Scientists find extensive glacial retreat in Mount Everest region
A new study finds a decline in snow and ice on Mount Everest (second peak from left) and nearby mountains. Credit: Pavel Novak Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering ...
Scientists find extensive glacial retreat in Mount Everest region
A new study finds a decline in snow and ice on Mount Everest (second peak from left) and nearby mountains. Credit: Pavel Novak Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering ...
Scientists find extensive glacial retreat in Mount Everest region
A new study finds a decline in snow and ice on Mount Everest (second peak from left) and nearby mountains. Credit: Pavel Novak Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering ...
Scientists find extensive glacial retreat in Mount Everest region
A new study finds a decline in snow and ice on Mount Everest (second peak from left) and nearby mountains. Credit: Pavel Novak Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering ...
Cooling ocean temperature could buy more time for coral reefs
Coral reef in the Red Sea. Photo by Elena Couce © Limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world's oceans in the future could buy some time for tropical coral reefs, say researchers ...
Cooling ocean temperature could buy more time for coral reefs
Coral reef in the Red Sea. Photo by Elena Couce © Limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world's oceans in the future could buy some time for tropical coral reefs, say researchers ...
Sulfate aerosols cool climate less than assumed
Life span of cloud-forming sulfate particles in the air is shorter than assumed due to a sulfur dioxide oxidation pathway which has been neglected in climate models so far Measurement ...
Why Bears? (Video)
Credit: Emmanuel Keller (CC) "What if we could preserve wild spaces simply by protecting one family of animals?" This film is for teachers, scientists, non-profits and people interested ...
Carbon Dioxide at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory reaches new milestone: Tops 400 ppm
NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory after a snowstorm. Courtesy of Mary Miller, Exploratorium On May 9, the daily mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, ...
Black vulture returns to East Balkans
A black vulture (Aegypius monachus) has been spotted in the Eastern Balkan Mountains for the first time for more than 30 years. A photo-trap set up at the vulture supplementary feeding ...
Corals turn to algae for stored food when times get tough
Researchers at EPFL present new evidence for the crucial role of algae in the survival of their coral hosts. Ultra-high resolution images reveal that the algae temporarily store nutrients ...
Scientists find impact of open-ocean industrial fishing within centuries of bird bones
A Hawaiian petrel flies over part of its Pacific Ocean foraging grounds. Credit: Jim Denny The impact of industrial fishing on coastal ecosystems has been studied for many years. But ...
Productivity increases with species diversity
150 years later, research result proves Darwin prediction Environments containing species that are distantly related to one another are more productive than those containing closely ...
Using earthquake sensors to track endangered whales
Fin whale surfacing in Greenland. Photo by Aqqa Rosing-Asvid. (CC) The fin whale is the second-largest animal ever to live on Earth. It is also, paradoxically, one of the least understood. ...
"I care about nature, but …"
Self-assured entrepreneurs are more likely to act against their own pro-environmental values Many entrepreneurs claim that they care about sustainability, yet they make decisions that ...
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