Forests may flip from CO2 'sink' to 'source' by 2050

Forests and other land ecosystems today absorb 30 percent of humanity’s CO2 pollution, but rapid global…

Hot again: 2020 sets yet another global temperature record

Earth’s rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported…

Cancer models created by mechanical engineers offer new insight into tumor growth

Engineers have developed in vitro — in the lab — lymphatic vessel model to study the…

Population density and virus strains will affect how regions can resume normal life

As a new, apparently more transmissible version of the virus that causes COVID-19 has appeared in…

Borrowing from birds, experts reduce search times for novel high-entropy alloys to seconds

Computational materials science experts have enhanced an algorithm that borrows its approach from the nesting habits…

Asteroids vs. microbes

Inside one of the containers of this 40-cm-across miniature laboratory in orbit, a battle is set…

Posidonia marine seagrass can catch and remove plastics from the sea

Posidonia oceanica seagrass can take and remove plastic materials that have been left at the sea,…

Teeth pendants speak of the elk's prominent status in the Stone Age

The elk was the most important animal to the people inhabiting the northern coniferous belt, with…

New classification marks paradigm shift in how conservationists tackle climate change

A new study introduces a classification called Resistance-Resilience-Transformation (RRT) that enables the assessment of whether and…

Outdated carbon credits from old wind and solar farms are threatening climate change efforts

French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of “carbon neutral…