Climate change: We're acting, but are we making a difference?
It's a big question: Is the world doing enough to adapt to the effects of climate change?
Environment
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Study shows warming climate will increase number of harmful algae blooms
When algae go wild, bad things can happen, especially when those algae produce toxic substances. The ripple effects can be potent and long-lasting.
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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Using electricity to give chemistry a boost
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are a promising class of materials that have many applications as catalysts, sensors and for gas storage. Widely studied over the past two decades, MOFs are typically produced using chemical ...
Materials Science
Sep 8, 2021
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Understanding cookiecutter sharks
For years, researchers studying marine life in the wild would occasionally come across animals—such as dolphins, swordfish, leatherback sea turtles, whales, white sharks and even humans—with oddly shaped plugs of tissue ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2021
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Undersea rocks yield earthquake clues
Earthquakes shake and rattle the world every day. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has estimated the number of earthquakes at some half a million a year, with some 100,000 that can be felt, and about 100 that cause damage. ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 6, 2021
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Helping India's smallholder farmers
To help smallholder farmers in India—farmers who own farms less than five acres in size—simply planting more crops is not enough, on its own, to provide year-round nutrition and the necessary food security.
Agriculture
Aug 5, 2021
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Concrete and the hard-core bacteria that stubbornly persist within
It's a most unlikely habitat and really has no creature comforts to recommend it. But University of Delaware researcher Julie Maresca and students in her lab are studying concrete and the life that stubbornly persists within.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 4, 2021
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Ability of urban trees, soils to maintain critical ecosystem services
If you're a tree, country life is much easier than city living. Rural trees—which can live long, productive lives of sometimes more than 100 years—draw on vast resources of an extensive forest network of nearby trees. ...
Ecology
Aug 3, 2021
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Keeping bacteria under lock and key
Scientists and engineers are constantly looking for ways to better our world.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 6, 2021
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Rethinking plastics: Team issues urgent call to action on plastics pollution
People lived without plastic until the last century or so, but most of us would find it hard to imagine how.
Environment
Jul 1, 2021
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