As the calendar turned to November 2024, Japan’s iconic volcano and highest peak, Mount Fuji, still awaited the first snowfall of the season.
Study Finds Humidity Diminishes Daytime Cooling Gains in Urban Green Spaces
Urban green spaces provide shade for city dwellers facing rising temperatures brought on by climate change, but how much relief from the heat island effect do they provide when humidity is factored in?
Diverse and Diverging Demands on Forests in Germany
Research team analyse biodiversity, ecosystems and economics of enriching beech forests with conifers.
White Smokers on the Lake Floor
Spectacular chimneys discovered in the Dead Sea.
One or Many? Exploring the Population Groups of the Largest Animal on Earth
Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the world’s largest animal, the Antarctic blue whale, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300.
Planet Saw its 2nd-Warmest October in 175-Year Record
Earth saw another unusually warm month, with October 2024 ranking as the second-warmest October in NOAA’s 175-year global climate record.
Rainforest Protection Reduces the Number of Respiratory Diseases
Rainforest protection is not only good for biodiversity and the climate – it also noticeably improves the health of humans who live in the corresponding regions.
Breakthrough in Capturing ‘Hot’ CO2 From Industrial Exhaust
A metal-organic framework, or MOF, is capable of capturing CO2 at extreme temperatures.
How Animal Tracking Data Can Help Preserve Biodiversity
Today’s ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world’s biodiversity.
Climate Change Threatens Key Ocean Plankton Groups
Planktonic foraminifera are tiny marine organisms, which are essential to the ocean's carbon cycle.