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June 2, 2024
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May 30, 2024 — Trout living in rivers polluted by metal from old mines across the British Isles are genetically 'isolated' from other trout, new research ...
May 30, 2024 — Engineers have helped design a new method to make hydrogen gas from water using only solar power and agricultural waste such as manure or husks. The method reduces the energy needed to extract hydrogen from water by 600%, creating new opportunities ...
May 29, 2024 — Antibiotics prevent snails from forming new memories by disrupting their gut microbiome -- the community of beneficial bacteria found in their ...
May 30, 2024 — Humans may be accelerating the rate at which organic matter decomposes in rivers and streams on a global scale, according to a new study. That could pose a threat to biodiversity in waterways around the world and increase the amount of carbon in ...
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May 30, 2024 — Team utilizes advanced statistical techniques to project the future groundwater depletion ...
May 29, 2024 — Dust particles from the Salton Sea's exposed lakebed increased air pollution in local communities, found a new study. The pollution coincides with reduced flows into the lake and diversions to San ...
May 30, 2024 — A great armada entered the North Atlantic, launched from the cold shores of North America. But rather than ships off to war, this force was a fleet of icebergs. And the havoc it wrought was to the ...
May 29, 2024 — If we want cleaner air, fewer forest fires, and less severe climate change, a new study shows we must reduce aerosol pollution and greenhouse gases ...
May 27, 2024 — According to a paper, climate and weather predictions of increased rainfall will lead to an exponential expansion of land-locked lakes on the Tibetan ...
May 28, 2024 — Researchers have developed a sustainable and controllable strategy to manipulate interfacial heat transfer, paving the way for improving the performance of eco-friendly cooling in various ...
May 23, 2024 — The Colorado River makes life possible in many Western cities and supports agriculture that sustains people throughout the country. Most of the ...
May 23, 2024 — Closing in on the theoretical maximum efficiency, devices for turning heat into electricity are edging closer to being practical for use on the grid, ...
May 22, 2024 — A new study has found that residents living in the downstream communities that border the Merrimack River are at a substantially increased risk of developing acute gastrointestinal illnesses (AGI) in ...
May 24, 2024 — Splash a few drops of water on a hot pan and if the pan is hot enough, the water will sizzle and the droplets of water seem to roll and float, hovering above the surface. The temperature at which ...
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May 24, 2024 — Researchers have outlined a way to manipulate water molecules to make CO2R more efficient, with the ultimate goal of creating a clean energy loop. Through their new method, the team was able to ...
May 24, 2024 — Researchers introduce a polymer-based material with unique properties. This material allows sunlight to enter, maintains a more comfortable indoor climate without additional energy, and cleans itself ...
May 23, 2024 — Water scarcity will intensify with climate and socioeconomic change, disproportionately impacting populations located in the Global ...
May 23, 2024 — Constantly on the hunt for food: Harbor porpoises more vulnerable than previously thought to the disturbances from humans. The small whales spend more than 60 percent of their day hunting small fish ...
May 23, 2024 — Members of the vertebrate group including anglerfishes are unique in possessing a characteristic known as sexual parasitism, in which males temporarily attach or permanently fuse with females to ...
May 22, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method to produce very low emission concrete at scale -- an innovation that could be transformative in the transition to net zero. The method, which the researchers say ...
May 22, 2024 — As much as 70 percent of California was covered by wildfire smoke during parts of 2020 and 2021, according to a new ...
May 22, 2024 — In a new study, a team of researchers used research on fossilizing techniques to create a new method for sealing cracks and fractures in rocks and bedrock using a 'concretion-forming ...
May 21, 2024 — Dozens of Alaska's rivers and streams are turning orange. The staining could be the result of minerals exposed by thawing permafrost and climate change, finds a new ...
May 21, 2024 — Scientists report a family of tin-based catalysts that efficiently converts CO2 into ethanol, acetic acid and formic acid. These liquid hydrocarbons are among the most produced chemicals in the U.S ...
May 21, 2024 — Urban greening projects should consider historical development patterns and past discriminatory practices to avoid exacerbating the unequal distribution of environmental benefits, says an urban and ...
May 21, 2024 — Sudden, severe dry spells known as flash droughts are rising in intensity around the world, with a notable exception in mountainous Central Asia, where flash drought extent is shrinking, according to ...
A Rise in Sea Urchins and Related Damage to Kelp Forests Impacts Oregon's Gray Whales and Their Food
May 21, 2024 — A recent boom in the purple sea urchin population off the southern Oregon Coast appears to have had an indirect and negative impact on the gray whales that usually forage in the region, a new study ...
May 20, 2024 — Glaciologists show evidence of warm ocean water intruding kilometers beneath grounded ice at Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The findings suggest that existing climate models are underestimating ...
May 20, 2024 — A team delves into the spatiotemporal patterns of water volume and total organic carbon concentration of agricultural ...
May 20, 2024 — Variations in water quality can impact the development of the visual system of one species of African fish, suggests a new ...
May 20, 2024 — We are living in a world surrounded by liquid and flow, and understanding the principles that govern its movement is vital in our high-tech world. Through mathematical modeling and experimentation, ...
May 17, 2024 — An international team of scientists has revealed high levels of toxic metals in global phosphate fertilizers using a isotopic variants of the element strontium as a tracer to uncover metals in soil, ...
May 17, 2024 — A new commentary paper puts forth a transformative solution to the unsustainable reliance on fossil resources by the chemical industry: catalysis to leverage sustainable waste resources, ushering the ...
May 16, 2024 — The new technique will map the top of the aquifer, called the 'water table,' spanning areas as large as hundreds of kilometers using a radar mounted on a high-altitude aircraft. According ...
Friday, May 24, 2024
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- The Global Clean Water Crisis Looms Large
- Constantly on the Hunt for Food: Harbor Porpoises More Vulnerable Than Previously Thought
- Sexual Parasitism Helped Anglerfish Invade the Deep Sea During a Time of Global Warming
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
- Cement Recycling Method Could Help Solve One of the World's Biggest Climate Challenges
- Smoke Covered 70% of California During Biggest Wildfire Years
- 'Fossilizing' Cracks in Infrastructure Creates Sealing That Can Even Survive Earthquakes
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
- Alaska's Rusting Waters: Pristine Rivers and Streams Turning Orange
- Recycling Carbon Dioxide Into Household Chemicals
- Green Infrastructure Plans Need to Consider Historical Racial Inequalities
- Warming Climate Intensifies Flash Droughts Worldwide
- A Rise in Sea Urchins and Related Damage to Kelp Forests Impacts Oregon's Gray Whales and Their Food
Monday, May 20, 2024
- 'Vigorous Melting' At Antarctica's Thwaites 'Doomsday' Glacier
- Unraveling the Drought Dilemma: Can Reservoirs Be a Carbon Source?
- Cloudy Waters Causes African Fish to Develop Bigger Eyes
- Expanding on the Fundamental Principles of Liquid Movement
Friday, May 17, 2024
- Scientists Develop New Geochemical 'fingerprint' To Trace Contaminants in Fertilizer
- Can We Revolutionize the Chemical Industry and Create a Circular Economy? Yes, With the Help of Catalysts
Thursday, May 16, 2024
- Airborne Technology Brings New Hope to Map Shallow Aquifers in Earth's Most Arid Deserts
- 'Forever Chemicals' Found to Rain Down on All Five Great Lakes
- Polyglycerol Coating: A Breakthrough in Safer Nanoparticle Environmental Remediation
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- Jet-Propelled Sea Creatures Could Improve Ocean Robotics
- From Roots to Resilience: Investigating the Vital Role of Microbes in Coastal Plant Health
- Copper Can't Be Mined Fast Enough to Electrify the US
- Making Batteries Takes a Lot of Lithium: Some Could Come from Gas Well Wastewater
- Final Dust Settles Slowly in the Deep Sea
- Studying Bubbles Can Lead to More Efficient Biofuel Motors
- Now We Know, What Gets Roots to Grow: Can Help in Future Droughts
- Climate Change Is Most Prominent Threat to Pollinators
- Next-Generation Sustainable Electronics Are Doped With Air
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- Scientists Develop an Affordable Sensor for Lead Contamination
- Petroleum, Chlorine Mix Could Yield Harmful Byproducts
- How Wildfires Change Soil Chemistry
Monday, May 13, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
- New 'forever Chemical' Cleanup Strategy Discovered
- Transformation of Ocean Management Is Underway
- How Climate Change Will Affect Malaria Transmission
- Manganese Sprinkled With Iridium: A Quantum Leap in Green Hydrogen Production
- Saturated Soils Could Impact Survival of Young Trees Planted to Address Climate Change
- Getting Dirty to Clean Up the Chemical Industry's Environmental Impact
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
- Human Activity Is Making It Harder for Scientists to Interpret Oceans' Past
- Climate Resilience Strategies in Urban, Rural Areas
- Limited Adaptability Makes Freshwater Bacteria Vulnerable to Climate Change
- Swarms of Miniature Robots Clean Up Microplastics and Microbes, Simultaneously
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
Friday, May 3, 2024
- Did a Magnetic Field Collapse Trigger the Emergence of Animals?
- Ice Shelves Fracture Under Weight of Meltwater Lakes
- Plants Utilize Drought Stress Hormone to Block Snacking Spider Mites
Monday, May 6, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- New Eco-Friendly Lubricant Additives Protect Turbine Equipment, Waterways
- For Microscopic Organisms, Ocean Currents Act as 'expressway' To Deeper Depths
- Oil Palm Plantations Are Driving Massive Downstream Impact to Watershed
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- Mystery Behind Huge Opening in Antarctic Sea Ice Solved
- Improved AI Process Could Better Predict Water Supplies
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Researchers Develop an AI Model to Reduce Uncertainty in Evapotranspiration Prediction
- A Virus Could Help Save Billions of Gallons of Wastewater Produced by Fracking
- Unlocking the Genetic Mysteries Behind Plant Adaptation: New Insights Into the Evolution of a Water-Saving Trait in the Pineapple Family (Bromeliaceae)
Friday, April 26, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- The Longer Spilled Oil Lingers in Freshwater, the More Persistent Compounds It Produces
- How Do Birds Flock? Researchers Do the Math to Reveal Previously Unknown Aerodynamic Phenomenon
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Human Activities Have an Intense Impact on Earth's Deep Subsurface Fluid Flow
- Managing Meandering Waterways in a Changing World
- How Light Can Vaporize Water Without the Need for Heat
- Nanofibers Rid Water of Hazardous Dyes
- This Salt Battery Harvests Osmotic Energy Where the River Meets the Sea
- High-Resolution Lidar Sees Birth Zone of Cloud Droplets
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Frog Species Evolved Rapidly in Response to Road Salts
- Critical Minerals Recovery from Electronic Waste
- Warming Climate Is Putting More Metals Into Colorado's Mountain Streams
- 'Sunny Day Flooding' Increases Fecal Contamination of Coastal Waters
- Laser-Treated Cork Absorbs Oil for Carbon-Neutral Ocean Cleanup
- Tropical Fish Are Invading Australian Ocean Water
- No Bull: How Creating Less-Gassy Cows Could Help Fight Climate Change
Monday, April 22, 2024
- World's Oases Threatened by Desertification, Even as Humans Expand Them
- Feedback Loop That Is Melting Ice Shelves in West Antarctica Revealed
Friday, April 19, 2024
- Surf Clams Off the Coast of Virginia Reappear -- And Rebound
- The Italian Central Apennines as a Source of CO2
- Weather Prediction Models Can Also Forecast Satellite Displacements
- Warming of Antarctic Deep-Sea Waters Contribute to Sea Level Rise in North Atlantic, Study Finds
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- East Coast Mussel Shells Are Becoming More Porous in Warming Waters
- How Soil Microbes Survive in Harsh Desert Environments
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Coral Reef Microbes Point to New Way to Assess Ecosystem Health
- Trash to Treasure -- Researchers Turn Metal Waste Into Catalyst for Hydrogen
- Huge Database Gives Insight Into Salmon Patterns at Sea
- Plastic Pollution Can Kill Variety of Ocean Embryos
- Florida Wildlife Corridor Eases Worst Impacts of Climate Change
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Hidden Threat: Global Underground Infrastructure Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise
- Microplastics Make Their Way from the Gut to Other Organs
- Switch to Green Wastewater Infrastructure Could Reduce Emissions and Provide Huge Savings According to New Research
- Pyrite, Also Known as Fool's Gold, May Contain Valuable Lithium, a Key Element for Green Energy
- New Radar Analysis Method Can Improve Winter River Safety
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Researchers Study Effects of Solvation and Ion Valency on Metallopolymers
- Retention Ponds Can Deliver a Substantial Reduction in Tire Particle Pollution
- PFAS Exposure from High Seafood Diets May Be Underestimated
- Oceanographers Uncover the Vital Role of Mixing Down of Oxygen in Sustaining Deep Sea Health