Single-family homes killed L.A.’s urban forest

Analyzing aerial imagery, scientists have found a loss of green cover up to 55 percent in single-family home lots of the Los Angeles region...

Pollution from Canada’s oil sands may be underreported.

Canadian scientists have found that the standard way of tallying air and climate pollution from Alberta’s oil sands vastly understates pollution levels there —...

Babbler bird falls into climate change trap

Animals can fall into an 'ecological trap' by altering their behavior in the 'wrong direction' in response to climate change, researchers say.

Oblique electrostatic inject-deposited TiO2 film for efficient perovskite solar cells

The need to efficiently harvest solar energy for a more sustainable future is increasingly becoming accepted across the globe. A new family of solar...

Spider monkey groups as collective computers

New research shows that spider monkeys use collective computation to figure out the best way to find food.

Returning land to nature with high-yield farming

The expansion of farmlands to meet the growing food demand of the world's ever expanding population places a heavy burden on natural ecosystems. A...

Past is key to predicting future climate, scientists say

A group of climate experts make the case for including paleoclimate data in the development of climate models. Such models are used globally to...

First global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

In the first-ever study on the characteristics of urbanization in large cities around the world, researchers at the University of Hong Kong analyzed cities'...

Untapped resource, or greenhouse gas threat, found below rifting axis off Okinawa coast

Using an automated method to create a high-resolution map of the seismic velocity below the seafloor, researchers found a large-scale gas reservoir in an...

Heated rivalries for pollinators among Arctic plants

Insect pollination is as important to Arctic plants as it is to plants further south. When flowers abound, the plants have to compete for...

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