Cutting farm nitrous oxide emissions helps climate and ozone layer, research shows
Farming methods can reduce nitrous oxide emissions without slowing down the overall recovery of the ozone layer, results from new research has shown.
Farming methods can reduce nitrous oxide emissions without slowing down the overall recovery of the ozone layer, results from new research has shown.
Environment
Jul 10, 2024
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A global research team led by Texas Engineers has developed a way to blast the molecules in plastics and other materials with a laser to break them down into their smallest parts for future reuse.
Nanophysics
Jul 9, 2024
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Companies are facing pressure to become more open about how they do business. With income inequality, governance failures and the mismanagement of natural resource capital threatening both society and the environment, there ...
Environment
Jul 9, 2024
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Soil stores large amounts of organic carbon, whose dynamic changes can cause a huge impact on the global climate system. Forest succession is a long-term ecological process that can exert powerful effects on soil organic ...
Ecology
Jul 8, 2024
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Extraordinary amounts of energy, water, and capital are put into food systems. However, anywhere from 30 to 40% of the food that is produced ends up in landfills in the United States.
Materials Science
Jul 8, 2024
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Together with a Brazilian–German team, Senckenberg researcher Vinicius S. Ferreira has described a new species from the glowworm beetle genus Adendrocera. This group of insects is rare and only documented by very few specimens ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2024
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Global water scarcity, a result of both quantity and quality change, challenges the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. An international team of researchers has now developed a novel modeling approach to identify ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 8, 2024
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Agroecology—a science, practice, and movement that seeks social, political, economic, and environmental sustainability in the global food system—is gaining momentum in the U.S., according to a new Dartmouth-led commentary ...
Ecology
Jul 5, 2024
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Carbon in the atmosphere is a major driver of climate change. Now researchers from McGill University have designed a new catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane—a cleaner source of energy—using tiny ...
Materials Science
Jul 4, 2024
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Mangroves are crucial for biodiversity, climate change mitigation, and coastal protection but face threats from climate change and human activities. Traditional monitoring methods fall short in accurately capturing their ...
Ecology
Jul 3, 2024
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