A new plan unveiled on 21 August by the Trump administration ― the so-called Clean and Affordable Energy plan ― is set to dismantle Barack Obama’s signature Clean Power Plan, which was
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A new study published on August 15 in Nature suggests that alternatives to harmful neonicotinoid pesticides may be just as harmful to bumble bees. New sulfoximine-based pesticides were touted as
According to a new study published on August 15 in iScience, an open source interdisciplinary journal, ocean microbes may play a key role in atmospheric processes like cloud formation. The research,
According to a new study published on August 13 in Nature Ecology & Evolution, tax havens may play a major role in facilitating deforestation and illegal fishing (1). A brief
Assessing the impact of solar geoengineering: strategies to reduce global warming will not prevent crop damage
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A new study published on August 8 in Nature, a scientific journal, suggests that the positive effects of aerosols intentionally released into the atmosphere ― a form of solar geoengineering ―
A new project has just been set in motion to build a 3D map of the Ganges River, Lou Del Bello reports in Nature News & Comment on August 7.
A new study published on July 7 in Nature Communications, a scientific journal, examined the effects of long-term captivity on wild timber elephants in Myanmar (1). The study, performed by researchers
The detrimental effects of plastic on the environment are widely recognised, but a new study published on August 1 in PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, now shows plastics may
‘Attribution science’ may soon be making a regular appearance in weather reports: rapid assessments of the impact of global warming
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On July 27th, Dr Friederike Otto, a climate modeller at the University of Oxford, UK and her colleagues provided a preliminary analysis of the current heatwave oppressing Northern Europe, and unusually,
On July 26th, the Swedish military dropped laser-guided bombs on a forest fire that had been raging for nearly two weeks close to the town of Älvdalen, near its border