As Brazil seeks ways to protect its crucial Amazon Forest, a new study shows that excusing private landowners from conserving their precious land has come at a steep cost to global sustainability.
Environment
Apr 13, 2023
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Research paper in Communications Earth and Environment shows progress in Australia towards United Nations goals, making rivers more able to recover from flood, drought and other impacts.
Environment
Apr 12, 2023
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After lightning struck a tree in a New Port Richey neighborhood, a University of South Florida professor discovered the strike led to the formation of a new phosphorus material. It was found in a rock—the first time in ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2023
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Protected Indigenous reservations in the Amazon rainforest absorb thousands of tons of airborne pollution each year, saving around $2 billion annually in healthcare costs for treating respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, ...
Environment
Apr 9, 2023
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Reduced predictability of seasonal rainfall might have played a significant role in the disintegration of Classic Maya societies about 1,100 years ago. "Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic ...
Archaeology
Apr 7, 2023
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New research published today in Communications Earth & Environment suggests that the Amazon rainforest and its Indigenous territories can absorb as much as 26,000 metric tons of dangerous pollutants released by fires every ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2023
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Sixty percent of the world's fresh water is bound up in Antarctic ice sheets. Thirty million cubic kilometers of ice is perhaps a difficult number to grasp. But if absolutely all Antarctica's ice melted, the seas would rise ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 4, 2023
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ETH Zurich researcher Luca Dal Zilio offers an insightful summary of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, shedding light on the complex nature of this event. He discusses the lessons that can be drawn from it to better ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2023
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Deep carbon cycling at subduction zones affects the long-term habitability of Earth's surface by regulating atmospheric CO2 concentrations. How the carbon is transferred from the slab to the subarc mantle has thus far eluded ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2023
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The "Last Ice Area" north of Greenland and Canada is the last sanctuary of all-year sea ice in this time of rising temperatures caused by climate change. A new study now suggests that this may soon be over.
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2023
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