Innovative nanocoating technology harnesses sunlight to degrade microplastics
Low density polyethylene film (LDPE) microplastic fragments, successfully degraded in water using visible-light-excited heterogeneous ZnO photocatalysts.
Zebra stripes are not good landing strips
The stripes of a zebra deter horse flies from landing on them, according to a new study.
Researchers discover a flipping crab feeding on methane seeps
Researchers have documented a group of tanner crabs vigorously feeding at a methane seep on the seafloor off British Columbia -- one of the...
Fossil fuel combustion is the main contributor to black carbon around Arctic
Fossil fuel combustion is the main contributor to black carbon collected at five sites around the Arctic, which has implications for global warming, according...
Ingredients for water could be made on surface of moon, a chemical factory
When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the moon's surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1...
A volcanic binge and its frosty hangover
A major volcanic event could have triggered one of the largest glaciations in Earth's history -- the Gaskiers glaciation, which turned the Earth into...
Earth may be 140 years away from reaching carbon levels not seen in 56...
Total human carbon dioxide emissions could match those of Earth's last major greenhouse warming event in fewer than five generations, new research finds. A...
Protecting small forests fails to protect bird biodiversity
Simply protecting small forests will not maintain the diversity of the birds they support over the long run, a new study says. Forests need...
New insight into river flows and sediment transport under ice cover
The ice-covered season plays an important role in the development of river channels, a new study shows. The spatial variability of sediment transport and...
Complete world map of tree diversity
Researchers have succeeded in constructing, from scattered data, a world map of the diversity of tree species. Climate plays a central role for its...
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