Seafloor sediments appear to enhance Earthquake and Tsunami danger in Pacific Northwest
The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has all the ingredients for making powerful earthquakes -- and according to the...
Archeological discovery yields clues to how our ancestors may have adapted to their environment
During the Stone Age ancestral humans lived with a variety of animal species along what was an area of wetlands in the middle of...
Managing crab and lobster catches could offer long-term benefits
A study has found that managing the density of crab and lobster pots at an optimum level increases the quality of catch, benefits the...
Hyena scavenging provides public health and economic benefits to African cities
Hyenas are frequently vilified and often feared. Hemingway once described the hyena as a stinking, foul devourer of the dead, with jaws that crack...
Barcelona to ban old cars from roads to tackle air pollution.
Motorists will be prohibited from driving vehicles older than 20 years on weekdays from 2019 in effort to cut emissions
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Barcelona city council says the...
Greenhouse gases: First it was cows, now it’s larvae
A certain species of larva uses methane to propel itself, and it is even possible that this mechanism is accelerating the release of gases...
The key role of forests in meeting climate targets requires science for credible mitigation
Figure 2 compares the historical LULUCF trend from our analysis with three other well-known global LULUCF data sets: (i) latest country reports to UNFCCC (refs 13,15,16,20); (ii) FAOSTAT...
Canary in the kelp forest: Sea creature dissolves in today’s warming, acidic waters
The one-two punch of warming waters and ocean acidification is predisposing some marine animals to dissolving quickly under conditions already occurring off the Northern...
Two new species of stone centipedes found hiding in larch forests in China
Scientists described two species of previously unknown stone centipedes from China. Now housed at the Hengshui University, China, the studied specimens were all collected...
Model-based assessments for long-term climate strategies
Model-based assessments for long-term climate strategiesModel-based assessments for long-term climate strategies, Published online: 22 April 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0453-5Many countries are formulating a long-term climate strategy...