USGS study shows why some chemicals bio-accumulate and others don't
Apr 20, 2016, 12:19 pm By ENNResearchers have figured out what makes certain chemicals accumulate to toxic levels in aquatic food…Ocean currents push phytoplankton and pollution faster than thought
Apr 20, 2016, 7:50 am By ENNThe billions of single-celled marine organisms known as phytoplankton can drift from one region of…Is your home making you sick?
Apr 20, 2016, 7:40 am By ENNNew research in the journal Science of the Total Environment has highlighted the dangerous effects…MIT finds tectonic collisions had major impact on climatic shifts
Apr 19, 2016, 11:44 am By ENNFor hundreds of millions of years, Earth's climate has remained on a fairly even keel, with some…Which trees face death in drought?
Apr 19, 2016, 8:19 am By ENNTwo hundred-twenty-five million trees dead in the southwest in a 2002 drought. Three hundred million…Educating Consumers About Buying Sustainably
Apr 18, 2016, 8:02 am By ENNSustainability is a word tossed around much these days. But do consumers really care about buying…Microbots Could Play Key Role in Cleaning Up Our Water Systems
Apr 18, 2016, 7:56 am By ENNWhat if we could not only clean up the heavy metals in our water systems, but also recycle those…Shift in global winds caused record flooding in the Balkans
Apr 17, 2016, 8:40 am By ENNDisastrous floods in the Balkans two years ago are likely linked to the temporary slowdown of giant…Clear cutting and its influence on carbon storage
Apr 15, 2016, 8:28 pm By ENNlear-cutting loosens up carbon stored in forest soils, increasing the chances it will return to the…Study shows most US roofs can support a solar system
Apr 14, 2016, 8:40 am By ENNMost U.S. rooftops in good repair can take the weight of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. That’s…Moths in cities have learned to avoid man-made light
Apr 13, 2016, 12:35 pm By ENNThe globally increasing light pollution has negative effects on organisms and entire ecosystems. The…Fast food may expose consumers to phthalates
Apr 13, 2016, 8:16 am By ENNPeople who reported consuming more fast food in a national survey were exposed to higher levels of…The Paris climate accord looks promising
Apr 12, 2016, 9:04 pm By ENNThe climate talks that concluded last December were a great success, but it will be decades before…Better long-term outcomes for married cancer patients
Apr 11, 2016, 12:51 pm By ENNNew research has uncovered a link between being married and living longer among cancer patients,…Reducing food waste could help mitigate climate change
Apr 11, 2016, 8:33 am By ENNAbout a tenth of overall global greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculture could be traced back to…Rising oceans may pose a bigger threat than previously assumed
10:34am By ENNOf all the impacts of climate change, one stands out for its inexorable menace, writes Pete Dolack:…The North Pole had ice-free summers millions of years ago
Fri 8:22am By ENNAn international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar…Using moss as a bioindicator of air pollution
Fri 8:16am By ENNMoss growing on urban trees is a useful bio-indicator of cadmium air pollution in Portland, Oregon,…Supernova explosion impacted Earth within the last 9 million years
Apr 7, 2016, 9:47 am By ENNTwo new papers appearing in the journal Nature this week are "slam-dunk" evidence that energies…Earth's soils could play key role in locking away greenhouse gases
Apr 7, 2016, 7:51 am By ENNThe world's soils could store an extra 8 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases, helping to limit the…
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