Pandemic adversely impacts already stressed national forests, research finds
Researchers found a dramatic increase during the pandemic of visitors to the parks and protected areas of New England that resulted in significant social,...
How to balance biodiversity goals with limited economic resources
In 2019, a landmark report gave the world its first report card on biodiversity loss. There was one crystal clear conclusion: human actions threaten...
Huge Amazon swamp carbon stores under threat
The largest peatlands in the Amazon rainforest, which hold a vast, concentrated amount of carbon, are under increasing threat from changing land use, research...
Seafloor spreading has been slowing down
A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. Geologists want to know...
Factors including extreme winds, topography and vegetation influenced the severity of burns from Oregon’s...
In a new study examining burn patterns from the 2020 Labor Day fires, researchers studied the influence of weather, topography, vegetation and other factors...
Exposure assessment for Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Health outcomes
Mathematicians have developed statistical methods that lay the framework for the crucial first step of determining whether there are any linkages between exposures and...
The link between transit use and early COVID cases
A new study looks at the association between America's mass transportation usage and case counts in opening months of the pandemic.
Pollution from cooking emissions hangs in the air
Organic aerosols -- such as those released in cooking -- may stay in the atmosphere for several days, because of nanostructures formed by fatty...
Genomic time machine in sea sponges
Sponges in coral reefs, less flashy than their coral neighbors but important to the overall health of reefs, are among the earliest animals on...
Ice shards in Antarctic clouds let more solar energy reach Earth’s surface
Clouds come in myriad shapes, sizes and types, which control their effects on climate. New research shows that splintering of frozen liquid droplets to...
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