Affordable water in the US: A burgeoning crisis
Jan 12, 2017, 9:13 am By ENN
If water rates continue rising at projected amounts, the number of U.S. households unable to afford…Scientists identify protein central to immune response against tuberculosis bacteria
Jan 12, 2017, 9:08 am By ENN
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a protein that is central to the immune…PRESSURE FROM GRAZERS HASTENS ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE FROM DROUGHT
Jan 11, 2017, 4:39 pm By ENN
Extreme droughts, intensified by a warming climate, are increasingly causing ecosystem collapse in…CWRU researchers directly measure how perovskite solar films efficiently convert light to power
Jan 11, 2017, 2:43 pm By ENN
Measurement shows potential for building better solar cells by imaging fundamental properties of the…Campus greenhouse gas emissions down 7 percent since 2014
Jan 11, 2017, 2:15 pm By ENN
MIT’s total campus emissions have dropped by 7 percent since 2014, according to MIT’s second…Farthest Stars in Milky Way Might Be Ripped from Another Galaxy
Jan 11, 2017, 12:14 pm By ENN
The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well…Researchers find a potential target for anti-Alzheimer treatments
Jan 11, 2017, 9:07 am By ENN
Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg…Warmer West Coast ocean conditions linked to increased risk of toxic shellfish
Jan 10, 2017, 2:26 pm By ENN
Hazardous levels of domoic acid, a natural toxin that accumulates in shellfish, have been linked to…In a first, Bumble Bee is listed as endangered in continental U.S.
Jan 10, 2017, 11:59 am By ENN
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has placed the rusty patched bumble bee, once common in 28 states…Rapid Arctic warming has in the past shifted Southern Ocean winds
Jan 10, 2017, 11:28 am By ENN
The global climate is a complex machine in which some pieces are separate yet others are connected.…NASA Study Finds a Connection Between Wildfires and Drought
Jan 10, 2017, 11:03 am By ENN
For centuries drought has come and gone across northern sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, water…Retroviruses 'almost half a billion years old'
Jan 10, 2017, 8:55 am By ENN
Retroviruses – the family of viruses that includes HIV – are almost half a billion years old,…Louisiana Faces Faster Levels of Sea-Level Rise Than Any Other Land on Earth
Jan 10, 2017, 8:49 am By ENN
Louisiana—which faces faster levels of sea-level rise than any other land on Earth—could lose…NASA Sees Storms Affecting the Western U.S.
Jan 9, 2017, 6:10 pm By ENN
Extreme rain events have been affecting California and snow has blanketed the Pacific Northwest.…Climate change and farming: let's be part of the solution!
Jan 9, 2017, 11:23 am By ENN
What with rising rainfall in the west, and hotter, drier summers in the east, British farmers place…Rocky mountain haze
Jan 6, 2017, 10:53 am By ENN
Many people head to the mountains in the summer to get above the haze of the cities and valleys. A…Great Barrier Reef almost drowned
Jan 6, 2017, 10:38 am By ENN
A unique analysis of the famous reef during rapid sea-level rise at the beginning of the Last…Climate change could trigger strong sea level rise
Jan 5, 2017, 4:08 pm By ENN
About 15,000 years ago, the ocean around Antarctica has seen an abrupt sea level rise of several…China Announces End to Ivory Trade in 2017
Jan 4, 2017, 6:18 pm By ENN
In an announcement that could prove to be extremely good news for elephants in the wild, the Chinese…Traffic noise reduces birds' response to alarm calls
Dec 28, 2016, 10:04 am By ENN
Pollution can take many forms--including noise. Excess noise in the environment from sources such as…
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