Climate change affects floods in Europe
For a long time, scientists argued whether or not climate change is affecting floods. No clear trends seemed to be evident. Now, in a...
New DNA sequencer method achieves early-stage and broad-range detection of wheat diseases
As wheat is one of the world's most important crops, a group of scientists wanted to develop a new method for analyzing pathogen DNA...
Community-based wildlife carcass surveillance is key for early detection of Ebola virus
Scientists have developed a low-cost educational outreach program and surveillance system for wildlife mortality that has continued now for over a decade.
More rain yet less water expected for up to 250 million people along the...
An increase in the frequency of hot and dry years could impact the water and food supplies for hundreds of millions of people in...
Europe warming faster than expected due to climate change
Climate change is increasing the number of days of extreme heat and decreasing the number of days of extreme cold in Europe, posing a...
Isotopes in feces show where secretive jaguars hunt
To track secretive jaguars in the forested mountains of Belize, biologists turned to geology and feces analysis. Researchers discovered that jaguar scat reveals where...
Nuclear winter would threaten nearly everyone on Earth
If the United States and Russia waged an all-out nuclear war, much of the land in the Northern Hemisphere would be below freezing in...
Scientists call for infiltration to be better incorporated into land surface models
Soil scientists can't possibly be everywhere at once to study every bit of soil across the planet. Plus, soils are constantly changing.
Using artificial intelligence to track birds’ dark-of-night migrations
Researchers have unveiled a machine learning system called 'MistNet' to extract bird data from the radar record and to take advantage of the treasure...
Water harvester makes it easy to quench your thirst in the desert
In 2017, chemists demonstrated that a new MOF design could rapidly adsorb water from even dry air, allowing it to be condensed and collected...
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