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Showing posts with label Environmental. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environmental. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Climate report: Earth on dangerous path but rapid action can avert the worst outcomes

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Palisades Fire. Photo taken Jan. 8, 2025. Photo Credit: Cal Fire. 2024 was the hottest year on record and likely the hottest in at least 125...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Polar bears act as crucial providers for Arctic species

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Photo Credit: Credit: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance A new study published in the scientific journal Oikos reveals for the first time the ...

What Is: A Greenhouse Gas

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Image Credit: Skeptical Science ( CC BY 4.0 ) A greenhouse gas (GHG) is a constituent of the atmosphere that absorbs and emits longwave radi...

Trillions of insects fly above us - weather radar reveals alarming declines

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The marmalade hoverfly is a well known migrant that comes across the Channel each year. Photo Credit: Christopher Hassall Scientists have ma...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Retreating Glaciers May Send Fewer Nutrients to the Ocean

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Northwestern Glacier in Alaska has retreated approximately 15 kilometers (nine miles) since 1950. Photo Credit: Kiefer Forsch/Scripps Instit...

Dusty air is rewriting your lung microbiome

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UCR researcher collecting dust from the Salton Sea. Photo Credit: Linton Freund/UCR Dust from California’s drying Salton Sea doesn’t just sm...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Increasing Heat is Super-Charging Arctic Climate and Weather Extremes

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Photo Credit:  Master Unknown By evaluating historical climate records, observational and projection data, an international team of research...

Tropical rivers emit less greenhouse gases than previously thought

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Lowland tropical rivers emit large quantities of greenhouse gases, with rates influenced by seasonal flooding. Photo Credit: Jenny Davis Tro...

How Hard Is It to Dim the Sun

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An illustration of climate geoengineering techniques, including stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), cirrus cloud thinning (CCT), and mari...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Retired croplands offer hope for carbon storage

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An experiment at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve tested the long-term ability of abandoned farmland to store carbon. Photo Credit: Mao...
Friday, October 17, 2025

What Is: Extinction Level Events

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A Chronicle of Earth's Biotic Crises and an Assessment of Future Threats Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Defining Biotic Catastrophe ...

A New Study Indicates Forest Regeneration Provides Climate Benefits, but Won’t Offset Fossil Fuels

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Forest regrowth after 5 years since agricultural abandonment near Pucallpa, Ucayali, Peru. Photo Credit: Jorge Vela Alvarado, Universidad Na...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Hotter does mean wetter

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How rising temperatures will affect rainfall in Japan. Illustration Credit: KyotoU / Takemi lab Around the world, we are already witnessing ...

Helping farmers, boosting biofuels

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Doug Collins and Teal Potter, co-authors on the new paper, stand in a field of triticale. The cover crop was grown to study its viability as...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Locking carbon in trees and soils could ‘stabilize climate for centuries’ – but only if combined with underground storage

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Photo Credit:  Veronica Lorine Research on a ‘portfolio approach’ to carbon removal enables firms to mix expensive tech-based solutions that...

Each fossil fuel project linked to additional global warming

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Photo Credit:  Roman Khripkov Individual fossil fuel projects can no longer be considered too small to matter according to new Australian re...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Study links wind-blown dust from receding Salton Sea to reduced lung function in area children

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Researchers with the UC Irvine-led study sample dust at the southern edge of the Salton Sea. Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public He...

“Cocktails” of common pharmaceuticals in our waterways may promote antibiotic resistance

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Photo Credit:  Nana K. New research has shown, for the first time, how mixtures of commonly used medications which end up in our waterways a...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

What Is: El Niño, La Niña, and a Climate in Flux

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / NOAA The Planet's Most Powerful Climate Cycle In 1997, a climatic event of unprecedented scale bega...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Climate change may increase the spread of neurotoxin in the oceans

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The researchers’ findings raise concerns about how climate change may affect the levels of methylmercury in fish and shellfish. Photo Credit...