Several greenhouse gases are emitted as common plastics degrade in the environment, according to researchers from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology(SOEST). Mass production of plastics started nearly 70 years ago, and the production rate is expected to double over the next two decades. While serving many applications because of their ...
New research shows that a big earthquake can not only cause others, but large ones, and on the opposite side of the Earth. Their findings were published in Nature Scientific Reports, and are an important step toward improved short-term earthquake forecasting and risk assessment. Scientists at Oregon State University looked at 44 years of seismic data and ...
New research shows that not all corals respond the same to changes in climate. The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led study looked at the sensitivity of two types of corals found in Florida and the Caribbean, and found that one of them — mountainous star coral — possesses an ...
California’s Coachella Valley may be ground zero for a new chapter in water rights for Native American tribes, according to a new Stanford study published in the journal Science. Better known for lush golf courses, glittering pools, a popular music festival, and temperatures topping 120 degrees, this inland desert is also home to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, ...
For the first time, scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and five other organizations have shown that human influences significantly impact changing seasons — the size of the seasonal cycle of temperature in the lowest layer of the atmosphere. To demonstrate this, they applied a so-called “fingerprint” technique. Fingerprinting seeks to separate human and ...
Neal Stewart and his University of Tennessee coauthors of a study published in Science, explore the future of houseplants as aesthetically pleasing and functional sirens of home health. The idea is to genetically engineer houseplants to serve as subtle alarms that something is amiss in our home and office environments. Stewart, a professor of plant sciences in the UT ...
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that radical changes of one volcano in southern Japan were the direct result of an erupting volcano 22 kilometers (13.7 miles) away. The observations from the two volcanoes — Aira caldera and Kirishima — show that the two were connected through a common subterranean magma source in the ...
A major reason for climate change is said to be large-scale CO2 emissions that make the planet hotter and melt the ice caps. But what if we developed a technology that could productively control CO2 emissions? That is a question CarbonCure, a Candian startup based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, answers with its unique offering. The ...
The size of China’s farms is a key contributor to the overuse of agricultural chemicals, and as a result, they may be too small to be environmentally sustainable, a new study has found. The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, found agricultural chemicals are often ...
Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1,300-km-long San Andreas Fault Zone (SAFZ) could be the nucleation site of the next major earthquake on the fault, yet geoscientists cannot evaluate this hazard until the location and geometry of the fault zone are documented. In their new paper for Lithosphere, Susanne Jänecke and colleagues ...
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