Researchers study penguin poop’s impact on climate
Highly sensitive, online observations of gaseous ammonia from a coastal site in Antarctica.
Storms below hurricane strength significantly increase infant mortality in poorer countries
The risk of death was highest during the first year of life after a damaging tropical cyclone.
Biodiversity enhances ecosystem stability and helps safeguard natural communities
Diverse natural communities are more stable over time.
Study challenges assumptions about climate-friendly farming and crop yields
Cover crops may not be solution for both crop yield, carbon sequestration.
A scalable method to produce porous graphene membranes for separating CO2
The breakthrough could significantly reduce the cost and footprint of carbon capture technology.
Non-toxic water-repellent breakthrough to replace synthetic chemicals
The unique ‘bulky’ attribute of fluorine can actually be replicated in a different, non-toxic form.
Air pollution and extreme heat substantially raise the risk of death in India
These results highlight a concerning synergy between heat and air pollution.
Urban heat islands are a poor proxy for global warming
Urban trees mislead climate models: why genetics matter more than temperature
A simple method to break down plastic using air moisture
Plastic recycling gets a breath of fresh air.
Global sea level rise accelerates in 2024
Last year’s increase was due to an unusual amount of ocean warming
Climate change threatens rare Whitefin Swellshark with habitat loss
Critical action is needed to save endangered shark habitats
World’s critical food crops in danger due to rising temperatures
A more precise picture of exactly where and how warming will affect our ability to grow food.
The next ice age might start in about 10,000 years
Scientists match Earth’s ice age cycles with orbital shifts.
Eavesdropping on whale songs reveals ecosystem changes
Variation in detected whale songs is linked with shifting food sources.
A Breathless future: Supercomputer predicts when Earth will lose oxygen
Extreme heat likely to wipe out humans and mammals in the distant future.
Tiny ice quakes take place in one of Greenland’s mightiest ice streams
Ice streams move due to tiny ice quakes.
Animal poop helps ecosystems adapt to climate change, study
The activity of this animal could accelerate the time plants.
The world’s living collections have collectively reached peak capacity
Safeguarding the world’s most threatened plants from extinction.
Understanding the anti-climate movement: A new study
Counter-climate groups form in response to stricter environmental policies and institutions.
Cleaning contaminated soil using proteins
In 2020, Lausanne's soil was contaminated with dioxins from manufacturing processes. Cleaning is expensive and time-consuming, leaving officials unsure whether to proceed. EPFL scientists are...
Meltwater remained visible atop Antarctica’s Amery ice shelf
Spanning from the Antarctic Peninsula in the west to the Amery Ice Shelf in the east.
Living organisms influence the distribution of Arsenic than previously thought
Interpreting traces of arsenic in rain.
Some bacteria evolve like clockwork with the seasons
The longest natural metagenome time series ever collected, with microbes, reveals a startling evolutionary pattern on repeat.
International agricultural trade has caused 90 percent biodiversity loss
Biodiversity loss due to agricultural trade three times higher than previously thought.
Air pollution from AI costs $20 billion and 1,300 deaths a year
UC Riverside and Caltech study reveals AI’s toxic air pollution footprint and toll on people’s health.
Cleaner water may pose risk to some Lake Erie fish species
Unforeseen water quality–fisheries tradeoffs are reduced to improve water quality.
Scientists urge to resist reliance on “bathtub modeling” of flood risk
Researchers recommend analysis of complex factors.