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Individuals vary in how air pollution impacts their mood
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Individuals vary in how air pollution impacts their moodNewsScience

Individuals vary in how air pollution impacts their mood

Statistical models show how daily air pollution is linked to a personโ€™s affective states. By PLOS ONE Affective sensitivity to air pollution (ASAP) describes the…
SourceSourceAugust 7, 2024 Full article
Warming has more impact than cooling on Greenland’s “firn”
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Warming has more impact than cooling on Greenland’s “firn”ClimateScience

Warming has more impact than cooling on Greenland’s “firn”

By University of Colorado at Boulder Scientists have known from ice core research that it's easier to melt an ice sheet than to freeze it…
SourceSourceJuly 25, 2024 Full article
Microbes found to destroy certain โ€˜forever chemicalsโ€™
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Microbes found to destroy certain โ€˜forever chemicalsโ€™Science

Microbes found to destroy certain โ€˜forever chemicalsโ€™

By David Danelski | University of California - Riverside A UC Riverside environmental engineering team has discovered specific bacterial species that can destroy certain kinds…
SourceSourceJuly 17, 2024 Full article
UC Irvine Earth system scientists discover missing piece in climate models
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UC Irvine Earth system scientists discover missing piece in climate modelsClimateScience

UC Irvine Earth system scientists discover missing piece in climate models

By University of California - Irvine As the planet continues to warm due to human-driven climate change, accurate computer climate models will be key in…
SourceSourceJuly 16, 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 โ€˜forever chemicalsโ€™, have become an increasing concern in home drinking water. Solutions to…
SourceSourceJuly 12, 2024 Full article
Half of worldโ€™s lakes are less resilient to disturbance than they used to be
Half of worldโ€™s lakes are less resilient to disturbance than they used to beScience

Half of worldโ€™s lakes are less resilient to disturbance than they used to be

By American Geophysical Union Nearly half of the worldโ€™s large lakes have lost resilience, or the ability to bounce back after an abrupt disturbance, in…
SourceSourceJune 26, 2024 Full article
New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheetClimateScience

New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

By British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Warm water that seeps underneath can melt ice in way not yet included in models. A new and worrying way…
SourceSourceJune 25, 2024 Full article
Ultrafine particles from planes put 52 million Europeans at risk of serious health conditions
Ultrafine particles from planes put 52 million Europeans at risk of serious health conditionsClimate

Ultrafine particles from planes put 52 million Europeans at risk of serious health conditions

Byย Transport & Environmentย (T&E) A new study by green group Transport & Environment (T&E) suggests that thousands of cases of high blood pressure, diabetes and dementia…
SourceSourceJune 25, 2024 Full article
Climate change accelerates emergence of insects
Climate change accelerates emergence of insectsClimateScience

Climate change accelerates emergence of insects

By Jess Whitty | La Trobe University Researchers at La Trobe Universityโ€™s Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems have exposed the hidden consequences of climate change on…
SourceSourceJune 24, 2024 Full article
Up to 30 percent more time: Climate change makes it harder for women to collect water
Up to 30 percent more time: Climate change makes it harder for women to collect waterClimateScience

Up to 30 percent more time: Climate change makes it harder for women to collect water

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) - By 2050, climate change could increase the amount of time women in households without running water spend…
SourceSourceJune 22, 2024 Full article
An earthquake changed the course of the Ganges. Could it happen again?
An earthquake changed the course of the Ganges. Could it happen again?Science

An earthquake changed the course of the Ganges. Could it happen again?

By Kevin Krajick, Columbia Climate School A major earthquake 2,500 years ago caused one of the largest rivers on Earth to abruptly change course, according…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2024 Full article
Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaos
Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaosScience

Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaos

By Jules Bernstein, University of California - Riverside When it comes to the oceanโ€™s response to global warming, weโ€™re not in entirely uncharted waters. A…
SourceSourceJune 14, 2024 Full article
Keeping the lights on
Keeping the lights onScience

Keeping the lights on

By Osaka University Researchers at Osaka University study the impact of carbon impurities on the quality of gallium nitride crystals, and determine the threshold concentration…
SourceSourceJune 10, 2024 Full article
Exploring three frontiers in marine biomass and blue carbon capture
Exploring three frontiers in marine biomass and blue carbon captureScience

Exploring three frontiers in marine biomass and blue carbon capture

By Boston University A new study offers first-time insights into three emerging climate innovations to safeguard or increase the carbon naturally captured by ocean and…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2024 Full article
Global activity of seafloor biodiversity mapped for the first time
Global activity of seafloor biodiversity mapped for the first timeScience

Global activity of seafloor biodiversity mapped for the first time

By University of Southampton A team of scientists from the USA and UK has used artificial intelligence (AI) to map the activities of seafloor invertebrate…
SourceSourceMay 29, 2024 Full article
From wild to domesticated: Scientists reveal 100,000 years of continuous rice evolution
From wild to domesticated: Scientists reveal 100,000 years of continuous rice evolutionScience

From wild to domesticated: Scientists reveal 100,000 years of continuous rice evolution

By Zhang Nannan, Chinese Academy of Sciences According to a study published in Science on May 24, scientists have used phytolith analysis and other methods…
SourceSourceMay 27, 2024 Full article
Kenyan fishers face increased drowning risk from climate change
Kenyan fishers face increased drowning risk from climate changeClimateScience

Kenyan fishers face increased drowning risk from climate change

By Krishna Ramanujan, Cornell University Fatal drownings are a big risk for small-scale fishers on Africaโ€™s largest lake, with many of those deaths attributed to…
SourceSourceMay 27, 2024 Full article
Beach erosion will make Southern California coastal living five times more expensive by 2050
Beach erosion will make Southern California coastal living five times more expensive by 2050Climate

Beach erosion will make Southern California coastal living five times more expensive by 2050

Byย Nina Raffio | University of Southern California The regionโ€™s sandy coastlines are vanishing at an alarming rate. Itโ€™s a warning sign for coastal communities worldwide,…
SourceSourceMay 22, 2024 Full article
Global warming and plastic pollution fuel each other in vicious cycle, study finds
Global warming and plastic pollution fuel each other in vicious cycle, study findsNewsScience

Global warming and plastic pollution fuel each other in vicious cycle, study finds

In a new report published in Nature Communications, researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology shed light on the interconnectedness of global warming and plastic…
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Global warming unveils hidden diversity in soil bacteria, study finds
Global warming unveils hidden diversity in soil bacteria, study findsScience

Global warming unveils hidden diversity in soil bacteria, study finds

A new study led by researchers at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna has revealed a surprising…
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