Evacuations, prayers, and in some cases, simple garden hoses, are the only defenses many people in southern California have as wildfires continue to rage out of control all the way to the Mexican border. Hundreds of homes and businesses have gone up in flames in the last two days as the fires swallow everything in [...]
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Antarctic Ice Loss Accelerates, Nearly As Much As Greenland Loss
Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new, comprehensive study by UC Irvine and NASA scientists.
In a first-of-its-kind study, an international team led by Eric [...]
Scientists Use GPS to Map Valleys of Earth Largest Salt Flat in Bolivia
Scientists use innovative technology to map Bolivia's salar de...
Scientists Forecast Spike In US Greenhouse Emissions Over 50 Years
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly...
Scientists Suggest Building 100 Water Treatment Plants to Fight Global Warming
Researchers in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are proposing a new...
Millions of Trees Damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Forest Experts Find
As families in three states continue to rebuild their...
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Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots. Then the plants break certain kinds of pollutants into harmless byproducts that the plants either incorporate into their roots, stems and leaves or release into the air.
The problem [...]
The world’s oceans are becoming more acid, with potentially devastating consequences for corals and the marine organisms that build reefs and provide much of the Earth’s breathable oxygen.
The acidity is caused by the gradual buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, dissolving into the oceans. Scientists fear it could be lethal for animals with [...]
Forests in the nation’s Upper Midwest have changed greatly since the time of the early settlers. And more changes may be coming.
That’s according to research done by Lisa A. Schulte, assistant professor in Iowa State University’s department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management and her team of researchers.
“There’s been a shift in the entire ecosystem,” [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must take a more aggressive leadership role in implementing the Clean Water Act if water quality in the Mississippi River and the northern Gulf of Mexico is to improve, says a new report from the National Research Council.
EPA has failed to use its authority under the act to adequately coordinate [...]
A Northumbria University lecturer is one of a team of scientists on a mission to explore one of the last unchartered corners of the Earth – a subglacial lake in Antarctica.
Glaciologist Dr John Woodward, together with experts from the British Antarctic Survey and Edinburgh University, will spend five months working in sub zero conditions above [...]
The central part of the Andes situated between southern Peru and Chile bears 50 active or potentially volcanoes, spread along a 1500 km-long arc. These volcanic structures mostly rise to between 4000 and 7000 m, are very remote with abrupt slopes and are often cloaked in snow. Few studies have been made on them as [...]
A lot of activity in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic is keeping weather watchers busy. Hurricane forecasters are keeping their closest an eye on a non-tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico and are advising coastal residents in Texas and Louisiana to also be watchful.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida [...]