More taxpayers’ money for the environment and public benefit
EU Common Agricultural Policy: More than 3,600 researchers call for science to be taken into considerationCredit: Sebastian Lakner The European ...
Tag: Climate Change
NASA satellite offers urban carbon dioxide insights
Credit: Dien Wu/University of Utah A new NASA/university study of carbon dioxide emissions for 20 major cities around the world ...
World-first system forecasts warming of lakes globally
Research will enable better predictions of the impact of climate change on surface water temperatures and ecologyCredit: UKCEH A groundbreaking ...
Satellite data boosts understanding of climate change’s effects on kelp
Credit: Image provided by Sara Hamilton, OSU College of Science. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Tapping into 35 years of satellite imagery, ...
Scientists say it is time to save the red sea’s coral reef
Credit: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg The news in brief: 1) Red Sea corals and especially corals of the Gulf of Aqaba in ...
Bath engineer wins national technology award
Credit: FDM Everywoman The annual national awards programme celebrates the most inspirational women working within STEM (science, technology, engineering and ...
Freeze-dried soil is more suitable for studying soil reactive nitrogen gas emissions
Credit: Dianming Wu Earth's atmosphere and climate change are strongly affected by gas exchange between land and atmosphere. Reactive nitrogen ...
What we don’t know (about lakes) could hurt us
As extreme weather increases, scientists from 20 countries warn of risk to lakes and water qualityCredit: Samuel Nanchen As the ...
New book tells of early Antarctic explorations, continent’s connection to climate
A new book illustrates the environmental history of Antarctica through stories of 19th-century expeditions.Credit: Courtesy Gillen D'Arcy Wood CHAMPAIGN, Ill. ...
Flower faithful native bee makes a reliable pollinator
Just like us, the humble sweat bee has a daily routineCredit: Jacob Cecala Entomologists at UC Riverside have documented that ...
Almost alien: Antarctic subglacial lakes are cold, dark and full of secrets
Credit: JT Thomas More than half of the planet's fresh water is in Antarctica. While most of it is frozen ...
NASA tracks ex-Tropical Cyclone Esther over Northern Territory
Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Aqua satellite continues to provide forecasters with a visible image ex-tropical cyclone Esther's remnant clouds and ...
Destruction of an Atlantic rain forest fragment raises the local temperature
Brazilian researchers show that if 25% of a one-hectare forest remnant is cut down, the impact on the local climate ...
New model shows winners, losers among marine microbes in warming oceans
A USC-led research team developed a new tool to show how rising ocean temperatures help and hurt various marine microbesCredit: ...
Nutrient pollution and ocean warming negatively affect early life of corals
Credit: Raphael Ritson-Williams Corals are constantly exposed to multiple environmental stressors at any given time. On a global scale, climate ...
Cover crops can benefit hot, dry soils
Credit: Rajan Ghimire The Southern High Plains of the United States have low annual rainfall. When it does rain, though, ...
NASA sees ex-tropical cyclone Esther move back into northern territory
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a ...
With 30,000 surveys, researchers build the go-to dataset for smallholder farms
Farmer input is essential to tackling global challenges of climate change, rural poverty and nutrition. A new data collection tool ...
Coral reefs in Turks and Caicos Islands resist global bleaching event
Credit: Photo by Abby Knipp CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A study that relied on citizen scientists to monitor the health of ...
Texas A&M researchers develop flooding prediction tool
Almost real-time flood prediction tool may boost emergency response during hurricanesCredit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering By incorporating the ...
