World’s ocean is losing its ‘memory’ under global warming
Using future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study found that most of the world's ocean is steadily losing...
The forest as a shelter for insects in warmer climates?
Insect diversity is declining in Bavaria. Land use is a major driver, but the impact of climate change is still unknown. A study has...
Operating rooms are the climate change contributor no one’s talking about
The health care industry accounts for about 8.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and surgery is one of hospitals' biggest...
Saving the Mekong delta from ‘drowning’
Southeast Asia's most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong River Delta...
European farmland could be biggest global reservoir of microplastics, study suggests
Farmlands across Europe are potentially the biggest global reservoir of microplastics due to the high concentrations found in fertilizers derived from sewage sludge, new...
Invasive species and climate change impact coastal estuaries
Native species in California's estuaries are expected to experience greater declines as invasive species interact with climate change, according to a new study.
Land-building marsh plants are champions of carbon capture
Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only 1% of Earth's surface...
Water scarcity predicted to worsen in more than 80% of croplands globally this century
Agricultural water scarcity is expected to increase in more than 80% of the world's croplands by 2050, according to a new study.
The mystery solved about the active phase in catalytic carbon dioxide reduction to methanol
Researchers have been able to study the surface of a copper-zinc catalyst when carbon dioxide is reduced to methanol. A better knowledge of the...
In sediments below Antarctic ice, scientists discover a giant groundwater system
A team has mapped a huge, actively circulating groundwater system in deep sediments in West Antarctica. They say such systems, probably common in Antarctica,...
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