New scoring scale tracks the harmful effects of salt pollution in freshwater streams and...
A new study sheds light on how salinization from winter road salt combined with other pollutants creates 'chemical cocktails' that can jeopardize the ecological...
‘Sky is not the limit’ for solar geoengineering
There are practical limits to the height at which aerosols may be deployed in the atmosphere to deflect incoming sunlight and countervail global warming....
Maternal lead exposures correlated with sex ratios of offspring
Higher lead levels in a mother's blood can increase the chance of her bearing male offspring, according to new research.
Author Correction: Enhanced risk of concurrent regional droughts with increased ENSO variability and warming
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 March 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01340-6Author Correction: Enhanced risk of concurrent regional droughts with increased ENSO variability and warming
Publisher Correction: Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 March 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01341-5Publisher Correction: Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard
Permafrost peat carbon approaching a climatic tipping point
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 March 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01298-5Vast areas of carbon-dense, permafrost peatlands are known to be at risk from warming climates, but...
Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 March 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01309-5Co-occurring hot and dry extremes are predicted to increase with global warming. Changes in precipitation will...
Imminent loss of climate space for permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 March 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01296-7Permafrost peatlands are thawing, yet the timing and spatial dynamics of thaw are not well constrained....
How to clean solar panels without water
Dust that accumulates on solar panels is a major problem, but washing the panels uses huge amounts of water. Engineers have now developed a...
Mirror image biomolecule helps marine sea squirts lose their tails
Researchers have found that D-serine, the structural mirror image of L-serine, regulates tissue migration in the marine organism Ciona during its juvenile-to-adult transformation. D-serine...
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