Distant earthquakes can cause underwater landslides
New research finds large earthquakes can trigger underwater landslides thousands of miles away, weeks or months after the quake occurs.
Regulating the indirect land use carbon emissions imposes high hidden costs on fuel
Biofuel policies like the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard in California are trying to minimize the indirect land use change related emissions by accounting for the...
Safeguarding sustainability through forest certification mapping
How can we ensure forest protection and sustainable forest biomass production at the same time? A first-ever global map of certified forest areas, based...
The dust storm microbiome
The airborne dust carried in sand storms affects the health of people and ecosystems alike. New research suggests that part of the effect might...
New photoacoustic technique detects gases at parts-per-quadrillion level
A new technique enables the detection of gases, such as atmospheric pollutants, present in extremely small quantities that are otherwise difficult or impossible to...
As climate stirs Arctic sea ice faster, pollution tags along
A warming climate is not just melting the Arctic's sea ice; it is stirring the remaining ice faster, increasing the odds that ice-rafted pollution...
How grassland management without the loss of species works
The intensive management of grasslands is bad for biodiversity. However, a new study has brought a ray of hope: If different forms of management...
Could this strategy bring high-speed communications to the deep sea?
A new strategy for sending acoustic waves through water could potentially open up the world of high-speed communications to divers, marine research vessels, remote...
Collapse of European ice sheet caused chaos in past
Scientists have reconstructed in detail the collapse of the Eurasian ice sheet at the end of the last ice age. The big melt wreaked...
Team launches ‘comb and copter’ system to map atmospheric gases
Researchers have demonstrated a new mobile, ground-based system that could scan and map atmospheric gas plumes over kilometer distances.
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