The future of the world's coral reefs is uncertain, as the impact of global heating continues to escalate. However, according to a study published today in Nature Climate Change, the response of the Great Barrier Reef to extreme temperatures...
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were part of an international team that for the first time used hydroacoustics as a method for comparing the abundance of fishes within and outside marine...
As iron is deposited from air pollution off the coast of East Asia, ocean currents carry the nutrient far and wide.
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology
As climatologists closely monitor the impact of human activity on the world's oceans, researchers at...
Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have recently found higher amounts of microplastic in Arctic sea ice than ever before. However, the majority of particles were microscopically small. Ice samples from...
Research has found that in some cases, the type of algae control done by parrot fish and other species can pose a danger to unhealthy corals, instead of the benefit it usually offers. Credit: Photo by Cory Fuchs, courtesy...
Weather extremes caused by climate change could raise the risk of food shortages in many countries, new research suggests.
The study, led by the University of Exeter, examined how climate change could affect the vulnerability of different countries to food...
Human beings take up a lot of real estate -- around 50-70 percent of the Earth's land surface. And our increasing footprint affects how mammals of all sizes, from all over the planet, move.
A study recently published by Science found that,...
In a study spanning two decades, a team of researchers led by Colorado State University found declining numbers of soil fauna, nematodes and other animal species in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the world's driest and coldest deserts....
Nitrogen oxide is toxic in higher concentrations and classified as hazardous air pollutant. In addition, it contributes to the development of ground-level ozone.
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In metropolitan areas throughout Europe maximum permissible values of nitrogen oxide are...
An international team of drought scientists reports that many dams and reservoirs can paradoxically worsen water shortages they're intended to alleviate. The study is published in Nature Sustainability.
Building dams and reservoirs is one of the most common approaches to...
Photo captures one of the California landslide sites studied by the UO's Georgie Bennett and Joshua Roering. The research team they led found that California's unprecedented drought is reflected in the drying of landslide formations and dramatic reductions in...
