Oct. 8, 2020 — Deep-seabed mining is considered a way to address the increasing need of rare metals. However, the environmental impacts are considered to be substantial but remain largely unknown and clear ...
Oct. 5, 2020 — Researchers focused on the stability of tropical rainforests in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. With their approach they were able to explore how rainforests respond to changing ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — The Earth's nature reserves are set to be affected by future climate change in very different ways. Detailed local knowledge of climate change impacts can therefore make a significant ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — Global warming is driving an unprecedented rise in sea temperatures including in the Mediterranean, according to a major new ...
Oct. 2, 2020 — Researchers analyzed these geographic regions, which include cities like New Orleans, Bangkok, and Shanghai, using a new global dataset to determine how many people live on river deltas, how many are ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — Repeated catastrophic ice discharges from western North America into the North Pacific contributed to, and perhaps triggered, hemispheric-scale changes in the Earth's climate during the last ice ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — A new study reveals that decent living standards could be provided to the entire global population of 10 billion that is expected to be reached by 2050, for less than 40% of today's global ...
Oct. 1, 2020 — Scientists have identified a novel driver of new aerosol particle formation in the Arctic during the summer to fall transition. The authors show that iodic acid is important for forming new particles ...
Sep. 30, 2020 — Oceanographers have found that a hurricane can be considerably strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico through the compounding effects of two extreme weather events. This process could continue in the ...
Sep. 30, 2020 — If human societies don't sharply curb emissions of greenhouse gases, Greenland's rate of ice loss this century is likely to greatly outpace that of any century over the past 12,000 years, a ...
Sep. 30, 2020 — Marine biologists studying the genetic structure of the Humboldt squid population found it is vulnerable to overfishing by fleets on its migration ...
Sep. 30, 2020 — While today's fires are exacerbated by dry conditions, researchers found that forest fires 94 million years ago increased even in wet regions due to changes in global ...
Sep. 30, 2020 — As the climate trends warmer and drier, global food security increasingly hinges on crops' ability to withstand drought. But are scientists and producers focusing on the right metric when ...
Sep. 29, 2020 — Scientists investigating ways of removing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from our atmosphere believe volcanic ash could play an important ...
Sep. 29, 2020 — A 10-year effort by China to improve air quality and reduce pollution-related health risks has caused warming in areas across the northern hemisphere, according to new ...
Sep. 29, 2020 — Researchers have tackled a problem that has challenged scientists for more than a decade. The findings from which may have important implications for understanding and predicting the ecological ...
Sep. 29, 2020 — A major new study that maps potential aboveground carbon accumulation rates for forest regrowth across the ...
Sep. 29, 2020 — Climate warming will alter marine community compositions as species are expected to shift poleward, significantly impacting the Arctic marine ...
Sep. 29, 2020 — Usually, talk of carbon sequestration focuses on plants: forests storing carbon in the trunks of massive trees, algae blooming and sinking to the seabed, or perhaps peatlands locking carbon away for ...
Sep. 29, 2020 — Researchers produce malic acid, which contains 4 carbon atoms, through artificial photosynthesis by simply adding metal ions like aluminum and iron. This solves a problem with current artificial ...
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