Investigation into plastic pollution moves inland
New research highlights the increasing threat of microplastics to global farming and food production.
Environment
Aug 17, 2022
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Input from those affected by environmental burdens must be incorporated into environmental justice tools
Because environmental justice screening tools will affect community members impacted by disproportionate environmental burdens, soliciting input from the environmental justice community is crucial to developing and using ...
Environment
Jun 2, 2022
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Proposed nitrogen fertilizer policies could protect farmer profits, environment
Nitrogen fertilizer has major implications for crop yields and environmental health, specifically water quality in the Gulf of Mexico. Federal and state governments have shied away from regulating nitrogen fertilizer use, ...
Ecology
May 18, 2022
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Positive for the environment and for the grower: The benefits of introducing herbaceous crops among mandarin trees
A Diverfarming project study compares the environmental footprint and the economic performance of traditional mandarin monocropping as opposed to growing mandarin intercropped with herbaceous crops and the use of deficit ...
Plants & Animals
May 17, 2022
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Cutting air pollution emissions would save 50,000 US lives, $600 billion each year
Eliminating air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States would prevent more than 50,000 premature deaths each year and provide more than $600 billion in benefits each year from avoided illness ...
Environment
May 16, 2022
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NASA climate research scientist wins World Food Prize
A NASA climate research scientist who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate was awarded the World Food Prize on Thursday.
Environment
May 5, 2022
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Study shows how to balance economic development goals with environmental conservation using freely available data
An international study published in the journal Conservation Science and Practice gives fast-growing nations a simple, inexpensive guide to inform planning and decision-making to help balance economic development goals with ...
Ecology
Apr 28, 2022
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For climate change mitigation, bipartisan politics can work
In an increasingly polarized nation, cooperation across party lines is key to sustained climate mitigation in the United States, according to a new CIRES study. To sustain climate progress over decades, bipartisan cooperation ...
Political science
Apr 14, 2022
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New approach better predicts air pollution models' performance in health studies
Nine out of 10 people in the world breathe air that exceeds the World Health Organization's guidelines for air pollution. The era of big data and machine learning has facilitated predicting air pollution concentrations across ...
Environment
Apr 6, 2022
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The Earth beneath us may be shifting -- not static
Ground-breaking research into the hot structures deep in the Earth suggest they could be much more fluid than once supposed.
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2022
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