Home hardening and defensible space can halve wildfire damage, study finds
Aug 28, 2025, 4:36 pm By NULLSince January's wildfires flattened entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles, displacing 12,900…NASA scientists help a Maryland county plan to beat summer heat risks
Aug 28, 2025, 3:58 pm By NULLThousands of Americans are impacted each summer by excessive heat and humidity, some suffering from…What will happen to the legal status of 'sinking' nations when their land is gone?
Aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm By NULLSmall island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Maldives and Marshall Islands are particularly…Cigarette filters do nothing for smokers' health and just create plastic pollution; they should be banned
Aug 28, 2025, 3:20 pm By NULLCigarette filters were widely introduced in the 1950s, ostensibly to make smoking less harmful. With…Sea spray aerosol research highlights fundamental differences between shorelines and open oceans
Aug 28, 2025, 3:02 pm By NULLAbout 71% of Earth's surface is covered by the vast oceans. When winds blow over the sea surface,…Researchers develop new urban sustainability assessment method using SDGSAT-1 satellite data
Aug 28, 2025, 2:42 pm By NULLA research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences…'Same-dip double subduction' results in mountains that are shaped by faraway forces
Aug 28, 2025, 2:36 pm By NULLA team of geoscientists has identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and…High-emission scenarios show possible AMOC shutdown after 2100
Aug 28, 2025, 2:21 pm By NULLUnder high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), a key system…Tijuana River's toxic water pollutes the air: Study shows hydrogen sulfide levels exceed air quality standards
Aug 28, 2025, 2:00 pm By NULLFor decades, the Tijuana River has carried millions of gallons of untreated sewage and industrial…Cloud altitude shifts found to have minimal impact on Earth's climate sensitivity
Aug 28, 2025, 1:40 pm By NULLClouds are important for Earth's energy balance because they interact with radiation in different…New method better predicts methane emissions from boreal-Arctic wetlands
Aug 28, 2025, 12:32 pm By NULLA more thorough way to estimate how much the world's boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes contribute to…Researchers make new guide to help maintain water security in the future
Aug 28, 2025, 12:30 pm By NULLHumanity and the environment's adaptation to climate change is dependent on water, but projecting…Strong global support emerges for 30–30 biodiversity target to protect the planet
Aug 28, 2025, 12:00 pm By NULLThere is strong support for the global 30–30 target on biodiversity, which means that one-third of…The Goldilocks rule for sustainable cities: Study reveals the 'just right' population
Aug 28, 2025, 11:29 am By NULLThe long-running debate over the ideal city size has an answer, with a new study pinpointing the…See Earth's seasons in all their complexity in a new animated map
Aug 28, 2025, 11:27 am By NULLThe annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But…Chromium-6, nanosilver detected in LA fire cleanup zones
Aug 28, 2025, 11:10 am By NULLAir quality scientists have detected elevated levels of hexavalent chromium and silver in air…Trump administration presses rollback of 'Roadless Rule' on wild lands
Aug 28, 2025, 10:00 am By NULLOn August 27, the Trump administration took formal steps to rescind a decades-old rule that protects…Two-billion-year oxygen transformation on Earth unveiled
Aug 28, 2025, 9:49 am By NULLHow Earth's atmosphere transformed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich over a span of about two billion…Bacteria that 'breathe' iron minerals while detoxifying sulfide outpace chemical reactions
Aug 28, 2025, 9:28 am By NULLAn international team of scientists led by microbiologists Marc Mussmann and Alexander Loy from the…Frugal habits, not quick fixes, key to tackling global food waste, study finds
Aug 28, 2025, 8:48 am By NULLHousehold food waste, a focus of government targets, supermarket campaigns and consumer nudges, is…
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