Credit: Pixabay/ Public DomainThe research team's study highlights the intricate feedback loop between wildfires and the atmosphere, suggesting that smoke produced by large wildfires may lead to more intense fires. The team's use of various tools to measure the effect of soot and other particles emitted into the air during large wildfires could help...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainFloe Foxon, an info researcher with Pinney Associates, reflected on the number of bears living in parts of North America with the diversity of Bigfoot that has been seen in areas throughout time and believes there is a correlation.Foxon spoke on a current investigation that relates visualization of Bigfoot and bears...
Scientists believe many more dolphins die at sea than wash ashore.Dolphins located on the French coast are haunted by man throughout the year. To protect this species, Brussels counsel concerned with a sustainable agenda warns France´s Administration. On Wednesday, Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, chief of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO), said that he...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA group of four scientists at Pennsylvania State University analyzed the varying weather conditions in different regions of the world to gain a better understanding of the factors that limit the rate of weathering for different types of rocks.Carbon sequestrationThe researchers S. L. Brantley, Andrew Shaughnessy, Marina Lebedeva, and Victor Balashov...
Humans use a vast array of pharmaceuticals to stay healthy—what do those drugs and their breakdown products mean for the health of groundwater ecosystems? Credit: SharonDawn/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Engulfing a pill merely seems to make it disappear. In reality, drugs sooner or later leave your organism and go into waterways, where they can suffer more...
Can't Hear YouHave you ever struggled to be listened over the noise of street construction? That makes you not all also distinct from dolphins, heartbreaking new research suggests.Released lately in the journal Current Biology, a recent paper out of the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys studied a pair of dolphins named Delta...
The Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) is an ocean-color sensor that serves as a primary reference instrument for satellite measurements of the color of the ocean. Single-cell plants called phytoplankton contain chlorophyll that reflects the green in sunlight, which gives the ocean color. Researchers can study these measurements to better understand the planet's climate. MOBY...
The 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest brought record-setting temperatures from Oregon to British Columbia. Temperatures are displayed for 29 June 2021. Credit: European Space Agency/Copernicus Sentinel, CC BY-SA 2.0An extreme heat wave struck the Pacific Northwest in June 2021. Temperature levels soared above 40°C (104°F) across Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, sometimes also approaching...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainThe outcomes represent an initial step toward developing what scholars expect will become the capacity to foresee whether a slow-moving landslide will fail and slide downhill.Climate modification is leading more volatile precipitation patterns worldwide-- very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large quantities of rain or snow in a short...
A narwhal swims amid ice during spring migration. Leaving the coast later each year may leave narwhals more vulnerable to getting trapped in sea ice that stops them surfacing. Credit: ReutersA group of investigators affiliated with many institutions in Canada as well as Denmark has discovered proof that narwhals have been changing their seasonal migration...
