Without ozone, the Earth might get a lot colder

The evolution of Earth's climate contains many components. And new research has shown just how critical the ozone layer is to the surface temperature of the Earth. Without an ozone layer, our planet would be 3.5 Kelvin cooler.

How Arctic ice melt raises the risk of far-away wildfires

As millions of people in New York and other major North American cities choke on acrid smoke, they could point their accusatory fingers farther North than the wildfires ravaging Quebec—all the way to the global Arctic.

Researchers discover jet streams in Mars' magnetosheath

A research team from Umeå University and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna has discovered jet streams in the magnetosheath of Mars using data collected by NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. This is the first time such ...

Using CRISPR to make phages more deadly to E. coli

A team of bioengineers at SNIPR BIOME ApS, in Denmark, working with one colleague from AFRAL, Ljubljana, in Slovenia and another with JMI Laboratories in the U.S., has developed a way to use the gene editing tool CRISPR to ...

New tools capture economic benefit of restoring urban streams

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a suite of tools to estimate the total economic value of improving water quality in urban streams. The work can assist federal and state agencies charged with developing ...

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