progscrape: environment

Widespread loss of marine sponges possible as heatwaves intensify

51 days ago wgtn.ac.nz environment

Amazon rainforest generates US $20 billion worth of rainfall each year

47 days ago nature.com amazon environment

More than half of the world's coral reefs were bleached between 2014-2017 -- a record-setting episode now being eclipsed by another series of devastating heatwaves

54 days ago france24.com environment

Drug-Related Deaths Spike After Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

43 days ago publichealth.columbia.edu environment

Agricultural waste could lock away carbon for decades if it were instead used in long-lasting building materials, fibrous residues from crops such as wheat, rice and maize, could act as a powerful carbon sink when diverted into construction products

2 months ago uel.ac.uk environment

Most climate studies only look at average temperatures, missing the full picture

58 days ago journals.plos.org environment

Climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere more quickly than previously thought, introducing significant uncertainty into climate projections for the rest of the 21st.

2 months ago pnas.org environment

Deforestation has turned parts of the Amazon into a savanna-like climate

50 days ago nature.com amazon environment

Chemicals brought in to help protect our ozone layer (CFC replacements) have had the unintended consequences of spreading vast quantities of a potentially toxic ‘forever chemical’ around the globe

58 days ago lancaster.ac.uk environment

Researchers reconstructed emissions from Swedish wildfires and found that current climate estimates are failing to fully account for carbon released from smoldering organic soils.

36 days ago news.berkeley.edu environment release