Tag: ENN

Climate change has already begun to transform planet Earth, and over the next few decades these dramatic transformations are expected to accelerate in an ongoing response to greenhouse gas emissions.

An international team of scientists has recently found that non-native species are expanding their ranges many orders of magnitude faster than native ones, in large part due to inadvertent human help.

When a solar flare leaps out from around the sun, a small fleet of scientific instruments designed and built at the University of Colorado Boulder form a first line of defense—spotting these massive eruptions before any other instrument in space, then relaying the information to Earth in seconds.

Some parts of the world have been so successful in making inexpensive renewable electricity that we occasionally have too much of it.

The world is awash with greenhouses growing fresh vegetables year-round for health-conscious urbanites.

Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough to offset long-term drying conditions and increasing groundwater demands in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data.

Modern therapies have extended the lives of many cancer patients; however, survivors often live with chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease. 

Coffee drinking is a heritable habit, and one that carries a certain amount of genetic baggage.

Urgent changes are needed to solve the increasing problem of lost and wasted food, according to UNSW experts.

Numbers of puffins at one of the UK’s largest colonies have increased by around a third since 2017.