'It's an emergency.' Midwest towns scramble as drought threatens drinking water
James Rainbolt typically can tackle most problems at his rural water plant with some extra time or money.
James Rainbolt typically can tackle most problems at his rural water plant with some extra time or money.
Environment
Sep 19, 2023
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Increasing levels of toxic, synthetic chemicals are being reported in drinking water and drinking water reservoirs in Europe and around the world. One of the most notorious groups of these synthetic chemicals are PFAS, which ...
Environment
Sep 5, 2023
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It seems intuitive that forests would provide better habitat for forest-dwelling wildlife than farms. Yet, in one of the longest-running studies of tropical wildlife populations in the world, Stanford researchers found that ...
Ecology
Sep 4, 2023
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Coral on the Great Barrier Reef has regrown strongly after the big losses of 2016 and 2017, when water temperatures were significantly above the long-term average. While this is good news, it's largely luck. The reef experienced ...
Ecology
Aug 13, 2023
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Cetaceans, including dolphins and whales, spend their entire lives in the water. Unlike terrestrial animals, they face greater challenges in regulating their body temperature because water conducts heat 25 times faster than ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2023
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Climate change and increased groundwater pumping are likely to decrease the abundance of limu pālahalaha (Ulva sp.), a native and culturally important limu (native seaweed), and increase the habitat suitability of Hypnea ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2023
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Researchers at Italian Institute of Technology—IIT and University of Milan-Bicocca, in cooperation with Genoa Aquarium in Italy, have recently published a study in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, which demonstrates ...
Ecology
Jul 19, 2023
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It's easy to think of trees as part of the landscape. But what if the trees were the landscape?
Ecology
Jun 30, 2023
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The world's first international treaty on the high seas, set to be adopted by the United Nations on Monday, contains landmark tools for the conservation and management of international waters.
Environment
Jun 15, 2023
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A new publication from a team of scientists at USGS, Point Blue Conservation Science, and Conservation Biology Institute shows how knowledge coproduction—the collaborative creation of actionable information by scientists, ...
Ecology
Jun 7, 2023
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