No leg to stand on for Australia’s flamingos
Three species thrived until inland lakes driedCredit: Flinders University The sweeping pink salt lakes across Australia's interior are all that ...
Tag: Earth Science
Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management
Columbia engineers apply their pioneering technique to attain energy-efficient zero-liquid discharge--the last frontier of desalination--of ultrahigh salinity brinesCredit: Chanhee Boo/Columbia ...
You’re using disinfectants wrong. Here’s what you actually need to do (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 25, 2020 -- Sure, you've got a product that says "kills germs" under ...
Papers concludes that incentives to afforestation can be harmful to the environment
Credit: Cristian EcheverrÃa "Through a counterfactual analysis, we showed that between 1986 and 2011 the incentives to afforestation in Chile ...
Carbon cycling in wet soils
Credit: Courtesy of Adrian Mellage Under changing, increasingly dynamic climatic conditions, temperate soils are forecast to experience a high degree ...
Puget Sound eelgrass beds create a ‘halo’ with fewer harmful algae, new method shows
Credit: Emily Kunselman Eelgrass, a species of seagrass named for its long slippery texture, is one of nature's superheroes. It ...
Simulations reveal how saltwater behaves in Earth’s mantle
Credit: Zhang et al Scientists estimate that the Earth's mantle holds as much water as all the oceans on the ...
Self-powered alarm fights forest fires, monitors environment
Credit: Michigan State University Smokey the Bear says that only you can prevent wildfires, but what if Smokey had a ...
NASA finds post-Tropical Cyclone Dolly exiting the tropical stage
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite provided a night-time look at what is now Post-Tropical Storm Dolly in the ...
NASA satellite gives a hello to tropical storm Dolly
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview During the morning of June 23, the fourth system in the Northern Atlantic Ocean was a ...
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captures 63 mile smoke trail from bush fire
Credit: NASA Worldview NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the Bush Fire on June 22, 2020 showing clouds ...
NASA analyzes the newest Atlantic Ocean subtropical depression
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite used infrared light to analyze the strength of storms in the North Atlantic Ocean's ...
Better prepared for forest fires
Cross-institute project to understand the dynamics of forest fires and mitigate the riskCredit: Photo: Gabi Zachmann, KIT Long-lasting drought increases ...
Brexit’s and research networks: Lower efficiency, reorganization of research communities
An analysis of 19,200 private companies, research organizations, public entities and higher education institutions involved in Horizon 2020 projects shows ...
Towards a green future: Efficient laser technique can convert cellulose into biofuel
Scientists developed a novel laser-based strategy for the effective degradation of cellulose into useful productsCredit: Tokyo University of Science With ...
Get your hands dirty for health
Call to restore urban biodiversity, post-pandemicCredit: Flinders University Billions of people using the Earth's resources and changing or destroying ecosystems ...
Extending the coverage of PM2.5 monitoring to help improve air quality
Credit: Liang Ran Air pollution, especially the particulate matter in the atmosphere, can result in poor air quality and visibility, ...
Oil forecasting technique adapted for spreadsheets may cut shale operator costs
3D reservoir models predict the amount of oil in shale wells, but they are usually very complicated and slowCredit: Texas ...
300-million-year-old fish resembles a sturgeon but took a different evolutionary path
Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri recasts the notion of what it means to be a 'primitive' vertebrate, according to Penn paleontologists Lauren Sallan ...
NASA observes large Saharan dust plume over Atlantic ocean
Credit: Credits: NASA Worldview NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite observed a huge Saharan dust plume streaming over the North Atlantic Ocean, ...