» Laser-treated cork absorbs oil for carbon-neutral ocean cleanup
23/04/24 15:00 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
Oil spills are deadly disasters for ocean ecosystems. They can have lasting impacts on fish and marine mammals for decades and wreak havoc on coastal forests, coral reefs, and the surrounding land. Chemical dispersants are often used to ...

» Testing the influence of light on nitrite cycling in the eastern tropical North Pacific
23/04/24 14:49 from BG - recent papers
Testing the influence of light on nitrite cycling in the eastern tropical North Pacific Nicole M. Travis, Colette L. Kelly, and Karen L. Casciotti Biogeosciences, 21, 1985–2004, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-1985-2024, 2024 We conducted ...

» Millennial-scale fluctuations of palaeo-ice margin at the southern fringe of the last Fennoscandian Ice Sheet
23/04/24 14:38 from TC - recent papers
Millennial-scale fluctuations of palaeo-ice margin at the southern fringe of the last Fennoscandian Ice Sheet Karol Tylmann, Wojciech Wysota, Vincent Rinterknecht, Piotr Moska, Aleksandra Bielicka-Giełdoń, and ASTER Team The Cryosphere, ...

» A 3D glacier dynamics–line plume model to estimate the frontal ablation of Hansbreen, Svalbard
23/04/24 14:38 from TC - recent papers
A 3D glacier dynamics–line plume model to estimate the frontal ablation of Hansbreen, Svalbard José M. Muñoz-Hermosilla, Jaime Otero, Eva De Andrés, Kaian Shahateet, Francisco Navarro, and Iván Pérez-Doña The Cryosphere, 18, 1911–1924, h...

» New algorithm solves century-old problem for coral reef scientists
23/04/24 14:21 from Ecology News - Biology News
An algorithm developed by a Florida Tech graduate student creates a new ecological survey method that allows scientists to unlock important historical data from a vast trove of coral-reef photographs dating back more than a century.

» Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica
23/04/24 11:18 from NERC Open Research Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date made live.
De Rydt, Jan; Naughten, Kaitlin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9475-9162 . 2024 Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 18 (4). 26, pp. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1863-2024

» Taiwan hit by dozens of strong aftershocks from deadly quake
23/04/24 08:40 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
Taiwan was shaken by dozens of earthquakes overnight and into Tuesday that left buildings swaying and some tilting, with the government saying they were aftershocks from a huge deadly quake that hit the island more than two weeks ago.

» Highest-level rainstorm warning issued in south China's Guangdong
23/04/24 08:30 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on Tuesday.

» When red-hot isn't enough: New government heat risk tool sets magenta as most dangerous level
23/04/24 08:20 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
Forget about red hot. A new color-coded heat warning system relies on magenta to alert Americans to the most dangerous conditions they may see this summer.

» In Brazil, hopes to use AI to save wildlife from roadkill fate
23/04/24 08:19 from Ecology News - Biology News
In Brazil, where about 16 wild animals become roadkill every second, a computer scientist has come up with a futuristic solution to this everyday problem: using AI to alert drivers to their presence.

» US advances review of Nevada lithium mine amid concerns over endangered wildflower
23/04/24 08:10 from Ecology News - Biology News
The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the U.S., amid anticipated legal challenges from conservationists over the threat they say it pose...

» To accelerate biosphere science, researchers say reconnect three scientific cultures
23/04/24 08:02 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
Researchers who study Earth's biosphere tend to operate from one of three scientific cultures, each with distinct ways of conducting science, and which have been operating mostly independently from one another, find the authors of a Pers...

» Auringon UV-säteilyltä pitää suojautua Suomessakin keväästä syksyyn
23/04/24 06:58 from Ilmatieteen laitoksen ajankohtaiset artikkelit
Parhaillaan Suomessa eletään aikoja, jolloin auringon UV-säteilyn voimakkuutta kuvaava UV-indeksi voi saavuttaa suojautumisrajan eli arvon 3 koko maassa. Ihon ja silmien suojaamiseen auringon UV-säteilyltä kannattaakin nyt kiinnittää huo...