A global health guardian: climate change, air pollution, and antimicrobial resistance (report)
Global defences against universal transboundary threats to health, like climate change, air pollution and antimicrobial resistance, depend on WHO’s role as a guardian of...
Why 'ocean is the new climate,' and what it means for business
On April 29, thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of Washington, D.C. and other cities to show their support for climate change action. Just...
Holy chickens: Did Medieval religious rules drive domestic chicken evolution?
Chickens were domesticated from Asian jungle fowl around 6,000 years ago. Since domestication they have acquired a number of traits that are valuable to...
Flexible, organic and biodegradable: Researchers develop new wave of electronics
A new semiconductor is as flexible as skin and easily degradable, report scientists. It could have diverse medical and environmental applications, without adding to...
Wastewater injection rates may have been key to Oklahoma’s largest earthquake
Changes to the rate of wastewater injection in disposal wells may have contributed to conditions that led to last year's Pawnee earthquake in Oklahoma,...
Not even the Himalayas are immune to traffic smog
Researchers find evidence of truck pollution in one of the most remote corners of the planet: the Himalayas.
Radical idea could restore ice in the Arctic Ocean.
Leave it to a researcher who studies icy moons in the outer solar system to come up with an out-there scheme to restore vanishing...
This gigantic art octopus is the key to a coral reef revival.
On a rainy day in mid-April, a group of artists, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, and locals gathered on the shore of Virgin Gorda in the British...
Geologists use radioactive clock to document longest earthquake record
Using radioactive elements trapped in crystallized, cream-colored 'veins' in New Mexican rock, geologists have peered back in time more than 400,000 years to illuminate...
This drone once fought wars. Now it’s fighting climate change.
This March, a truck pulled onto a runway in Oregon, towing a miniature plane for a test flight. At 650 pounds, the plane was...
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