Cyclone researchers: Warming climate means more and stronger Atlantic tropical storms
Tropical cyclone researchers report a warming climate could increase the number of tropical cyclones and their intensity in the North Atlantic, potentially creating more...
How climate change impacts the Indian Ocean dipole, leading to severe droughts and floods
Researchers now have a much better understanding of how climate change can impact and cause sea water temperatures on one side of the Indian...
Specific outdoor air pollutants linked to asthma attacks in urban children
Moderate levels of two outdoor air pollutants, ozone and fine particulate matter, are associated with non-viral asthma attacks in children and adolescents who live...
Using machine learning to forecast amine emissions
Scientists have developed a machine learning approach to accurately predict potentially harmful amine emissions from carbon-capturing plants.
Climate risk insurance can effectively mitigate economic losses
Global warming is expected to lead to an accumulation of particularly intense hurricanes in the United States. This may substantially increase the economic losses...
Researchers detect fluoride in water with new simple color change test
Environmental contaminants like fluoride, lead and pesticides exist all around and even within us. While researchers have simple ways to measure concentrations of such...
Climate warming reduces organic carbon burial beneath oceans
An international team of scientists painstakingly gathered data from more than 50 years of seagoing scientific drilling missions to conduct a first-of-its-kind study of...
Map of ancient ocean ‘dead zones’ could predict future locations, impacts
Researchers have created a map of oceanic 'dead zones' that existed during the Pliocene epoch, when the Earth's climate was two to three degrees...
Climate impact labels on sample fast food menu had strong effect on food selection
A new study has found that including climate impact labels on a sample fast food menu influenced participants' food choices in favor of more...
‘Jumping genes’ help fungus kill salamanders
A fungus that infects salamanders contains multiple copies of the same 'jumping genes', scientists have discovered.
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