The oceans help to limit global warming by soaking up carbon dioxide emissions. But scientists have discovered that intense warming in the future could lessen that ability, leading to even more severe warming.
Earth Sciences
Mar 2, 2023
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One of the biggest potential single sources of carbon emissions from wooded parts of Norway has four legs, weighs as much as 400-550 kg and has antlers.
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2023
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Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often source their nutrients—the shii tree, a Japanese relative of the oak. These fungi are part of the genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2023
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Submerged macrophytes grow underwater and represent a group of higher plants adapted to the aquatic environments. As they grow in water, the uptake of inorganic carbon is very different from that of terrestrial plants. However, ...
Environment
Feb 23, 2023
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Scientists continue to refine techniques for understanding present-day changes in Earth's environmental systems, but the planet's distant past also offers crucial information to deepen that understanding. A geological study ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2023
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The world's forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon due to increasingly 'unstable' conditions caused by humans, a landmark study has found.
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2023
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Reliable carbonate carbon isotopes (δ13Ccarb) can reflect variations in global carbon cycling, and thus the paleoclimate and paleoceanographic conditions. However, significant depositional hiatus in low-latitude areas occurred ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2023
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Communities of microbes that work together release more carbon dioxide than competitive communities, contributing more to climate change.
Ecology
Feb 13, 2023
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Warming temperatures unleash termites in more areas of the world, and more termites may actually accelerate warming temperatures. Scientists say it's time for climate prediction models to take note.
Ecology
Feb 9, 2023
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Alley cropping is the agricultural practice of planting rows, or alleys, of trees in fields of crops. According to a new study by an international, multidisciplinary research team led by the University of Göttingen, this ...
Ecology
Feb 7, 2023
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