Engineers examine drinking water management strategies
While residents in California are still dealing with damage from last month's floods -- after years of devastating droughts -- engineers are looking at...
Mistaken fossil rewrites history of Indian subcontinent for second time
Scientists discovered the first-ever Dickinsonia fossil in India two years ago, changing our understanding of how the continent came to be. Now, new research...
Looking beyond microplastics, researchers find that cotton and synthetic microfibers impact behavior and growth...
While microplastics have received significant attention in recent years for their negative environmental impacts, a new study has found microfibers from synthetic materials as...
Climate change may cut US forest inventory by a fifth this century
A study found that under more severe climate warming scenarios, the inventory of trees used for timber in the continental United States could decline...
Chess players face a tough foe: Air pollution
Chess players perform worse when air pollution increases, according to new research.
Protected areas fail to safeguard more than 75% of global insect species
Insects play crucial roles in almost every ecosystem -- they pollinate more than 80% of plants and are a major source of food for...
Passive radiative cooling can now be controlled electrically
Energy-efficient ways of cooling buildings and vehicles will be required in a changing climate. Researchers have now shown that electrical tuning of passive radiative...
Western wildfires destroying more homes per square mile burned
Between 2010 and 2020, human ignitions started 76% of the Western wildfires that destroyed structures, and those fires tended to be in flammable areas...
To know where the birds are going, researchers turn to citizen science and machine...
Computer scientists recently announced a new, predictive model that is capable of accurately forecasting where a migratory bird will go next -- one of...
Seawater split to produce ‘green’ hydrogen
Researchers have successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen.
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