The NISAR Earth science mission has moved a step closer to its 2024 launch. Its science payload of two radar systems, one built by NASA and the other by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), recently completed the ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 8, 2023
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Mars' south polar layered deposits of H2O and CO2 ice record its climate history. A new study links the long-term global movement of Mars' water from midlatitude to pole to a function of the planet's orbital configuration ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 7, 2023
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Forests hold a vast amount of Earth's terrestrial carbon and play an important role in offsetting anthropogenic emissions of fossil fuels. Since 2015, the world's tropical forests can be observed regularly at an unprecedented ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 7, 2023
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India's drastic COVID-19 lockdowns had a silver lining. With polluting industries and vehicular movement halted, urban dwellers were treated to bright, blue skies and views of snow-clad Himalayan peaks, long obscured by thick ...
Environment
Mar 6, 2023
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A Rutgers-led team of scientists studying virus-host interactions of a globally abundant, armor-plated marine algae, Emiliania huxleyi, has found that the circular, chalk plates the algae produce can act as catalysts for ...
Environment
Mar 6, 2023
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A new study reveals that both the carbon and nitrogen cycles continually adjust under global change, leading to dynamic coupling.
Environment
Mar 2, 2023
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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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