How a cognitive bias is blocking the rise of electric cars
What are the barriers to the adoption of electric cars? Although the main financial and technological obstacles have been removed, their market share still...
How ice clouds develop: Asian monsoon influences large parts of the Northern Hemisphere
Atmospheric researchers have discovered a mechanism that allows nuclei for ice clouds to form and rapidly grow in the upper troposphere. Although the conditions...
Cooperation rewards water utilities
Inter-utility water agreements can help mitigate risks, in research that used supercomputer simulations of water supply in the North Carolina Research Triangle. Findings are...
Unlocking the secrets of killer whale diets and their role in climate change
Researchers have discovered new clues to understand how killer whales impact their environment.
Why baby leatherback marine turtles can’t ‘see the sea’
For most sea turtles, the journey to find the ocean from their nests is pretty straightforward. However, leatherback hatchlings more often crawl around in...
Satellite monitoring of biodiversity moves within reach
Global biodiversity assessments require the collection of data on changes in plant biodiversity on an ongoing basis. Researchers have now shown that plant communities...
Puzzling features deep in Earth’s interior illuminated
New research examines an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary layer with Earth's core, some three thousand kilometers beneath the surface.
Projecting changes in the water sources used for irrigation in South Asia
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 May 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01360-2Using a cryosphere–hydrology–crop model, future changes in the amount and sources of water withdrawals for irrigation...
South Asian agriculture increasingly dependent on meltwater and groundwater
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 May 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01355-zSouth Asian agriculture depends on water from rains, meltwater and groundwater, but climate change impacts the...
Sparking sustainable new chemical catalysts
New research could lead to the creation of new, sustainable catalysts based on tungsten oxide and similar compounds. The project used computational simulations to...
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