Down in the slumps: Tracing erosion cycles in arctic permafrost
In the Arctic, landslide-like features known as mega retrogressive thaw slumps are threatening infrastructure, altering regional biogeochemistry, and emitting carbon......»»
Qlik Sense flaws exploited in Cactus ransomware campaign
Attackers are exploiting three critical vulnerabilities in internet-facing Qlik Sense instances to deliver Cactus ransomware to target organizations, Arctic Wolf researchers have warned. The exploited vulnerabilities Qlik Sense is a business intellig.....»»
Q&A: Can scientific ingenuity turn the clock back on climate change?
The summer of 2023 was the hottest on record. Climate change fueled destructive hurricanes in Florida, more intense monsoons in India, and melted sea ice to historically low levels in the Arctic and Antarctic......»»
Mussel beach: Belgium"s recipe to fight erosion
Belgian mussels have long satisfied hungry diners, but an experiment is now underway to see if they can also protect Belgium's North Sea coast......»»
Climate shapes life-history traits of abundant bacteria in Qinghai-Tibet plateau
Microorganisms are essential to grassland soil ecosystems and play a critical role in biogeochemical cycles. Microbial communities can be classified into distinct ecological groups based on common life-history traits, which reveals the processes in h.....»»
Understanding the link between biodiversity loss and technology life cycles
The efforts to increase society's environmental sustainability focus on four major challenges that need to be addressed: climate change, natural resource dissipation, environmental pollution, and biodiversity loss......»»
Sand mining in Vietnam"s Mekong Delta sinks homes, livelihoods
One summer morning, Le Thi Hong Mai's home collapsed into a river in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, where shoreline erosion caused by sand mining and hydropower dams threatens hundreds of thousands of people......»»
Arctic Weather Satellite shipped to Germany for series of tests
Embracing the New Space approach, it has taken just 36 months to develop and build ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite. Now complete, this remarkable microsatellite has been shipped from OHB in Sweden to Germany where it is starting a series of tests to m.....»»
Research in Lake Superior reveals how sulfur might have cycled in Earth"s ancient oceans
Geochemist Alexandra Phillips has sulfur on her mind. The yellow element is a vital macronutrient, and she's trying to understand how it cycles through the environment. Specifically, she's curious about the sulfur cycle in Earth's ancient ocean, some.....»»
Tracing multiple evolutionary trajectories in aquatic crocodiles
In the geological past, several groups of crocodiles evolved towards a morphology adapted to marine life. However, the extent of these adaptations and their evolutionary trajectories remained unknown. An exhaustive study of their morphology by a scie.....»»
Benin struggles in battle to halt coastal erosion
Along its Atlantic coast, Benin's government has spent millions of dollars to protect coastal communities from sea erosion. But Doris Alapini can only watch as waves tirelessly eat away at her land and the large seaside restaurant she built......»»
Study sheds light on how Earth cycles its fossil carbon
As the primary element of life on our planet, carbon is constantly journeying from living creatures down into the Earth's crust and back up into the atmosphere, but until recently, quantifying this journey was virtually impossible......»»
Faster Arctic warming hastens 2-degree-Celsius rise by eight years, finds modeling study
Faster warming in the Arctic will be responsible for a global 2 C temperature rise being reached eight years earlier than if the region were warming at the average global rate, according to a new modeling study led by UCL researchers......»»
Apple highlights research into diabetes, activity and menstrual cycles
Data from Apple research programs and the Apple Watch have been used to study the impact of both general activity and menstrual cycles on the glucose levels of diabetics.Apple WatchAhead of World Diabetes Day on November 14, Apple and researchers fro.....»»
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire trailer brings a chill to NYC
The first trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire brings the new team to New York City just in time for a supernatural arctic blast that may freeze the city......»»
The first assimilation of CryoSat-2 summer observations provides accurate estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness
Scientists have improved a data assimilation system for better estimating Arctic summer sea ice thickness (SIT) by assimilating satellite-based summer SIT and ice concentration data with an incremental analysis update (IAU) approach. Their study show.....»»
Arctic Ocean soundscapes reveal changes in mammal populations in response to climate change
While the sounds of our oceans may be familiar to us through the lens of nature documentaries, from the haunting calls of whales to the barks of some fish, this acoustic environment can provide a wealth of knowledge to scientists regarding the comple.....»»
Sustainable alternatives key to combating fast fashion"s environmental toll, study finds
For the last three decades, the advent of "fast fashion" has disrupted the traditional fashion cycles by capitalizing on retailers' and consumers' responsiveness to the novelty of new fashion trends. Some fast fashion retailers go as far as deliverin.....»»
Arctic archipelago turns the page on its mining past
At the old Svea mine in the Arctic, broken railway tracks overgrown with weeds lead nowhere. Of the hundred buildings that once made up the town, there's almost nothing left......»»
A new type of ringed seal described in West Greenland
The Arctic marine ecosystem is undergoing substantial changes, currently warming at rates well above the global average and seeing an increase in anthropogenic activities. Yet, due to the unexplored "hidden" nature of the Arctic, uncertainties remain.....»»
Firsthand fieldwork: Getting mangroves into coastal models for better climate prediction
To better understand important dynamics at play in flood-prone coastal areas, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists working on simulations of Earth's carbon and nutrient cycles paid a visit to scientists gathering data in a Texas wetland. There, t.....»»