Spreading coffee pulp, a waste product from coffee production, over degraded lands helps them recover quickly, a recent study found. By dumping 30 truck-loads of coffee pulp on a plot of degraded land in Costa Rica, researchers watched a small forest grow at a remarkable speed in just two years, the British Ecological Society reported. […]
By Andrew Christ and Paul Bierman In 1963, inside a covert U.S. military base in northern Greenland, a team of scientists began drilling down through the Greenland ice sheet. Piece by piece, they extracted an ice core 4 inches across and nearly a mile long. At the very end, they pulled up something else – […]
The Amazon rainforest likely emits more greenhouse gases than it absorbs, a first-of-its-kind study has found. The study, published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change on Thursday, is the first to consider emissions other than carbon dioxide, such as methane from floods and cattle, and black carbon from forest-clearing fires. “Cutting the forest is […]
People across New England witnessed a dramatic celestial event Sunday night. A bright meteor known as a “fireball” streaked across the sky over northern Vermont and made a loud banging noise when it entered the atmosphere, the Burlington Free Press reported. “I actually thought my apartment was being knocked off its foundation,” one resident of […]
As the planet warms, mountain snowpack is increasingly melting. But “global warming isn’t affecting everywhere the same,” Climate Scientist Amato Evan told the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. In a recent study, a team of researchers examined if snowpack melted faster in the Western U.S. than in other areas. […]
As the weather grows more severe, and its damages more expensive and fatal, current weather predictions fall short in providing reliable information on Earth’s rapidly changing systems. That’s why a team of European scientists and ETH Zurich computer scientists are putting their heads together to “marry” the earth sciences and computer sciences to create a […]
The climate crisis could push an important ocean current past a critical tipping point sooner than expected, new research suggests. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) helps move heat from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere, and is one of the reasons why Europe has relatively mild winters, Science Alert explained. However, the current has […]
The oceans and space are two of the last frontiers of discovery. It is only fitting, then, that technology originally designed to help map stars imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope has now been adapted to match spot patterns on the world’s largest fish, the whale shark, to help save it. Whale sharks can grow […]
By Jessica Corbett A new study from Australian and Chinese researchers adds weight to scientists’ warnings from recent United Nations reports about how sea levels are expected to rise dangerously in the coming decades because of human activity that’s driving global heating. The research, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, found that sea level […]
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