Sediment cores from ocean floor could contain 23-million-year-old climate change clues
Sediment cores taken from the Southern Ocean dating back 23 million years are providing insight into how ancient methane escaping from the seafloor could...
Antibiotic used on food crops affects bumblebee behavior, lab study finds
An antibiotic sprayed on orchard crops to combat bacterial diseases slows the cognition of bumblebees and reduces their foraging efficiency, a laboratory study finds....
The surprising structural reason your kitchen sponge is disgusting
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New DNA computer assesses water quality
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Explosive fossil fruit found buried beneath ancient Indian lava flows
Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses...
Chemists discover a range of environmental contaminants in fracking wastewater
New research provides critical information that can help regulatory agencies fine-tune proposed guidelines related to the safe treatment and disposal of fracking wastewater to...
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 February 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01289-6Tropical forest restoration has the potential to remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere, but...
City trees and soil are sucking more carbon out of the atmosphere than previously...
Research uncovers new information about the role that forest edges play in buffering global impacts of climate change and urbanization.
Can a planet have a mind of its own? Thought experiment
Astrophysicists combine current scientific understanding about the Earth with broader questions about how life alters a planet to ask: if a planet with life...
Dissolving oil in a sunlit sea
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in United States history. The disaster was caused by an explosion on...
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