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Conversion to LED lighting brings a new kind of light pollution to Europe

A team of Exeter University researchers discovered that the slow conversion of outdoor lighting to LEDs across much of Europe has resulted in the...

Tropical wetlands emit more methane than previously thought

Since 2007, the world's atmospheric methane concentration has increased rapidly, but scientists aren't sure why. This is a problem because methane is an extremely...

UN sums up climate science: world heading in the wrong direction

With weather disasters costing $200 million per day and irreversible climate catastrophe looming, the world is "heading in the wrong direction," according to the...

Little Ice Age study reveals North Atlantic reached tipping point

Scientists used centuries-old clam shells to reconstruct how the North Atlantic climate system reached a "tipping point" prior to the Little Ice Age. The Little...

Mineral-microbe interactions play important roles in geological and environmental processes

A team of scientists critically summarises major advances in mineral-microbe interactions, including molecular mechanisms of interactions and macroscopic manifestations of such interactions over time,...

Natural climate solutions help mitigate climate change in China

Natural climate solutions (NCS), which include various land stewardship options, are methods of capturing carbon in terrestrial pools and/or lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions....

Crucial evidence explains the anomalously fast convergence between India and Asia in the Mesozoic

One of the most significant tectonic events on Earth was the Neo-Tethys Ocean's closure and the Tibetan Plateau's subsequent formation. How the Indian subcontinent...

Researchers find a link between health outcomes and sugarcane smoke exposure

According to a new study from Florida State University, sugarcane fires in South Florida emit harmful particulate matter in quantities comparable to motor vehicles,...

Vulnerable communities face a higher risk of socioeconomic injustice due to flood hazards

According to a new study published in Environmental Research, socially vulnerable groups are more susceptible to climate-change-caused flooding due to systemic disadvantages. The study also...

Chinese city dims lights in a heatwave power crunch

Official announcements said that a provincial capital in southwest China had dimmed outdoor advertisements, subway lighting, and building signs to save energy as the...

The new tool provides wave flooding predictions for West Maui

A new interactive mapping tool predicts coastal flooding in West Maui under various scenarios of sea-level rise and wave events for residents, property owners,...

Food production impacts Earth and its natural processes

According to new research, food production is already one of the most significant stressors on our planet, but it is made significantly more difficult...

First results from the paleomagnetic study of Cumbre Vieja

The first study of the magnetic properties of the lava and ash produced during the 2021 eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano (island of...

More evidence that California weather is trending toward extremes

Kristen Guirguis, a climate researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, led a team that discovered evidence that the risk of...

Lake Michigan water levels are expected to stay well below the near-historic highs of 2020

Another year of lower water levels and wider beaches for the Great Lakes region. July water levels in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are down...