Air pollution can accelerate lung disease as much as a pack a day of...
Air pollution -- especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change -- accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to...
Non-native invasive insects, diseases decreasing carbon stored in US forests
Scientists have found that non-native invasive insects and diseases are reducing the amount of carbon stored in trees across the United States.
Studying largest impact crater in the US, buried for 35 million years
About 35 million years ago, an asteroid hit the ocean off the East Coast of North America. Its impact formed a 25-mile diameter crater...
Microbes have adapted to live on food that is hundreds of years old
Microbial communities living in deep aquatic sediments have adapted to survive on degraded organic matter, according to a new study.
Key factors in how some algae harness solar energy
Scientists have discovered how diatoms -- a type of alga that produce 20 percent of the Earth's oxygen -- harness solar energy for photosynthesis....
Non-smokers can get emphysema from air pollution
Long-term exposure to air pollution was linked to increases in emphysema between 2000 and 2018, according to a new study.
Making microbes that transform greenhouse gases
A new technique will help not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the potential to reduce the overall dependence on petroleum.
New water-beetle species show biodiversity still undiscovered in at-risk South American habitats
Researchers have described three genera and 17 new species of water scavenger beetles from the Guiana and Brazilian Shield regions of South America.
Satellite study reveals that area in Africa emits one billion tonnes of carbon
A vast region of Africa affected by drought and changing land use emits as much carbon dioxide each year as 200 million cars, research...
Growth of wind energy points to future challenges, promise
Advances in adapting the technology and better methods for predicting wind conditions have fanned significant growth of the use of wind turbines for electricity...
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