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Credit: Marine Biological Laboratory WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Nitrogen is an element basic for life -- plants need it, animals need it, it's in our DNA -- but when there's too much nitrogen in the environment, things can go haywire. On…

News from the Journal of Marketing Researchers from Columbia University and Georgetown University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines how consumers can adopt a sustainable consumption lifestyle by purchasing…

Credit: Benjamin Lecomte New research suggests Ireland's increasing populations of Sika deer may be linked to local outbreaks of TB infection in cattle. Although TB infection rates have decreased in general in recent decades,…

To prevent future pandemics, we must restore and protect natureCredit: Ali Rajabali / Flickr A growing body of evidence suggests that biodiversity loss increases our exposure to both new and established zoonotic pathogens.…

How do fireflies defend themselves against predators?Credit: BRANDON ALMS A new study at Tel Aviv University reveals a possible defense mechanism developed by fireflies for protection against bats that might prey on them.…

Transformed universities help transform the worldCredit: World Scientific At present universities are devoted to the acquisition of specialized knowledge and technological know-how. They fail to do what they most need to do: help the…

Researchers have discovered a group of soil bacteria that could yield alternatives to conventional fertilizers for enriching soil and improving crop yieldsCredit: Maria Harrison ITHACA, NY, April 2, 2021 - A team of…

How will the biggest tropical trees respond to climate change?Credit: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Giant trees in tropical forests, witnesses to centuries of civilization, may be trapped in a dangerous feedback loop…

Credit: Image produced using QGIS IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand…

The main conditions are a developed democracy and a transparent market economyCredit: UrFU / Ilya Safarov. A group of researchers from Russia, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland contest the common belief that resource-based…

Researchers investigating the economic costs of forest restoration find that more up-front investment in tree diversity leads to greater long-term benefitsCredit: Georgina Smith Every year, 10 million hectares of forest are lost.…

Fossil fuel producers in the U.S. are directly benefiting from implicit subsidies on the order of $62 billion a year because of inefficient pricing that doesn't properly account for the costs of damages to the environment, climate, and…

New metric can calculate and forecast the average price of the energy in the United StatesCredit: Rachel Barton/Texas A&M Engineering Since the early industrial revolution in the mid-1700s, fossil fuels have acquired an…

Texas A&M University Researchers analyze how flooding from Harvey increased exposure to harmful chemicals in the Manchester neighborhood of Houston The unprecedented rainfall from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 brought more than flood damage…

'This decade must bend the curves on emissions and biodiversity loss' Human actions are threatening the resilience and stability of Earth's biosphere - the wafer-thin veil around Earth where life thrives. This has profound implications for…

UC Santa Cruz researchers published a new study--in collaboration with UC Water and the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced--that suggests covering California's 6,350 km network of public water delivery canals with solar panels…

Credit: UiT - It is as if China is two completely different countries, if we look at how they appear in two such different cases as Africa and the Arctic, says Christer Henrik Pursiainen. He is a professor at the Department of…

Top electronics brands join new alliance to set shared vision for circular economy for electronics; release roadmap, vision on how to accelerate the circular transitionCredit: WEF Geneva, Thursday 18 March 2021 - Today, top electronics…

Credit: Photo: Arctia Ltd Statisticians have calculated the probability of ships of different Polar Ship Categories becoming beset in ice along the Northern Sea Route. Their data will help assess the risks of maritime…

Tucson, Ariz. (March 16, 2021) - This week, a new, peer-reviewed scientific study finds that there is far more potential jaguar habitat in the U.S. than was previously thought. Scientists identified an area of more than 20 million acres…