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January 21, 2025
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Jan. 20, 2025 A global survey spanning 68 countries reveals that public trust in scientists is still high. A team of 241 researchers conducted the largest post-pandemic study of trust in science, societal expectations and public views on research ...
Jan. 16, 2025 Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a new study. This publicly available forty-year global quantitative inventory seeks to inform policy regarding the environmental ...
Jan. 15, 2025 Small-scale fisheries play a significant but overlooked role in global fisheries production and are key to addressing hunger and malnutrition while supporting livelihoods around the world, according to new research. The study rigorously quantified ...
Jan. 13, 2025 Scientists have mapped the amount of water stored beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades and found an aquifer many times larger than previously estimated -- at least 81 cubic kilometers. The finding has implications for ...
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Jan. 9, 2025 An international team of scientists has called for the creation of an 18th addition to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which would aim to mitigate against the accumulation of space ...
Jan. 10, 2025 Greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture could be significantly reduced in a socially equitable way through a climate fee on food, combined with ...
Jan. 3, 2025 Brazil's Bolsa Fam lia Program, one of the world's largest conditional cash transfer programs, was responsible for the reduction of more than half ...
Jan. 3, 2025 Farmers are receiving less of what consumers spend on food, as modern food systems increasingly direct costs toward value-added components like ...
Dec. 13, 2024 Tsunamis can cause immense physical damage to ports, but the economic cost does not stop there. The resultant disruptions of shipping lanes result in billions of dollars in losses every day, as was ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Climate and land use change have and will continue to alter streamflow regimes and water quality through the 21st century, with consequences for drinking water treatment costs, flood protection, and ...
Dec. 10, 2024 Greenhouse gas emissions from tourism have been growing more than 2 times faster than those from the rest of the global economy. The study tracked international and domestic travel for 175 countries ...
Dec. 10, 2024 AI predicts that most of the world will see temperatures rise to 3C much faster than previously ...
Dec. 5, 2024 As climate change accelerates, scientists are sounding the alarm about its potentially devastating impact on the world's food supply. Researchers ...
Nov. 29, 2024 Water can be a catalyst for peace and security with a critical role in preventing conflicts and promoting cooperation among communities and nations ...
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Dec. 19, 2024 More American cities -- even those seen as affluent -- are home to people living without running water as people are being 'squeezed' by unaffordable housing and the cost-of-living crisis, ...
Nov. 27, 2024 Contrary to widespread concerns that global crop yields have stagnated in recent decades, a comprehensive study of worldwide food production finds yields have continued to grow at roughly the same ...
Nov. 26, 2024 A study offers a solution to water scarcity during droughts amid the tug of economic development, population growth and climate uncertainty for water users in Western U.S. states. The proposed ...
Nov. 21, 2024 A new study estimates that a 1-meter sea level rise by 2100 would affect over 14 million people and $1 trillion worth of property along the Southeast Atlantic ...
Nov. 21, 2024 The fact that plastics pollute the environment and generate problems has been well-researched in many areas. However, there is little information on the impacts of plastics on climate and ...
Nov. 21, 2024 Researchers advocate the use of imagination in tackling the climate crisis. They focus specifically on urbanizing river deltas, which are of great social and economic importance and highly vulnerable ...
Nov. 20, 2024 Researchers are looking at the impact of climate change in communities affected by conflict and have found that many countries most impacted by these crises are being ...
Nov. 18, 2024 An international group of authors who developed the science behind net zero demonstrate that relying on 'natural carbon sinks' like forests and oceans to offset ongoing CO2 emissions from ...
Nov. 14, 2024 A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related ...
Nov. 13, 2024 How much land, water, and other resources does our lifestyle require? And how can we adapt this lifestyle to stay within the limits of what the Earth can give? A new article tackles these ...
Nov. 12, 2024 Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to new ...
Nov. 12, 2024 An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a machine learning framework that uses limited water quality samples to predict which inorganic pollutants are likely to be present in a ...
Nov. 8, 2024 Only a few weeks ago, massive precipitation produced by the storm 'Boris' led to chaos and flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. An analysis shows that in a world without the current ...
Nov. 8, 2024 The Planetary Boundaries framework is a pivotal tool for tackling the climate crisis and safeguarding humanity's future on Earth. For the first time, the full story of the Planetary Boundaries ...
Nov. 7, 2024 A new study has exposed for the first time how inhabitants of the smallest countries globally, contributing least to climate change, already bear the brunt of its devastating consequences and the ...
Oct. 31, 2024 Reports of drug-related supply-chain issues were 40 percent less likely to result in drug shortages in Canada versus the United States, according to a new ...
Oct. 30, 2024 Sustainable lifestyles, green-tech innovation, and government-led transformation each offer promising routes to make significant progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the ...
Oct. 28, 2024 Amid growing pressure to report on nature-related risks and impacts, an open-source footprinting tool offers a scientific and transparent ...
Oct. 24, 2024 Approximately 71 to 95 million people in the Lower 48 states -- more than 20% of the country's population -- may rely on groundwater that contains detectable concentrations of per- and ...
Oct. 23, 2024 Researcher presents a new model for risk research which takes interactions into account and brings together various ...
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- Climate-Driven Hazards Increases Risk for Millions of Coastal Residents, Study Finds
- Environmental Impacts of Plastics: Moving Beyond the Perspective on Waste
- Design and Imagination as Essential Tools During the Climate Crisis
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- Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Increase Again in 2024
- Machine Learning Predicts Highest-Risk Groundwater Sites to Improve Water Quality Monitoring
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- How Much Climate Change Is in the Weather?
- Pioneering Planetary Boundaries Science as Key to Mitigating Rising Planetary Risks
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- Green Education Can Create New Generation of Eco-Leaders
- Transition to a Circular Bioeconomy Requires Getting Prices Right
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- Coastal Cities Must Adapt Faster to Climate Change
- Women in Global Fisheries Industry Fall Through the Safety Net
Monday, August 26, 2024
- Public Trust in Drinking Water Safety Is Low Globally
- Scientific Consensus Can Strengthen Pro-Climate Attitudes in Society
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- Researchers Develop Index to Quantify Circular Bioeconomy
- Number of Pediatric Inpatient Psychiatric Beds in the U.S. Did Not Increase 2017-2020 Despite Youth Mental Health Crisis
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- Study Finds US Does Not Have Housing Shortage, but Shortage of Affordable Housing
- Polarization and Risk Perception Could Play Important Roles in Climate-Policy Outcomes
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- Basic Income Can Double Global GDP While Reducing Carbon Emissions
- Secure Access to Food and Water Decreasing for US Children
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- Rate of Global Warming Caused by Humans at an All-Time High, Say Scientists
- Some Countries Could Meet Their Total Electricity Needs from Floating Solar Panels
- Innovative Demand Strategies for Clean Energy
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- Health Risk from Global Warming Predictor of City Climate Action During COVID-19, Study Finds
- Research to Uncover the Impact of Water Use in the Colorado River Basin
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- Securing Competitiveness of Energy-Intensive Industries Through Relocation: The Pulling Power of Renewables
- Shoreline Model Predicts Long-Term Future of Storm Protection and Sea-Level Rise
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- One Third of China's Urban Population at Risk of City Sinking, New Satellite Data Shows
- More Sustainability in Global Agricultural Trade
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- Economist: Tens of Billions of Dollars in Forest Products Are Being Overlooked
- Food Security in Developed Countries Shows Resilience to Climate Change
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Atmospheric and Economic Drivers of Global Air Pollution
- How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- With the Planet Facing a 'polycrisis', Biodiversity Researchers Uncover Major Knowledge Gaps
- Climate Change Impacts Terrorist Activity
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- A New Way to Quantify Climate Change Impacts: 'Outdoor Days'
- Millions Are at Risk Using High Arsenic Water for Cooking