Fathers exposed to chemicals in plastics can affect the metabolic health of their offspring for two generations, a University of California, Riverside, mouse study reports.
With Rapidly Increasing Heat and Drought, Can Plants Adapt?
At a time when climate change is making many areas of the planet hotter and drier, it’s sobering to think that deserts are relatively new biomes that have grown considerably over the past 30 million years.
Wildfires Are Increasingly Burning California’s Snowy Landscapes and Colliding with Winter Droughts to Shrink California’s Snowpack
The early pandemic years overlapped with some of California’s worst wildfires on record, creating haunting, orange-tinted skies and wide swathes of burned landscape.
Biorefinery Uses Microbial Fuel Cell to Upcycle Resistant Plant Waste
When nature designed lignin — the fibrous, woody material that gives plants their rigid structure — it didn’t cut any corners.
Project Aims to Shield Cayman Islands Turtles From Climate Change Threats
The islands’ sea turtles are recovering from over-harvesting – but climate change is causing habitat loss, an increasingly female population (the sex of turtle hatchlings is determined by temperature) and has the potential to reduce egg-hatching success.
New Study Highlights the Impact of Two New Marine Gases on Climate Models’ Accuracy
In addition to oxygen, nitrogen or carbon dioxide, the air we breathe contains small amounts of organic gases, such as benzene and toluene.
Honey Bee Colony Loss in the U.S. Linked to Mites, Extreme Weather, and Pesticides
About one-third of the food eaten by Americans comes from crops pollinated by honey bees, yet the insect is dying off at alarming rates.
Antarctic Iceberg on the Move
On January 22, 2023, the British Antarctic Survey reported that a new iceberg had broken from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf.
Fishing in Synchrony Brings Mutual Benefits for Dolphins and People in Brazil, Research Shows
By working together, dolphins and net-casting fishers in Brazil each catch more fish, a rare example of an interaction by two top predators that is beneficial to both parties, researchers have concluded following 15 years of study of the practice.
New Research Could Divert a Billion Pounds of Clothes and Other Fabric Items From Landfills
Canadians trash about a billion pounds—nearly 500 million kilograms—of fashion and home items made of fabric each year, but a new grading system could help divert most of it from landfills.