Credit: olhar digital. France has reached its record dry spell of 31 days without considerable rains, the country’s climate service stated Tuesday, amid concerns over water reserves partly of Europe still reeling from last year’s severe drought. With rainfall across the country of less than 1 millimeter per day since January 21, the weather service Meteo...
Credit: Canva Women make up only 34% of graduates in the EU in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The amount is even lower in the STEM fields unrelated to care. The fact is that girls are systematically inhibited from studying these fields during their education, which restricts their chances for access...
Credit: Pixabay/ Public Domain The 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...
Guided by Dr. Michael Fradley, a group of scientists in the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and also North Africa (EAMENA) project utilized a range of open-source satellite images to carefully study the area around the eastern Nafud desert, an region little researched in the past. The unexpected results, released in the journal...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A 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...
Solar panels are seen on houses inAlmere Noorderplassen, The Netherlands. Credit: Unsplash / Daria Nepriakhina Since the start of the war early this year, a new report discovers that approximately a quarter of the European Union's electricity has originated from wind and solar. A record-setting number and the development in wind and solar has saved...
Planet Mars stock photo. Credit: iStock Ancient microbes on Mars likely triggered a climate change that led to their own demise, a report from Space.com explains. The study was published in Nature Astronomy, and it details how simple microbes that fed on hydrogen and excreted methane were likely abundant on Mars approximately 3.7 billion years back....
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The natural world has its own intrinsic electrical grid composed of a world web of tiny bacteria-generated nanowires in the soil and seas that "breathe" by exhaling excess electrons. In a new study, Yale College researchers found that light is an unexpected ally in fostering this electronic activity within biofilm bacteria. Revealing bacteria-produced...
Credit: Unsplash Specialists say that vegetables and fruit in stores will be smaller and look different as the summer's hot and dry climate impacts crops. Carrots, Potatoes, Brussels sprouts, apples, and onions are prone to be the most affected. Several locations of the UK have seen extremely low rain in 2022, and parts of England remain in...
Credit: Unsplash After weeks of scorching heat and dry conditions in the majority of the UK, with drought announced in parts of England, it seems that a big downpour is what we need. However, the heavy rainfall and thunderstorms predicted by the Met Office this week might be a threat. Researchers are warning that the storms can...
