Greening the city: A measurement for a mindful environment
Scientists have developed the world's first Tranquillity Rating Prediction Tool (TRAPT), a scientific process for measuring how relaxing urban environments and public spaces are.
Improved representation of solar variability in climate models
For upcoming climate model studies, scientists can use a new, significantly improved data set for solar forcing. Scientists have now published the details of...
Guidelines to reduce the risk of minor earthquakes during hydraulic fracturing
Researchers are advising on new safety guidelines for hydraulic fracturing to help prevent minor earthquakes.
Increased tropical zone will lead to droughts, heatwaves.
The expanding tropical zone could impact Australia.THE Earth’s waistline is bulging and the tropical atmosphere is expanding towards Australia, which could have disastrous consequences....
Increased air pollution cuts victims’ lifespan by a decade, costing billions
One of the benefits to cutting fossil fuel consumption is lowering air pollution. A new study shows that, on average, an increase in pollution...
Sea spray losing its sparkle?
Atmospheric aerosols are tiny particles that scatter and absorb sunlight but also influence climate indirectly through their role in cloud formation. One of the...
Rendering plant overwhelmed by dead cows, causing crisis for farmers.
Farmers in Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties are disposing of hundreds of cows that died in the June heat wave, overwhelming the region’s largest...
GOP chairmen may join Dems to preserve Obama auto regs.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) is helping draft a letter to President Trump about preserving the fuel economy program for cars. Gage Skidmore/Flickr
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Ireland is world’s ‘most carbon-efficient milk producer.'
Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has dismissed criticisms of his department’s record on climate change, describing the Irish dairy sector as the “most carbon-efficient...
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