The extent of black carbon’s impact on clouds has been the subject of debate for 30 years. A study recently published by Colorado State University atmospheric scientists aims to settle the debate and improve climate models.
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“Our research program has a bunch of different prongs to it. I would say the biggest prong is asking questions about how pollutants infiltrate the environment, especially aquatic ecosystems, and have damaging effects on the individuals who live there.”
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Livestock grazing is reducing the biodiversity of herbivores and pollinators worldwide, according to a new study led by University of Alberta researchers that examined the impact of grazing on a larger scale than ever before.
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The drought that hit central and northern Europe in summer 2018 had serious effects on crops, forests and grasslands... are showing what effects this had and what lessons can be learned.
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“We are finding that soft material flow is more of a gradual transition rather than the abrupt change the current models suggest,” said chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Simon Rogers
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Predator densities were up to five times larger at the 14 artificial reefs surveyed in the study than at the 16 nearby natural reefs that also were surveyed
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“Given that reef ecosystems are driven by photosynthesis, there should really be a greater interest in light ecology on reefs,” Hochberg said.
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“The 4.0 IBCAO map is this year’s contribution to the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030, whose objective is to map all seas and oceans in the world by 2030”, notes Martin Jakobsson
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Air conditioning and other space cooling methods account for about 10% of all electricity consumption in the U.S. Now, researchers have developed a material that cools the wearer without using any electricity.
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The report, done in collaboration with Station A — a clean-energy marketplace connecting building owners and renewable energy developers — found that just 3.5 percent of commercial buildings in the U.S. have solar panels on their roofs.
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One major route to achieving this is for countries to reach ‘net zero’ carbon emissions by 2050 – either producing no emissions or removing the same amount that they produce.
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Anthropogenic sources like agriculture, waste, and fossil fuels contributed to 60% of these emissions, while wetlands made up for the largest natural source of methane.
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The fungus Trichoderma reesei is one of the most prolific producers of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes and is widely used in the biotechnology industry.
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A new study published by researchers in Finland focuses on wind turbines in the Baltic Sea region and their impact on bats and their migration.
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