Citizen scientists offer ray of hope
Volunteer snorkelers and scuba divers have been helping capture images of reef manta rays to better protect the threatened species. Project Manta relied on...
Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of seawater
As populations boom and chronic droughts persist, coastal cities like Carlsbad in Southern California have increasingly turned to ocean desalination to supplement a dwindling...
Walkability is key: A look at greenspace use
New research suggests the key to getting more people to use public greenspaces may be making access to them easier and safer.
Clearing up the ‘dark side’ of artificial leaves
While artificial leaves hold promise as a way to take carbon dioxide -- a potent greenhouse gas -- out of the atmosphere, there is...
How to recognize where a volcano will erupt
Scientists have devised a new method to forecast volcanic vent locations.
Magnetic ‘springs’ break down marine microplastic pollution
Using tiny coil-shaped carbon-based magnets, researchers have developed a new approach to purging water sources of the microplastics that pollute them without harming nearby...
Krypton reveals ancient water beneath the Israeli desert
Getting reliable precipitation data from the past has proven difficult, as is predicting regional changes for climate models in the present. A combination of...
Animal friendships ‘change with the weather’ in the Masai Mara
When it comes to choosing which other species to hang out with, wild animals quite literally change their minds with the weather, a new...
Faint foreshocks foretell California quakes
New research mining data from a catalog of more than 1.8 million southern California earthquakes found that nearly three-fourths of the time, foreshocks signalled...
Decoupling from China on clean tech comes with far more risks than reward, study...
The current U.S. trajectory to decouple from China on clean energy technologies can harm national and global efforts to mitigate climate change, reveals a...