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Foundations of daily life, including farms, reservoirs and aquifers that feed and sustain millions, are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming. By Bob Berwyn As global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian…
A volcanic eruption may have set off a chain reaction that led to Europe’s deadliest pandemic.
Mangroves in the Philippine city of Tacloban, the area hit hardest by one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, have recovered and even expanded beyond their pre-disaster extent, thanks largely to community-led reforestation. But scientists caution that ongoing coastal…
Efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change have focused largely on the protection of tropical forests like the Amazon Rainforest, important carbon sinks that can store between 60 and 230 metric tons of carbon per hectare. But elsewhere in…
There is a certain delay in nature — so says a metaphor that refers to the natural time of environments in responding to human actions. It attempts to explain that often, positive or negative environmental impacts are not necessarily immediately…
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with…
4 min read NASA-JAXA XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging…
At 88, the Canadian reflects on a golden era of underwater discovery and how shipwrecks and the cruel sea are the ‘greatest of all teachers’ Joe MacInnis admits there are simply too many places to begin telling the story of…
The sudden removal of federal tax credits led to a cratering of U.S. electric vehicle sales. But the future is brighter than you may expect. By Dan Gearino Sales of new electric vehicles have plunged since federal tax credits ended…