Oregon State research shows why some pockets of conifer survive repeated forest fires
Credit: Will Downing, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers say "topographic templates" can help forest conservation managers develop ...
Tag: Atmospheric Science
Slow research to understand fast change
Forty years of experiments, observation, modeling and theory may be just what's needed to see where the world is headedCredit: ...
MIT unveils a new action plan to tackle the climate crisis
The Institute commits to net-zero emissions by 2026, charts course marshaling all of MIT's capabilities toward decarbonizationCredit: Image: Christopher Harting ...
Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago
Ancient zircons from the jack hills of western Australia hone date of an event that was crucial to making the ...
Climate change threatens one-third of global food production
New estimates show that if greenhouse gases continue growing at current rates, large regions at risk of being pushed into ...
James Anderson wins the Dreyfus Foundation’s high honor
The pioneer of environmental chemistry earns the 2021 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences for decades of ground-breaking workCredit: Harvard ...
Protecting local water has global benefits
New paper published May 11, 2021 in Nature CommunicationsCredit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. 2019. ...
1.5°C degrowth scenarios suggest need for new mitigation pathways: Research
Wellbeing can be maintained in a degrowth transitionCredit: Lorenz Keyßer The first comprehensive comparison of 'degrowth' scenarios with established pathways ...
Rapid lifestyle changes during early COVID-19 pandemic had no impact on climate change
Household carbon footprints did not significantly change during the first state of emergency in JapanCredit: Image by Yin Long, first ...
Study helps to better understand the link between indoor and outdoor air quality
Credit: Junyao Li People spend about 80-90% of their time indoors. Compared to outdoor air quality, the indoor air quality ...
Emissions from human activity modify biogenic secondary organic aerosol formation
Credit: Li Xu Despite their extremely small size, submicron atmospheric aerosols are critical pollutants with climate change, air quality, and ...
Ice core data show why, despite lower sulfur emissions in US and Western Europe, air pollution is
Credit: Hokkaido University The air in the United States and Western Europe is much cleaner than even a decade ago. ...
Antarctica remains the wild card for sea-level rise estimates through 2100
LANL scientists contribute to comprehensive sea-level rise projectionsCredit: (photo by Jeremy Harbeck, NASA Icebridge). LOS ALAMOS, N.M., May 5, 2021-- ...
Microplastics found in Europe’s largest ice cap
Credit: Eirikur Sigurdsson In a recent article in Sustainability, scientists from Reykjavik University (RU), the University of Gothenburg, and the ...