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Complex impact of large wildfires on ozone layer dynamics
Complex impact of large wildfires on ozone layer dynamicsScience

Complex impact of large wildfires on ozone layer dynamics

Huge smoke-charged vortex doubles aerosol burden in the middle stratosphere and buffers ozone depletion. By Max Planck Institute for Chemistry In a revelation highlighting the…
SourceSourceJuly 13, 2024 Full article
Study examines urban forests across the United States
Study examines urban forests across the United StatesScience

Study examines urban forests across the United States

Researchers find trees in parks are more drought-tolerant than species near homes. By Dartmouth College In recent years, tree-planting campaigns have been underway in the…
SourceSourceJuly 13, 2024 Full article
Encouraging cycling could involve ditching helmets
Encouraging cycling could involve ditching helmetsClimate

Encouraging cycling could involve ditching helmets

By Dorina Pojani, University of Queensland | 360info™ With proper planning, laws and initiatives, urban commuters can be persuaded to switch from four wheels to two. If…
SourceSourceJuly 12, 2024 Full article
High and low tide cause low and high methane fluxes
High and low tide cause low and high methane fluxesClimate

High and low tide cause low and high methane fluxes

By Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Methane, a strong greenhouse gas that naturally escapes from the bottom of the North Sea, is affected by…
SourceSourceJuly 12, 2024 Full article
Unprecedented warming threatens earth’s lakes and their ecosystems
Unprecedented warming threatens earth’s lakes and their ecosystemsClimateScience

Unprecedented warming threatens earth’s lakes and their ecosystems

By Institute for Basic Science Lakes, with their rich biodiversity and important ecological services, face a concerning trend: rapidly increasing temperatures. A recent study published…
SourceSourceJuly 12, 2024 Full article
Canada designates largest marine protected zone
Canada designates largest marine protected zoneNews

Canada designates largest marine protected zone

Montreal, Canada (AFP) - Canada said Thursday it had designated the country's largest marine protected zone off the coast of Vancouver, as it moves to…
SourceSourceJuly 12, 2024 Full article
Targeted Home Systems to Remove PFAS More Cost-Effective Than System-Wide Solutions
Targeted Home Systems to Remove PFAS More Cost-Effective Than System-Wide SolutionsScience

Targeted Home Systems to Remove PFAS More Cost-Effective Than System-Wide Solutions

By University of New Hampshire PFAS, the potentially cancer-causing chemicals known as ‘forever chemicals’, have become an increasing concern in home drinking water. Solutions to…
SourceSourceJuly 12, 2024 Full article
Scientists release new research on planted mangroves’ ability to store carbon
Scientists release new research on planted mangroves’ ability to store carbonScience

Scientists release new research on planted mangroves’ ability to store carbon

By USDA Forest Service - Pacific Southwest Research Station Mangrove nurseries in Maputo, Mozambique, managed by the local community with technical support from the U.S. Forest…
SourceSourceJuly 11, 2024 Full article
Fires and climate are changing. Science needs to change too.
Fires and climate are changing. Science needs to change too.ClimateScience

Fires and climate are changing. Science needs to change too.

By North Carolina State University A new white paper on the many ways wildfires affect people and the planet makes clear that as fires become…
SourceSourceJuly 11, 2024 Full article
Bangladesh charges 26 for destruction of vast mangrove forest
Bangladesh charges 26 for destruction of vast mangrove forestNews

Bangladesh charges 26 for destruction of vast mangrove forest

Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP) - Bangladeshi police have charged 26 people for destroying a swath of mangrove forest that protects the low-lying nation from storm surge…
SourceSourceJuly 11, 2024 Full article
Mozambican Woodlands could store more than double the carbon previously estimated
Mozambican Woodlands could store more than double the carbon previously estimatedClimate

Mozambican Woodlands could store more than double the carbon previously estimated

By University College London The capacity of Mozambican woodlands to capture and store carbon is underestimated and potentially undervalued for their protection and restoration, finds…
SourceSourceJuly 10, 2024 Full article
Does air pollution affect lupus risk?
Does air pollution affect lupus risk?Science

Does air pollution affect lupus risk?

By Wiley New research published in Arthritis & Rheumatology indicates that chronic exposure to air pollutants may increase the risk of developing lupus, an autoimmune…
SourceSourceJuly 10, 2024 Full article
Cutting farm nitrous oxide emissions helps climate and ozone layer
Cutting farm nitrous oxide emissions helps climate and ozone layerScience

Cutting farm nitrous oxide emissions helps climate and ozone layer

Farming methods can reduce nitrous oxide emissions without slowing down the overall recovery of the ozone layer, results from new research have shown. By University…
SourceSourceJuly 10, 2024 Full article
Denmark to introduce world’s first livestock carbon tax
Denmark to introduce world’s first livestock carbon taxNews

Denmark to introduce world’s first livestock carbon tax

By Paul CASSEDANNE | AFP Copenhagen, Denmark - Denmark will introduce the world's first carbon tax on livestock, a unique measure designed to bring the…
SourceSourceJuly 10, 2024 Full article
Canada’s government links June heat wave to climate change
Canada’s government links June heat wave to climate changeClimateNews

Canada’s government links June heat wave to climate change

Montreal, Canada (AFP) - Canada's environment ministry said Tuesday that climate change made a recent east coast heat wave two to 10 times more likely,…
SourceSourceJuly 10, 2024 Full article
UCF Biologist Continues Unraveling Mystery of Magnetic Bacteria
UCF Biologist Continues Unraveling Mystery of Magnetic BacteriaScience

UCF Biologist Continues Unraveling Mystery of Magnetic Bacteria

UCF Biologist Robert Fitak recently created a refined database of magnetic bacteria and the animals they may reside in to further study how these bacteria…
SourceSourceJuly 10, 2024 Full article
First local extinction in the US due to sea level rise
First local extinction in the US due to sea level riseClimate

First local extinction in the US due to sea level rise

By Jerald Pinson | Florida Museum of Natural History The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in…
SourceSourceJuly 9, 2024 Full article
Covering Climate Now Announces Winners of the 2024 CCNow Journalism Awards
Covering Climate Now Announces Winners of the 2024 CCNow Journalism AwardsClimateNews

Covering Climate Now Announces Winners of the 2024 CCNow Journalism Awards

By CCNOW Today, the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now announced 51 winners of the 2024 CCNow Journalism Awards. Now in its fourth year, the…
SourceSourceJuly 9, 2024 Full article
New Microbe-central Model Predicts Global Grassland Soil pH Under Climate Change
New Microbe-central Model Predicts Global Grassland Soil pH Under Climate ChangeScience

New Microbe-central Model Predicts Global Grassland Soil pH Under Climate Change

By Zhang Nannan | Chinese Academy of Sciences In a study published in One Earth, a research team led by Prof. Deng Ye from Research…
SourceSourceJuly 9, 2024 Full article
Water stored under artificial turf could make cities cooler and safer to play in
Water stored under artificial turf could make cities cooler and safer to play inScience

Water stored under artificial turf could make cities cooler and safer to play in

Artificial turf with an integrated subsurface water storage and irrigation system could make sports courts safer and cooler while helping cities with water and flood…
SourceSourceJuly 9, 2024 Full article
New carbon storage technology is fastest of its kind
New carbon storage technology is fastest of its kindScience

New carbon storage technology is fastest of its kind

By The University of Texas at Austin | The Cockrell School of Engineering A new way to store carbon captured from the atmosphere developed by…
SourceSourceJuly 9, 2024 Full article
Six dead in Tokyo as Japan swelters in heatwave
Six dead in Tokyo as Japan swelters in heatwaveNews

Six dead in Tokyo as Japan swelters in heatwave

By Tomohiro OSAKI | AFP Tokyo, Japan - Six people have died of heatstroke in Tokyo as Japan swelters under a rare rainy season heatwave,…
SourceSourceJuly 9, 2024 Full article