How global warming affects astronomical observations
Astronomical observations from ground-based telescopes are sensitive to local atmospheric conditions. Anthropogenic climate change will negatively affect some of these conditions at observation sites...
Warming oceans are changing Australian reef fish populations
Shallow reefs and the creatures that inhabit them are changing due to rising ocean temperatures, but these impacts have been obscured by a lack...
Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go, study finds
The move to electric vehicles will result in large costs for generating, transmitting, and storing more power. Shifting current EV charging from home to...
Study connects decomposing body’s BMI to surrounding soil microbes
Researchers investigated how the process of human body decomposition affected microbial life of the surrounding soil microbiome. One factor that may play an important...
An integrated modeling framework to assess surface and ground water resources
In a new study, researchers applied a large-scale model linking surface water to groundwater, which can be used for estimating water resources at a...
Anthropogenic air pollution more significant than desert dust
At the beginning of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the Middle East ranks among the regions with the worst air...
Researchers create synthetic rocks to better understand how increasingly sought-after rare earth elements form
Researchers have shed new light on the formation of increasingly precious rare earth elements (REEs) by creating synthetic rocks and testing their responses to...
Dietary impacts of invasive mice on Farallon Islands
On an island 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco, a hoard of invasive house mice are packing an ecological wallop far larger...
Groundbreaking discovery from South Africa challenges the recent re-interpretation of magma chambers
The traditional hypothesis about totally molten magma chambers (key to volcanic activity) may just be correct, despite some recent studies claiming otherwise. Wits researchers...
Seeing the unseen: Birth and death of tree roots under a future atmosphere
Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes trees to put more resource into developing root systems below ground.
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