A multi-institutional study led by University of Illinois and Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC) scientists concluded that, although soil moisture varies significantly both within a single field and from field to field ...
Agriculture
Jun 19, 2024
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Loss of scientific data from Russia's Arctic monitoring stations following the invasion of Ukraine has worsened information gaps that could have serious implications for tracking and predicting climate change globally, researchers ...
Environment
Jan 22, 2024
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Standing in an aspen grove, surrounded by slender white trunks and a canopy of leaves that rustle in the slightest breeze, it's easy to think only of the trees.
Ecology
Dec 19, 2023
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A wet year may have provided a mental reprieve, but Colorado continues to have more homes at risk from wildfires than any state besides California, according to the Wildfire Risk Report from CoreLogic.
Environment
Aug 16, 2023
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When it comes to the world's climate, in the past decade, Earth keeps sending us its summer siren's call.
Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2022
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Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events—and therefore largely unpredictable.
Plants & Animals
Jul 18, 2022
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A long time ago, the carbon was rock, buried in the earth as securely as a secret. Then an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented scale began. The rocks burned, and the atoms inside them disassembled into carbon dioxide ...
Ecology
Jul 6, 2022
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Renewable energy demand and consumption is at an all-time high in the United States.
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2021
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Terrestrial ecosystems help mitigate climate change by absorbing large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. A new study now confirms that changing climate conditions could reduce this effect because in warmer and wetter ...
Environment
Feb 24, 2021
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The unprecedented and deadly blazes that engulfed the American West in 2020 attest to the increasing number, size and severity of wildfires in the region. And while scientists predict the climate crisis will exacerbate this ...
Environment
Feb 17, 2021
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