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Swapping meat for seafood could improve nutrition and reduce emissions

According to a Communications Earth & Environment article published online, sustainable seafood could offer more nutrition to people than beef, pork, and chicken while lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The results imply that policies to encourage the consumption of seafood as a replacement for other...

Artificial ocean cooling to weaken hurricanes is futile, study finds

According to a recent study, the benefits would be insignificant even if we had infinite power to artificially cool the oceans to the point where they would become weaker hurricanes. The Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science at the University of Miami...

Using math proofs, experiments, and simulations to show how a material wrinkles when flattened

A group of researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Syracuse University, and the University of Pennsylvania developed a method for demonstrating how a specific material wrinkles after being flattened. The group describes experiments they conducted with tiny pieces of plastic in a...

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, in a paper published in National Science Review. Significant challenges and future research opportunities have been identified. Minerals are the basic...

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 more than 2 feet from 2020, a year when waves devoured beloved stretches of sandy coastline. The other Great Lakes,...

How to store more carbon in the soil during climate change

Researchers from Cornell University, Ohio State University, Technical University of Munich, and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station are using synchrotron light to study how moisture affects soil carbon - an important ingredient for healthy crops and fertile fields. "Because of climate change, the Earth is warming and humidity events are becoming more dramatic," said Itamar Shabtai, a science assistant at the Connecticut Agricultural...