Aquatic rest stops may pose potential hazards for migratory waterfowl
Migratory waterfowl around the world travel hundreds to thousands of miles annually, stopping at lakes, ponds and marshes to refuel and breed. Some of...
Mineral resources: Exhaustion is just a myth, say scientists
Recent articles have declared that deposits of mineral raw materials (copper, zinc, etc.) will be exhausted within a few decades. An international team of...
Hydrological drought amplifies wildfires in Borneo’s humid tropics
The area of wildfires in Borneo during drought years turns out to be ten times larger than during non-drought years, an international research team...
How fluids flow through shale
Current drilling and fracturing methods can't extract oil and natural gas very well, recovering an estimated 5 percent of oil and 20 percent of...
Leaf litter has slower decomposition rate than expected in warm temps
Ecologists have found that leaf litter is not as sensitive to increases in temperature as ecologists once thought.
Some — but not all — corals adapting to warming climate
A new study reveals evidence that some corals are adapting to warming ocean waters -- potentially good news in the face of recent reports...
1000 km range for e-cars thanks to a new battery concept
You cannot get far today with electric cars. One reason is that the batteries require a lot of space. Scientists are stacking large cells...
Recycling for carbon fiber composites
Scientists have developed a promising way to recycle the popular carbon fiber plastics that are used in everything from modern airplanes and sporting goods...
Climate instability over the past 720,000 years
A new analysis of an ice core from Dome Fuji in Antarctica, along with climate simulation results, shows a high degree of climate instability...
Antarctic ice rift spreads
The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica now has a second branch, which is moving in the direction of the ice...
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