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...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA set of scientists at Fudan Univerity's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and CMA-FDU Joint Laboratory of Marine Metereology, collaborating with one associate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and another from the University of California San Diego, has discovered that weak tropical cyclones, likewise known as...
The earth has nine years to avert climate catastrophe. However, we are still pumping out record levels of pollution.A chimney from the Linden Cogeneration Plant is seen in Linden, New Jersey, on April 22nd, 2022. Credit: Kena Betancur / VIEWpressThe growing climate catastropheThe globe is rapidly coming close to a current level of climate catastrophe...
Credit: Environmental Pollution (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119852An article released in Environmental Contamination, authored by Saint Louis University (SLU) researchers, demonstrates that human closeness is the best indication of microplastics being located in the Meramec River in Missouri.Something in the waterA crew of investigators, carried by Jason Knouft, Ph.D., lecturer of biology, principal researcher with the WATER Institute...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainDuring the 27th World Climate Conference (COP27) in Egypt, which is now going on for two weeks, climate finance is once again a leading subject.At the 21st World Climate Conference (COP21) held in Paris in 2015, all countries concurred for the very first time to limit climate change with their reduction...
