As the UK and Europe battle deadly wildfires, what lessons can Australia offer? | Wildfires
The violent hot red flames of deadly wildfires across the UK and Europe and scenes of panicked communities…
Southeast Asian mangroves shift from historic decline to net growth
For decades, Southeast Asia was the global epicenter of mangrove deforestation, but a recent study reveals…
National Academies Report Backs Climate Change Attribution Science
The nation’s top scientific advisory body issued a report on Thursday backing a growing field of science that…
The ocean produces roughly half the oxygen released on Earth through microscopic organisms most people will never see, while rainforests consume much of the oxygen they generate themselves
The most prolific oxygen producers on Earth are not towering trees. They are drifting cells in the sunlit…
Climate change reshapes resource adequacy risks and optimal renewable energy siting in wind and solar energy systems
Davis, S. J. et al. Net-zero emissions energy systems. Science 360, eaas9793 (2018). Article Google Scholar Wang, Y.…
Review: Coffee Sustainability Research is Growing but Fragmented
A recent review of more than two decades of coffee sustainability research found that while the field has…
What does an air purifier do and can it help with wildfire smoke? | Well actually
With smoke from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota spreading across the US, more than 20 states have issued…
Explorers who lowered themselves into a Vietnamese cave found a passage so vast it holds its own jungle, its own river and its own weather, a hidden world large enough to swallow a skyscraper
In the early 1990s, Hồ Khanh found a dark opening while moving through the forest of central Vietnam.…
Scientists Just Discovered A New Monkey Species. Here’s What Makes It So Special
Scientists have found a brand new species of monkey living deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic…
Scientists tracked more than 6,000 penguin dives beneath Antarctic sea ice and found that prey may become harder to reach, even when it has not disappeared
Prey accessibility, not abundance, may shape predator behavior in penguins For nesting penguins in Antarctica, finding food is…
Wind turbines were blamed for wrecking the health of 120,000 American households, and a decade of data later, the infrasound they feared left no mark, the low pulse elephants and whales live by
Stand close enough to a spinning wind turbine and you feel it before you hear it. A low,…
Plastic waste turned into 90% pure hydrogen in single-reactor process
A process called Alkaline Thermal Treatment (ATT) has been tested to turn mixed plastic waste into high-purity hydrogen…