Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide
AbstractIncreasing the number of environmental stressors could decrease ecosystem functioning in soils. Yet this relationship has not been globally assessed outside laboratory experiments. Here,...
East Coast, US, landslide impacts from Puerto Rico to Vermont and in between
In the U.S., we may often think of landslides as primarily a West Coast problem, mostly plaguing the mountainous terrain of California, Oregon, and...
Review of world water resources
A recent review study provides an overview of the planet's freshwater supplies and strategies for sustainably managing them.
Could AI-powered object recognition technology help solve wheat disease?
A new project is using advanced object recognition technology to keep toxin-contaminated wheat kernels out of the food supply and to help researchers make...
Minimizing electric vehicles’ impact on the grid
Some projections show that widespread adoption of electric vehicles might require costly new power plants to meet peak loads in the evening. A new...
Where did Earth’s water come from? Not melted meteorites, according to scientists
A new study brings scientists one step closer to answering the question of where Earth's water came from.
Recovering tropical forests offset just one quarter of carbon emissions from new tropical deforestation...
A pioneering global study has found deforestation and forests lost or damaged due to human and environmental change, such as fire and logging, are...
Bird flu associated with hundreds of seal deaths in New England in 2022
Researchers have found that an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was associated with the deaths of more than 330 New England harbor...
Designing more useful bacteria
In a step forward for genetic engineering and synthetic biology, researchers have modified a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria to be immune to natural...
Propeller advance paves way for quiet, efficient electric aviation
Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is battling a trade-off dilemma:...
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