Noise and light pollution can change which birds visit our backyards
Using more than 3.4 million citizen scientist observations of 140 different bird species across the continental U.S., researchers found that common bird species avoided...
Declining growth rates of global coral reef ecosystems
If the trend of declining coral growth continues at the current rate, the world's coral reefs may cease calcifying around 2054, a new study...
Dinosaurs lived in greenhouse climate with hot summers, study shows
Researchers have developed an innovative way to use the clumped isotope method to reconstruct climate in the geological past on the seasonal scale. They...
Study of Hurricane Harvey flooding aids in quantifying climate change
Researchers used a hydraulic model to consider the degree to which human-caused climate change may have affected flooding in Houston in 2017 during Hurricane...
Improved climate resilience through better seasonal forecasts
Lack of water, floods, or crop losses: As a result of climate change, pronounced periods of drought and rainfall are causing human suffering and...
Research establishes safe water thresholds for antimicrobials, to help mitigate resistance
Scientists summarize and critically appraise the current approaches to determining the concentrations of antimicrobials that increase AMR. By collating and assessing available data, they...
Botany: Scent of death attracts coffin flies to pipevine flowers
Plant researchers have discovered an unusual and previously unknown reproductive strategy in plants: the Greek pipevine species 'Aristolochia microstoma' produces a unique mixture of...
The rocky road to accurate sea-level predictions
The type of material present under glaciers has a big impact on how fast they slide towards the ocean. Scientists face a challenging task...
Soot from heaters and traffic is not just a local problem
Soot particles from oil and wood heating systems as well as road traffic can pollute the air in Europe on a much larger scale...
Institutional environments trap disabled geoscientists between a rock and a workplace
Inaccessible workplaces, normative departmental cultures and 'ableist' academic systems have all contributed to the continued under-representation and exclusion of disabled researchers, according to an...
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