Tag: Earth Science

Intensive water management promotes 'live fast, die young' cycle in floodplain forestsCredit: John Stella, ESF A study of woodland ecosystems ...

The sun’s clock

All cycles fit the picture: New calculations support and expand planetary hypothesisCredit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA Not only the very ...

Lazy, hazy days no more: A call-to-action to better understand air pollution mechanisms

Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Earth's atmosphere has a budget, and when expenses outpace savings, secondary aerosols form in areas ...

CAPPA students win national environmental design challenge

UTA student teams take first place, honorable mention in EPA competitionCredit: UT Arlington Student teams from The University of Texas ...

Effects of ‘Fenton-like’ reactions of ferric oxalate on atmospheric oxidation processes and radiative forcing

June 11, 2021

Credit: Yu Wang The Fenton reaction is a chemical transition involving hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and the ferrous (iron) ion, which ...

A better understanding of ‘wet markets’ is key to safeguarding human health, biodiversity

June 11, 2021

Credit: Photo credit: Ginette Lai, Taiwan PRINCETON, N.J.--Great uncertainty surrounds the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Early on, some suggested a link ...

Machine learning model doubles accuracy of global landslide ‘nowcasts’

Credit: Credits: NASA Every year, landslides - the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope - cause thousands ...

Combating maritime litter

Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon categorizes innovative solutions for fighting pollution in the oceansCredit: Photo: Brian Yurasits via Unsplash Plastic bottles drifting in ...

Four collaborative research centres at Goethe University receiving funding

German Research Foundation funds new CRC Transregio 326 „Geometry and arithmetic of uniformized structures" - CRC 1039 on medical signal ...

The rocky road to accurate sea-level predictions

Dirt and water under Greenland control future seaCredit: Henning Åkesson The type of material present under glaciers has a big ...

Dinosaurs lived in greenhouse climate with hot summers

New climate reconstruction method provides precise picture of climate 78 million years agoCredit: Niels de Winter Palaeoclimatologists study climate of ...

IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts

Global experts identify key options for solutions; First-ever collaboration between IPBES- and IPCC-selected scientistsCredit: IPBES BONN, 10 June - Unprecedented ...

Climate protection: Deep decarbonization by 2050 currently not plausible

Credit: Universitaet Hamburg Today the Hamburg-based Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS) publishes a new, essential study ...

Endangered blue whales recorded off southwest coast of India