Following the UN’s recent release of their 17 sustainable goals this fall, the Chinese government is taking a step back to look at just how they can contribute to meeting these goals by 2030 despite still having air pollution so bad that it has contributed to 1.6 million deaths per year in the country. These goals aim to ...
Chemical clues in waters near Marcellus Shale gas wells in rural Pennsylvania can identify new drilling-related sources of methane contamination, according to scientists. The findings provide a new tool for distinguishing potential environmental impacts of shale drilling from pre-existing methane levels commonly found in Pennsylvania waterways, the researchers said. Scientists also found that methane contamination ...
Scientists have discovered that CO2-consuming bacteria in the deepest parts of the seafloor could be turning themselves into an additional food source for other deep-sea life. Bacteria living 4000m below the ocean surface in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ) are consuming carbon dioxide and turning it into biomass, a new study shows. Until now, scientists ...
About 252 million years ago, a rise in global temperatures resulted in a massive mass extinction in Earth’s history called the Permian mass extinction. Almost 96 percent of marine animals and 70 percent of land animals perished. All this happened in just a few thousand years. Scientists warn that a similar fate might await us ...
The Chang’e 4 spacecraft, launched by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on December 8, 2018, has reportedly entered orbit around the Moon. It is expected to land on the lunar surface sometime in January 2019. Chang’e 4 closer to the Moon The probe has traveled 240,000 miles to reach the Moon’s orbit. When it ...
When Chinese scientist He Jiankui declared in November that he had created genetically modified babies using CRISPR technology, the scientific community was horrified. Human gene editing is something that most countries have put strict restrictions on because of the various moral and medical implications surrounding the issue. And although the U.S. also has laws against ...
Powerful storms that cause extreme weather conditions — such as flooding across Europe and North America, with the potential to wreak social and economic havoc — could increase threefold by the end of the 21st century due to climate change. Pioneering new research, led by Dr. Matt Hawcroft from the University of Exeter, has shown new and ...
If you know anything about concrete, you know two things — no two pouring jobs are the same, and companies located in wintry locations face a host of unique challenges. Concrete that freezes inside a hopper or boom can leave you with a solid and unusable pipeline that brings your job and your livelihood to ...
Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter- and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many giant planets have been detected in such a young system. The system has also set a new record for the most extreme range of orbits yet observed: The outermost planet is more than ...
Where did Earth’s water come from? A team of Arizona State University geoscientists led by Peter Buseck, Regents’ Professor in ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) and School of Molecular Sciences, has found an answer in a previously neglected source. The team has also discovered that our planet contains considerably more hydrogen, a ...
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