Gro?nland.
Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Coen Hofstede
During the last glacial period, within only a few decades the influence of atmospheric CO2 on the North Atlantic circulation resulted in temperature increases of up to 10 degrees Celsius in Greenland -- as indicated...
Genes, Environment, and the Risk for Autism: Environment factors (ozone) can interact with genetic factors (copy number variation) to produce an even higher risk for autism than expected by adding the two risk factors, one that might not be...
Brookhaven Lab chemists Ping Liu and José Rodriguez helped to characterize structural and mechanistic details of a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen gas from water and carbon monoxide.
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Scientists have developed a new low-temperature catalyst...
This image shows a dated quarter section of the White Moon Cave stalagmite that spans the period of the Holocene anomaly.
Credit: Jessica Oster, Vanderbilt University
The weather report for California 8,200 years ago was exceptionally wet and stormy.
That is...
In a new study, Professor Kumar and graduate student Meredith Richardson find that using corn for biofuel comes with greater environmental costs and fewer benefits than using corn for food.
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer
Corn is grown not only for food,...
Nitrogen oxide is toxic in higher concentrations and classified as hazardous air pollutant. In addition, it contributes to the development of ground-level ozone.
Credit: © Brian Jackson / Fotolia
In metropolitan areas throughout Europe maximum permissible values of nitrogen oxide are...
Thousands of homes were devastated by flooding in inland communities in Louisiana in August 2016.
Credit: Nina Lam, LSU
Floods are the natural disaster that kill the most people. They are also the most common natural disaster. As the threat of...
By exposing a magnetically responsive droplet (purple) to a magnetic field, the scientists are able to exert pressure on the surrounding embryonic cells in order to study their response to mechanical forces
Credit: Image courtesy of University of California -...
Map depicting the Amazon's 19 sub-basins and the existing or under construction (green) and planned (yellow) hydroelectric dams.
Credit: Illustration by Edgardo Latrubesse
Hundreds of built and proposed hydroelectric dams may significantly harm life in and around the Amazon by trapping...
Shells from muddy sediment collected on the western Palos Verdes shelf off the coast of southern California. The shells are from the scallop Chlamys hastata.
Credit: Courtesy of Prof. Susan Kidwell
Paleontologists investigating the sea bed off the coast of southern...
Bombus balteatus queen collecting nectar from the alpine clover, Trifolium parryi. The buzzes of bees flying from flower to flower tell scientists how much pollination the clover population is getting over time and predict seed production in these alpine...
