At first glance, no one would imagine that the Netherlands, located close to the Arctic, would fare well in large-scale agriculture. But the country has done just that. By adopting the latest agricultural technologies, it has become a global leader in the industry. It is the No. 2 exporter of food in terms of value, ...
Beijing has vowed to dampen its coal activities to help reduce the worldwide emission of greenhouse gases. However, a recent joint report from environmental groups shows China doing quite the opposite, thus putting global climate change goals in danger. Sneaky moves Global Energy Monitor, Sierra Club, and Greenpeace have published a joint report titled Boom ...
Research suggests future fusion reactors could be powered by helium-3 from the Moon. And now, nations are on a race to dig it up. However, compared to the past, when only a couple of nations like the U.S. and Russia had the technology to explore the Moon, the race to extract helium-3 is seeing increasing ...
Rising temperatures and extreme heat as a result of climate change are already exposing people to health risks across the globe, according to a new report from 27 global institutions co-led by UCL researchers. Outdoor workers, people with underlying health conditions, and the urban elderly are especially at risk, according to the findings published in ...
No one has a firm grasp on the dimensions and activity of the lowest part of our upper atmosphere, known as the ionospheric D region, because it’s a moving target. Located 40 to 60 miles above the Earth’s surface, the region moves up and down, depending on the time of day. And it’s nearly impossible ...
There have been no major ground-rupturing earthquakes along California’s three highest slip rate faults in the past 100 years. A new study published in Seismological Research Letters concludes that this current “hiatus” has no precedent in the past 1,000 years. U.S. Geological Survey researchers Glenn Biasi and Kate Scharer analyzed long paleoseismic records from the San Andreas, San Jacinto, ...
Two moderate-sized earthquakes that struck the southern Sichuan Province of China last December and January were probably caused by nearby fracking operations, according to a new study published in Seismological Research Letters. The December 2018 magnitude 5.7 and the January 2019 magnitude 5.3 earthquakes in the South Sichuan Basin caused extensive damage to farmhouses and other structures in ...
A new study establishes that environmental damage and air pollution caused by corn production results in 4,300 premature deaths annually in the United States, representing a monetized cost of $39 billion. The paper, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Sustainability, presents how researchers have estimated for the first time the health damages caused by corn production ...
A new strategy being rolled out in China suggests that farmers can do much more than harvest crops. The idea is that well-managed, diverse agricultural lands can provide flood control, water purification, and climate stabilization, among other valuable services. A recent case study by researchers at Stanford, McGill University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
A San Francisco federal court has ordered Bayer to pay US$80 million as compensation to a man who claimed he suffered from cancer after using the company’s weed killer Roundup. Punitive damages amounted to US$75 million with another US$5 million for compensatory damages. In addition, Bayer will also have to pay the plaintiff, Edwin Hardeman, ...
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