Mexican mangroves have been capturing carbon for 5,000 years
Researchers have identified a new reason to protect mangrove forests: they've been quietly keeping carbon out of Earth's atmosphere for the past 5,000 years.
Researchers go ‘outside the box’ to delineate major ocean currents
Researchers have quantified the energy of ocean currents larger than 1,000 kilometers. Using a novel coarse-graining technique, they have discovered that the most energetic...
Pollutants from burning structures linger in waterways post-wildfire
As the frequency of wildfires has increased, so have pollutants in the waters from burned watersheds, say researchers in a review paper that highlights...
Researchers discover expanding and intensifying low-oxygen zone in the Arabian gulf
Researchers have studied the emergence of hypoxia -- low oxygen levels -- in the Gulf over three decades, a stressor on the health of...
Earth’s newest secret: How volcanoes really work
It isn't every day that we learn something that fundamentally changes how we understand our world. But for volcanologists across the globe, such a...
Decoupling from China on clean tech comes with far more risks than reward, study...
The current U.S. trajectory to decouple from China on clean energy technologies can harm national and global efforts to mitigate climate change, reveals a...
Millions of farmers ‘replumb’ the world’s largest delta
Collective groundwater pumping by millions of farmers in Bangladesh in the dry season each year has created vast natural reservoirs underground that, over a...
Popular sport fish are behaviorally impaired from exposure to crude oil, study finds
New research has confirmed that a popular sport fish exposed to sublethal levels of crude oil and released back into the wild exhibits altered...
Ecologists find evidence that pet and medicine trades bring tokay geckos from across Asia...
New research has been investigating the origins of tokay geckos in Hong Kong, both the wild ones and those sold in Traditional Chinese Medicine...
Byzantine solar eclipse records illuminate obscure history of Earth’s rotation
To improve understanding of variation of Earth's rotation in the 4th--7th centuries CE, a research team analyzed Byzantine records from this period to identify...
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