (ET) includes evaporation from soil and open water pools such as lakes, rivers, and ponds, as well as transpiration from plant ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — An estimated 168 billion gallons of wastewater -- or produced water -- is generated annually by the Permian Basin fracking industry, according to a ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Scientists have shed light on a new, transformative approach that could help resolve a dispute over the Nile river's water ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Chemical and heat treatment of sewage sludge can recover phosphorus in a process that could help address the problem of diminishing supplies of phosphorus ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — A special nanostructure has been developed to filter a widespread class of harmful dyes from water. A crucial component is a material that is considered waste: used cellulose, for example in the form ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Oil is an important natural resource for many industries, but it can lead to serious environmental damage when accidentally spilled. While large oil ...
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May 2, 2024 — Scientists have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment and the surrounding ...
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. 24, 2024 — Hydrologists predict human-induced underground fluid fluxes to rise with climate change mitigation strategies like carbon ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Just as water moves through a river, rivers themselves move across the landscape. They carve valleys and canyons, create floodplains and deltas, and transport sediment from the uplands to the ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers discovered that light can cause evaporation of water from a surface without the need for heat. This 'photomolecular effect' could be important for understanding climate change ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Estuaries -- where freshwater rivers meet the salty sea -- are great locations for birdwatching and kayaking. In these areas, waters containing different salt concentrations mix and may be sources of ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Scientists demonstrated the first-ever remote observations of the fine-scale structure at the base of clouds. The results show that the air-cloud interface is a transition zone where aerosol ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — When we think of evolution, we think of a process that happens over hundreds or thousands of years. In research recently published, a species of frog that has evolved over the course of merely 25 ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A nontoxic separation process recovers critical minerals from electronic scrap ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Warming temperatures are causing a steady rise in copper, zinc and sulfate in the waters of Colorado mountain streams affected by acid rock drainage. Concentrations of these metals have roughly ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A new study finds that 'sunny day flooding,' which occurs during high tides, increases the levels of fecal bacteria in coastal waters. While the elevated bacteria levels in the coastal ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Researchers use laser treatments to transform ordinary cork into a powerful tool for treating oil spills. They tested variations of a fast-pulsing laser treatment, closely examining the nanoscopic ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A study of shallow-water fish communities on rocky reefs in south-eastern Australia has found climate change is helping tropical fish species invade temperate Australian ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A new study has revealed breeding less-flatulent cows and restoring agricultural land could significantly reduce rising methane emission levels, which play a considerable role in climate ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Oases are important habitats and water sources for dryland regions, sustaining 10% of the world's population despite taking up about 1.5% of land area. But in many places, climate change and ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — New research has uncovered a feedback loop that may be accelerating the melting of the floating portions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, pushing up global sea levels. The study sheds new light on ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — The Atlantic surfclam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a big way, reversing a die-off that ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — Tectonically active mountains play an important role in the natural CO2 regulation of the atmosphere. Competing processes take place here: At Earth's surface, erosion drives weathering processes ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — Researchers have found that modern weather models can accurately predict the energy that Earth emits and reflects into space, which directly affects the movements of low Earth-orbiting (LEO) ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — Analysis of mooring observations and hydrographic data suggest the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation deep water limb in the North Atlantic has weakened. Two decades of continual ...
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Human Activities Have an Intense Impact on Earth's Deep Subsurface Fluid Flow
- Managing Meandering Waterways in a Changing World
- How Light Can Vaporize Water Without the Need for Heat
- This Salt Battery Harvests Osmotic Energy Where the River Meets the Sea
- High-Resolution Lidar Sees Birth Zone of Cloud Droplets
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Frog Species Evolved Rapidly in Response to Road Salts
- Critical Minerals Recovery from Electronic Waste
- Warming Climate Is Putting More Metals Into Colorado's Mountain Streams
- 'Sunny Day Flooding' Increases Fecal Contamination of Coastal Waters
- Laser-Treated Cork Absorbs Oil for Carbon-Neutral Ocean Cleanup
- Tropical Fish Are Invading Australian Ocean Water
- No Bull: How Creating Less-Gassy Cows Could Help Fight Climate Change
Monday, April 22, 2024
- World's Oases Threatened by Desertification, Even as Humans Expand Them
- Feedback Loop That Is Melting Ice Shelves in West Antarctica Revealed
Friday, April 19, 2024
- Surf Clams Off the Coast of Virginia Reappear -- And Rebound
- 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
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- East Coast Mussel Shells Are Becoming More Porous in Warming Waters
- How Soil Microbes Survive in Harsh Desert Environments
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Coral Reef Microbes Point to New Way to Assess Ecosystem Health
- Trash to Treasure -- Researchers Turn Metal Waste Into Catalyst for Hydrogen
- Huge Database Gives Insight Into Salmon Patterns at Sea
- Plastic Pollution Can Kill Variety of Ocean Embryos
- Florida Wildlife Corridor Eases Worst Impacts of Climate Change
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Hidden Threat: Global Underground Infrastructure Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise
- Microplastics Make Their Way from the Gut to Other Organs
- Switch to Green Wastewater Infrastructure Could Reduce Emissions and Provide Huge Savings According to New Research
- Pyrite, Also Known as Fool's Gold, May Contain Valuable Lithium, a Key Element for Green Energy
- New Radar Analysis Method Can Improve Winter River Safety
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Researchers Study Effects of Solvation and Ion Valency on Metallopolymers
- Retention Ponds Can Deliver a Substantial Reduction in Tire Particle Pollution
- PFAS Exposure from High Seafood Diets May Be Underestimated
- Oceanographers Uncover the Vital Role of Mixing Down of Oxygen in Sustaining Deep Sea Health
- Africa's Iconic Flamingos Threatened by Rising Lake Levels
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Nanoscale Movies Shed Light on One Barrier to a Clean Energy Future
- Tropical Coral-Infecting Parasites Discovered in Cold Marine Ecosystems
- Ocean Currents Threaten to Collapse Antarctic Ice Shelves
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Microplastic 'hotspots' Identified in Long Island Sound
- New Approach Needed to Save Australia's Non-Perennial Rivers
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- A Microbial Plastic Factory for High-Quality Green Plastic
- Scientist Helps Link Climate Change to Madagascar's Megadrought
- Tiny Plastic Particles Are Found Everywhere
- Subterranean Storage of Hydrogen
- Humans Converted at Least 250,000 Acres of Estuaries to Cities, Farms in Last 35 Years
- A Smarter City Skyline for Flood Safety
Monday, April 8, 2024
- How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions
- Deep Parts of Great Barrier Reef 'insulated' From Global Warming -- For Now
- PFAS 'forever Chemicals' Above Drinking Water Guidelines in Global Source Water
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Common Loons Threatened by Declining Water Clarity
- eDNA Methods Give a Real-Time Look at Coral Reef Health
- Heat Stress from Ocean Warming Harms Octopus Vision
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Researchers Envision Sci-Fi Worlds Involving Changes to Atmospheric Water Cycle
- Shy Sea Anemones Are More Likely to Survive Heatwaves
- Fans Are Not a Magic Bullet for Beating the Heat!
- Climate Change Impacts Terrorist Activity
- 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
- Magnetic Fields Boost Clean Energy
- Testing Environmental Water to Monitor COVID-19 Spread in Unsheltered Encampments
- Water-Based Paints: Less Stinky, but Some Still Contain Potentially Hazardous Chemicals
- Groundbreaking Research in Groundwater's Role in Ecosystem Sustainability
- A Simple Way to Harvest More 'blue Energy' From Waves
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Understanding Cattle Grazing Personalities May Foster Sustainable Rangelands
- Land Under Water: What Causes Extreme Flooding?
- What If the Heavy Rain Would Have Fallen 50 Kilometers Away?
- Evolution of the Most Powerful Ocean Current on Earth
- Artificial Reef Designed by MIT Engineers Could Protect Marine Life, Reduce Storm Damage
- A Solar Cell You Can Bend and Soak in Water
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Research Lights Up Process for Turning CO2 Into Sustainable Fuel
- Global Study of Coastal Seas as Carbon Dioxide Reservoirs
- Small Changes Can Yield Big Savings in Agricultural Water Use
- Better Phosphorus Use Can Ensure Its Stocks Last More Than 500 Years and Boost Global Food Production
- Major Environmental Benefits Recycling Gold With Biodiesel
- Maize Genes Control Little Helpers in the Soil
Friday, March 22, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Cleaning Up Environmental Contaminants With Quantum Dot Technology
- Crawfish Could Transfer Ionic Lithium from Their Environment Into Food Chain
- Eyes Open and Toes out of Water: How a Giant Water Bug Reached the Island of Cyprus
- Researchers Investigate How Freshwater Diatoms Stay in the Light
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
- There Are Large Accumulations of Plastics in the Ocean, Even Outside So-Called Garbage Patch
- Fairy Circles: Plant Water Stress Causes Namibia's Gaps in Grass
Monday, March 18, 2024
- Artificial Streams Reveal How Drought Shapes California's Alpine Ecosystems
- Harnessing Hydrogen at Life's Origin
- A Wetter World Recorded in Australian Coral Colony
- Study Estimates Nearly 70 Percent of Children Under Six in Chicago May Be Exposed to Lead-Contaminated Tap Water