Battery parts can be recycled without crushing or melting
Researchers have now discovered that electrodes in lithium batteries containing cobalt can be reused as is after being newly saturated with lithium. In comparison...
Mammals evolved big brains after big disasters
A large study reveals the way relative brain size of mammals changed over the last 150 million years.
Social media and science show how ship’s plastic cargo dispersed from Florida to Norway
Researchers combined sightings data reported by members of the public and oceanographic modelling tools to show how lost ink cartridges reached their resting place.
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 April 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01026-5Carbon loss from forests occurs through deforestation or the degradation of existing forest. The loss of...
Disturbance suppresses the aboveground carbon sink in North American boreal forests
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 April 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01027-4Disturbance regimes from fire, drought, harvest and insects will probably intensify in the future and under...
Normative approach to risk management for insurers
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 April 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01031-8Private insurance is a key component of strategies to manage physical climate change impacts, but existing...
Tool to track marine litter polluting the ocean
In an effort to fight the millions of tons of marine litter floating in the ocean, researchers have developed a new virtual tool to...
How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
Researchers have uncovered a mechanism by which dissolved salts can crystallize in a way that makes it easy to remove them from surfaces, potentially...
People of color hardest hit by air pollution from nearly all sources
Various studies show that people of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution in the United States. However, it was unclear whether this unequal...
Uncertainty of future Southern Ocean CO2 uptake cut in half
The Southern Ocean dominates the oceanic uptake of humanmade CO2. But how much carbon dioxide can it actually absorb in the future? This long-standing...
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