“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first published report of PCB11 in ambient air,” said Keri Hornbuckle, UI professor of civil and environmental…
Concerns arise when excessive irrigation of the container crops grown in soilless media leads to leaching and loss of nutrients and chemicals in runoff. The…
A wet climatic period was responsible for the phenomenon. According to climate scenarios, the climate may become wetter in this area, potentially giving rise…
Researcher Terry van Dijk of Wageningen University and Research Centre analysed the actions by concerned citizens in five green areas under threat of…
At the same time, the source of emissions has shifted dramatically as energy use has been growing slowly in many developed countries but more quickly in some…
The Global Carbon Project posted the most recent figures for the worlds’ carbon budget, a key to understanding the balance of carbon added to the atmosphere,…
The latest estimates of annual CO2 emissions indicate also that the pattern of emissions has changed markedly since the drafting of the United Nations…
The experiment will simulate predicted future rainfall patterns in a semi-natural grassland at Imperial’s Silwood Park campus in Berkshire, and scientists will…
A study suggests that pulses of water through wetlands result in lower average emissions of greenhouse gases over the course of the year compared to the…
Now scientists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council have developed a system that measures the individual layers of cloud above us which will make…
But when climate shifted dramatically there some 8 million years ago, precipitating a major change in vegetation, most species became locally extinct rather…
Ammonia emissions from seabirds have been shown to be a significant source of nitrogen in remote coastal ecosystems, contributing to nutrient enrichment…
A falling leaf often catches a poet's eye, but scientists also wonder about the phenomenon that causes leaves to fall, or abscission in plants. Abscission is…
MIT researchers and colleagues are working to find out whether energy from trees can power a network of sensors to prevent spreading forest fires. What they…
There’s a new player on the organic gardening front. It's called biochar, and it could be good medicine for the planet as well as for crops, because it can…
It is the first study to have investigated the complex interplay of the factors fire, competition, moisture and seed availability in relation to a grass…
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