Study reveals Stonehenge landscape before the world-famous monument
Four thousand years before Stonehenge was constructed, land within the World Heritage Site was covered by open woodland, with meadow-like clearings, inhabited by grazing...
Better residents’ health after switch to electric buses
The health of residents living alongside a bus route in Gothenburg, Sweden, became considerably better when hybrid buses were replaced by buses fully powered...
Research discovers new bacteria that stick to plastic in the deep sea to travel...
Scientists have found new types of plastic loving bacteria that stick to plastic in the deep sea that may enable them to 'hitchhike' across...
Dolphin bycatch from fishing practices unsustainable, study finds
An international team of researchers have developed a method to assess sustainable levels of human-caused wildlife mortality, which when applied to a trawl fishery...
Bay Area storms get wetter in a warming world
Researchers used supercomputers to run high-resolution climate simulations that show how historically-impactful storm events could look in a warmer world. The researchers simulated five...
From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button
Researchers created a portable desalination unit that can remove particles and salts simultaneously to generate drinking water. The user-friendly unit, which weighs less than...
Sampling the deep graveyard of Earth’s earliest crust
Scientists show that remnants of the roots of Earth's first crust are still present in the terrestrial mantle and contribute to magmas erupted at...
Scientists call for cap on production to end plastic pollution
An international group of experts says the production of new plastics should be capped to solve the plastic pollution problem. The authors argue that...
Mapping vegetation communities — using existing records for new insights
Ecologists have developed powerful modelling tools to predict the distributions of individual species, especially those of conservation importance.
New method can predict summer rainfall in the Southwest months in advance
As reservoir levels dwindle in the Southwest, scientists have developed a method to estimate summer rainfall in the region months in advance. These seasonal...
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