UC study sheds light on greenhouse gas emissions from Texas oil wells Uncapped, idle oil wells could be leaking millions of kilograms of methane each year into the atmosphere and surface water, according to a study by the University of…
Museum collections reveal the history of mic FIELD MUSEUM Forget diamonds–plastic is forever. It takes decades, or even centuries, for plastic to break down, and nearly every piece of plastic ever made still exists in some form today. We’ve known…
A survey recently mapped over 27,000 barrels of industrial waste and DDT. The sea bottom near southern California has been hiding a very dirty secret: decades of discarded chemicals in thousands of barrels. And the toxic debris field is even…
Perhaps because there are no chimney stacks belching smoke, the contribution of the world’s farms to climate change seems somehow remote. But agriculture accounts for a staggering 26% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Tractors running on diesel release carbon dioxide (CO₂)…
The tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis), a river dolphin endemic to the Amazon, has been declared endangered on the IUCN Red List, meaning all the world’s freshwater dolphins are now at threat of extinction. The species faces the same threats as another…
A new study by Simon Fraser University historical ecologists finds that Indigenous-managed forests—cared for as “forest gardens”—contain more biologically and functionally diverse species than surrounding conifer-dominated forests and create important habitat for animals and pollinators. The findings are published today in…
UCI environmental engineers analyzed a century’s worth of the Golden State’s blazes Irvine, Calif., April 22, 2021 — California’s wildfire problem, fueled by a concurrence of climate change and a heightened risk of human-caused ignitions in once uninhabited areas, has been…
FAU Harbor branch study shows 95 percent success rate with amoxicillin FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY CREDIT: JOSHUA VOSS, PH.D., FAU HARBOR BRANCH, CORAL REEF AND HEALTH ECOLOGY LAB Diseases continue to be a major threat to coral reef health. For example,…
MicroPlastics : The concern of plastic waste has been so severe that now microplastics circulate across the world like oxygen and water in the daily cycles of the atmosphere, according to a recent analysis. According to a mixture of experts…
As the climate crisis causes havoc in temperature and rainfall patterns around the world, one of the many crops under threat is humanity’s precious coffee. Now scientists have identified a coffee-making plant that could be more robust against the rigors of the shifting…
