On a cold night in November, a small group gathered at the boathouse of the Brooklyn-based Gowanus Dredgers to listen to Elizabeth Case, a glaciologist and Ph.D. student at Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2023
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In developing countries, a large number of retired industrial parks require economical and effective risk assessment and remediation. Assessing the comprehensive risk of large retired industrial parks remains a considerable ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2023
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A team of sustainability scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amhersthave announced in the journal PLOS ONE that they have developed a community-based framework, founded on extensive local and traditional knowledge, ...
Ecology
Dec 6, 2023
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In 2019, the GLOBE Land Cover project began asking volunteers to help map planet Earth by taking photos of their surroundings facing multiple directions, including north, south, east and west. Now, a new paper published in ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 5, 2023
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Nearly 1,000 birds were killed Oct. 4–5 when they collided with an illuminated glass building in Chicago. Though mass fatalities of this magnitude are rare, light pollution poses a serious—and growing—threat to migrating ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 4, 2023
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In Vietnam's driest and hottest region, a limbless forest creature took refuge under a rotten log, scrounging around for termites to eat. Suddenly, something lifted the nearly-blind animal into the air. It tried to defend ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 4, 2023
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High-intensity fires in 2020 and 2021 devastated the adult sequoia tree population globally, particularly at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in Northern California.
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2023
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In the mid 1990s, only 7% of Australia's land was protected for conservation. Now, it's more than tripled to 22%.
Environment
Nov 27, 2023
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A wildfire burning in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is believed to be the work of an arsonist, according to the National Park Service.
Environment
Nov 24, 2023
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A team of psychologists and animal behaviorists from the University of Turin, the University of Oulu, and Zoomarine Italia, Torvaianica-Pomezia, has found evidence indicating that the unique assortment of black dots that ...
