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Researchers Aim to Gain Cleaner Fuel from CO2

A recent research project from the University of Surrey aims to use the planet’s air to manufacture new chemicals for fuel and other important chemical goods.

4 Apr 2022

Tropical Trees' Trunk Growth is Reduced During Drier and Warmer Seasons

For a long time, ecologists assumed tree rings to be absent in tropical trees because of a lack of temperature and rain fluctuations in the trees' environment.

4 Apr 2022

Mammoth Mountain’s CO2 Emissions Strongly Linked to Weight of Snow and Ice Atop the Sierra Nevada

Thirty years ago, on the flanks of a volcano in California's Sierra Nevada range, trees began to die en masse, suffocated at their roots by carbon dioxide seeping up from the mountain's depths after a swarm of small earthquakes.

30 Mar 2022

Climate Change is the Culprit Behind Birds' Early Nesting and Egg-Laying Behavior

Spring is in the air. Birds are singing and beginning to build their nests. It happens every year, like clockwork. But a new study in the Journal of Animal Ecology shows that many species of birds are nesting and laying eggs nearly a month earlier than they did a hundred years ago.

28 Mar 2022

Reconstruction of Rapid Glacial Movement in Greenland During Norse Inhabitation

The world’s second largest ice body is the Greenland Ice Sheet. It has the possibility of adding considerably to the rise in global sea level in a global warming climate.

28 Mar 2022

New Images, Footage Reveal Severe Coral Bleaching on Great Barrier Reef as UNESCO/IUCN Considers Whether to Recommend "in danger" Listing

A widespread and variable coral bleaching event driven by a marine heatwave is underway on the Great Barrier Reef as a UNESCO/IUCN monitoring mission to consider whether to recommend ‘In Danger’ listing for the Reef is in Queensland.

25 Mar 2022