Category: Science

Mixed species tangle of lianas, Mt. Archer National Park. Species include Austrosteenisia blackii', Parsonsia sp. and Sarcopetalum harveyanum. Credit: Mark Marathon/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Protecting nature starts with science....

Hamilton County Conservation District staff and volunteers survey the Cooper Creek in a pilot project to demonstrate that adding timber in select places upstream can create habitat for fish and...

For a new paper in the journal Science, Earth system scientists at UCI and other institutions tracked the greenhouse gas emissions embodied in the international trade of agricultural goods. They...

More and more shipping in the Arctic, including big transport tankers, poses challenges in this remote, pristine environment. Credit: MikhailSS / Shutterstock / NTB More than 600 fishing vessels sail...

Extreme heat across much of India and neighbouring Pakistan in March and April exposed more than a billion people to scorching temperatures well above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). The devastating...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A research team from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health found that employee and company resiliency may be enhanced through the opportunity for employees...

Water levels have plummeted at Lake Mead due to the American West's historic drought, exposing corroded barrels. Firefighters struggled Friday to contain a giant blaze that has been burning for...

New findings show a troubling lack of diversity—in participants and geography—in a fast-growing scientific field exploring nature’s effects on mental health. Credit: Joshua Brown/UVM New research shows that a rapidly-growing...

Declining ocean memory between the present and the end of the 21st century--blue indicates decline, red indicates increase in memory. Credit: Shi, et al. (2022) Using future projections from the...

“In high-poverty schools that were remote for more than half of 2021, the loss was about half of a school year’s worth of typical achievement growth,” explained Thomas Kane, who...