World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality must improve
UNEP/IUCN Protected Planet Report: over 22 million km2 of land, 28 million km2 of ocean protected or conserved since 2010; ...
Tag: Earth Science
‘Postcode lottery’ of nutrient intake from crops revealed in new study
Credit: The University of Nottingham The amount of nutrients people get from the crops that they eat is a type ...
Did Earth’s early rise in oxygen help multicellular life evolve?
A new study is taking the air out of a hypothesis linking early Earth's oxygenation to larger, more complex organisms. ...
Saving the eastern monarch butterfly: SFU research
Researchers analyzed current conservation strategies and recommended changes to how and where declining milkweed (an essential food source for butterfly ...
PNNL invention reduces risk of battery explosions
Rapid removal of gases during battery fires is critical to explosion preventionCredit: (Photo by Allan Tuan | Pacific Northwest National ...
Mapping the Midwest’s soil topography
Credit: Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences AMES, Iowa - Climate change and soil erosion feed into ...
Wake steering potentially boosts energy production at US wind plants
U.S. wind plants achieve a predicted annual production gain of 0.8% by using wake steeringCredit: Eric Simley, NREL WASHINGTON, May ...
Peatlands pose complex, poorly understood risk for similar fires, researchers warn
Findings come five years after disastrous fire in Fort McMurray, AlbertaCredit: Sophie Wilkinson, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON May 18, 2021 ...
Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announces 2021 graduate fellows
Credit: Fannie and John Hertz Foundation The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the most ...
Land can retain about 1/4 monthly precipitation
Credit: Enda Zhu To support growing human and animal life, freshwater sources must continuously supply water. Freshwater from lakes, rivers, ...
Working together for clean water
The BMBF project "TRUST" (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research) at the University of Stuttgart developed concepts ...
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 ...
Colonization of the Antilles by South American fauna: Giant sunken islands as a passageway
Credit: © Cornée et al. Fossils of land animals from South America have been found in the Antilles, but how ...
Greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions are lengthening and intensifying droughts
UCI study shows human-sourced boost to drying in Americas, Africa and AsiaCredit: Amir AghaKouchak / UCI Irvine, Calif., May 17, ...
Mammals in the time of dinosaurs held each other back
Credit: Art by Corbin Rainbolt. A new study led by researchers from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University ...
Global land use more extensive than estimated
KIT scientists benefit from a new set of maps created from high-resolution satellite data and statistics to prove that land-use ...
Fibre-optics used to take the temperature of Greenland Ice Sheet
Credit: Poul Christoffersen and RESPONDER team Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ...
New cyanobacteria species spotlights early life
Anthocerotibacter panamensis, a newly discovered species of cyanobacteria, can help researchers study the dawn of oxygenic photosynthesisCredit: Fay-Wei Li ITHACA, ...
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 ...
