Climate change linked to more flowery forests
New research has revealed a surprising relationship between surging atmospheric carbon dioxide and flower blooms in a remote tropical forest.
A survival lesson from bats: Eating variety keeps species multiplying
A new study reveals that omnivorous New World noctilionoid bats, those species with diets including both plant and animal materials, produce more new species...
Animal carnivores could be our powerful allies
Animal carnivores living in and around human habitation are declining at an unprecedented rate -- but they may provide crucial benefits to human societies....
Temporary ‘bathtub drains’ in the ocean concentrate flotsam
An experiment using hundreds of plastic drifters in the Gulf of Mexico shows that rather than simply spread out, as current calculations would predict,...
Long-term warming trend continued in 2017: NASA, NOAA
Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.90 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1951 to 1980...
20 percent more trees in megacities would mean cleaner air and water, lower carbon...
Planting 20 percent more trees in our megacities would double the benefits of urban forests, like pollution reduction, carbon sequestration and energy reduction. The...
Using data mining to make sense of climate change
Experts have developed a new way of mining data from climate data sets that is more self-contained than traditional tools. The methodology brings out...
How did a deadly tropical fungus get to the temperate environs of the Pacific...
In what is being described as 'The Teddy Roosevelt effect,' a deadly fungus in the Pacific Northwest may have arrived from Brazil via the...
Atmospheric changes leave their mark in tree rings
A new study shows the chemical register of climate change and global episodes such as volcanic eruptions in high-mountain centennial forests in the Iberian...
Large volcanic island flank collapses trigger catastrophic eruptions
New research not only implies a link between catastrophic volcanic eruptions and landslides, but also suggests that landslides are the trigger. At the heart...
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