Oct. 16, 2020 — Sea floor sediments of the Arctic Ocean can reveal how permafrost responds to climate warming. Researchers have found evidence of past permafrost thawing during climate warming events at the end of ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — A pioneering technique which captures precisely how mountains bend to the will of raindrops has helped solve a long-standing scientific ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — A new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests helped scientists discover billions of trees in arid and semi-arid regions and lays the groundwork for more accurate ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — Climate science has focused on avoiding false alarms when linking extreme events to climate change. But it could learn from how weather forecasters warn the public of hazardous events to include a ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — New research uses data from two sustained open-ocean hydrographic stations in the North Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda to demonstrate recent changes in ocean physics and chemistry since the 1980s. The ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — Mammals and birds today are warm-blooded, and this is often taken as the reason for their great ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — To contribute to global climate protection, Germany has to rapidly and comprehensively minimize the use of fossil energy sources and to transform the energy system ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — A new study makes clear the extraordinary speed and scale of increases in energy use, economic productivity and global population that have pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, known as ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — Global stimulus plans for economic recovery after the pandemic could easily cover climate-friendly policies, suggests a new ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — A research team found that cyanobacterial mats threatening the health of coral reefs are more diverse and complex than scientists previously ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — In a changing climate, understanding how organisms respond to stress conditions is increasingly important. New work could enable scientists to engineer the metabolism of organisms to be more ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to survive. Now, a study combining climate modeling and the fossil record in ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — Ethylene is one of the most important and widely used organic chemicals. A research group has designed a thin-layer artificial biofilm with embedded cyanobacterial cell factories which were ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — Laser technology has been used to measure the volume and biomass of giant Californian redwood trees for the first time, records a new ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — A team has found that the amount of carbon that burns in wildfires in western boreal forests depends more on available fuels than on fire weather such as drought conditions, temperature, or ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — When permafrost thaws due to global warming, not only the greenhouse gases known to all, but also organic compounds are released from the soil. They may have a significant impact on climate ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — A new study suggests that engaging, high-quality media programming could help Democrats and Republicans see eye to eye when it comes to climate ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — Sediments from a lake in the Canadian High Arctic allow climate scientists to extend the record of Atlantic sea-surface temperature from about 100 to 2,900 years. It shows that the warmest interval ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — Scientists have modeled the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of using different types of shopping bags and report that in cities like Singapore, single-use plastic bags (made from high-density ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — Favourable climatic conditions influenced the sequence of settlement movements of Homo sapiens in the Levant on their way from Africa to Europe. In a first step, modern humans settled along the coast ...
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