Research gaps in environmental science disciplines across the Arctic
More sampling is needed particularly in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, northern Greenland, northern Taimyr, and central and eastern Siberia.
Climate signals detected in global weather
Searched for and found: climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at the global scale. They are...
Climate change and deforestation could decimate Madagascar’s rainforest habitat by 2070
A study has found that, left unchecked, the combined effects of deforestation and human-induced climate change could eliminate Madagascar's entire eastern rainforest habitat by...
Sustainable supply of minerals and metals key to a low-carbon energy future
The global low-carbon revolution could be at risk unless new international agreements and governance mechanisms are put in place to ensure a sustainable supply...
Climate change impacted Hurricane Florence’s precipitation and size
A new modeling framework showed that Hurricane Florence produced more extreme rainfall and was spatially larger due to human-induced climate change.
Starry eyes on the reef: Color-changing brittle stars can see
Scientists have shown for the first time that brittle stars use vision to guide them through vibrant coral reefs, thanks to a neat color-changing...
Researchers learn more about teen-age T.Rex
A team studied two mid-sized tyrannosaur skeletons and concluded they were in fact teenage T.Rex and not a new pygmy species. They also studied...
All global sustainability is local
Groundbreaking ways to quantify progress towards sustainable development goals find sustainability, like politics, is local.
Global extent of river ice loss as Earth warms
A new study found that annual river ice cover will decline by about six days for every one degree Celsius increase in global temperatures....
Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus
Life as we know it requires phosphorus, and lots of it. But phosphorus is scarce. A new study reports that certain types of carbonate-rich...
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