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The biological productivity of the Southern Ocean in the summertime is substantially greater than many previous estimates have suggested, according to new airborne research by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research […]

The vast, deserted South Pacific is considered unspoiled nature. But this ocean is not as unspoiled as we would like to think. A new study by a group of researchers from ETH Zurich and the […]

Trees are countering nearly half the urban heating from pavement and buildings in the world’s cities, but they’re not doing enough cooling in hotter, poorer cities where it’s needed the most as the world warms, […]

Planting new forests may be a low-cost way to combat warming temperatures in urban areas, suggests a new study. In a large-scale field experiment, researchers planted 640 tree saplings across 20 parks in Dayton, Ohio, […]

A new study has unveiled a new method to cost-effectively and practically test for “forever chemicals” in water, potentially revolutionizing environmental PFAS monitoring. Led by Griffith University, the novel PFAS detection technique is a portable […]

Almost 60 countries, representing about a third of the global economy, met in the Colombian port city of Santa Marta for the first international summit on the transition away from fossil fuels.This post was originally […]

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22–28% of the Amazon, according to a new study from the […]

In central Seoul, South Korea, a motorway once covered a buried urban stream. Today, that same stretch has been uncovered—a process known as daylighting—and this river is home to plants, fish and insects. This flowing […]

Individual environmental laws, such as those related to the climate or nature conservation, are not sufficient on their own to resolve environmental crises. A new international study led by the University of Eastern Finland calls […]

In 2023 and 2024, Earth’s average global surface temperature spiked nearly 0.3 degrees Celsius above what was already expected from climate change. Each year was declared the hottest on record and coincided with deadly wildfires, […]