Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a swirling mass of cold air high ...
Earth Sciences
4 hours ago
0
0
Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from aerospace and defense to computing. While its global distribution is uneven, most tungsten deposits ...
Earth Sciences
9 hours ago
0
0
As Great Salt Lake's levels continue to sag, yet another strange phenomenon has surfaced, offering Utah scientists more opportunities to plumb the vast saline lake's secrets.
Earth Sciences
12 hours ago
0
0
Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while others divide into multiple ...
Earth Sciences
13 hours ago
0
37
A new Europe-focused study reveals that polyethylene (PE), the most widely used packaging material in Europe, has lower life cycle global warming potential (GWP)—often used to assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—than ...
Environment
7 hours ago
0
0
The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and could help predictions of future loss from the ice sheet.
Earth Sciences
13 hours ago
1
0
Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, depleted crops, and destroyed buildings are the hallmark of wildfire devastation. Another is the effect ...
Environment
7 hours ago
0
0
New research has found increasing levels of artificial sweeteners in wastewater treatment plants, with downstream impacts on the environment.
Environment
8 hours ago
0
0
Spreading wildfires forced the evacuation on Friday of part of the famed Grand Canyon, with the US National Park Service appealing for visitors to stay calm.
Environment
5 hours ago
0
0
For nearly a month, hundreds of thousands of Iowans have not been allowed to water their lawns—even though there's no drought.
Environment
11 hours ago
0
0
