Thawing permafrost: Research suggests it"s not a climate tipping point, but nevertheless has far-reaching impacts
Permafrost soils store large quantities of organic carbon and are often portrayed as a critical tipping element in the Earth system, which, once global warming has reached a certain level, suddenly and globally collapses. Yet this image of a ticking.....»»
Changing water conservation attitudes positively impacts water availability, study finds
The increased demand for clean water and its limited supply has made water management one of the most pressing challenges facing society today. Changing attitudes about water conservation could significantly impact water consumption and help address.....»»
Aging-emulating biosystem derived from hTSCs
A research team from the Center for Translational Stem Cell Biology (CTSCB) under the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has developed the world's first cellular system that can be used to rapidly discover molecules for a.....»»
Climate lawsuits against companies on the rise: report
Companies worldwide have faced mounting legal pressure to reduce their impact on global warming as activists use litigation to fight climate change, according to a new report Thursday......»»
As ice melts, Everest"s "death zone" gives up its ghosts
On Everest's sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world's highest mountain......»»
Antarctic ice shelves hold twice as much meltwater as previously thought
Slush—water-soaked snow—makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet is poorly accounted for in regional climate models......»»
Early childhood problems linked to persistent school absenteeism
Children who are not considered "school-ready" by their teachers are more than twice as likely to become persistently absent at some point in their education, according to a new study led by the University of Leeds......»»
Rivian still faces cash burn, cooling sales despite $1 billion infusion from Volkswagen, analysts say
Volkswagen will infuse $1 billion into Rivian as the EV maker develops new models. But analysts point out a growing cash burn for Rivian......»»
Canceled Geoengineering Experiment to Block the Sun Won’t Stop Rich Donors from Trying
A botched geoengineering experiment to limit the amount of sunlight hitting Earth hasn’t dimmed donors’ enthusiasm for funding the research.....»»
Mangrove Trees Are on the Move, Taking the Tropics with Them
As the climate warms, mangroves are migrating farther poleward, transforming the coast as they go.....»»
July/August 2024: Three New Books, Reviewed
A riveting quest to map the world; quantum physics in a four-act drama; climate solutions that show what we’re doing right.....»»
The Gas Industry Is Gaslighting the Public about Climate Change
A fossil-fuel executive blames consumers for the climate crisis.....»»
AC Costs Will Finally Be Covered for Public Housing Resident
The Department of Housing and Urban Development long refused to pay cooling costs for public housing, but climate-change-fueled heat waves have underscored the public health need.....»»
Major Apple campus at Research Triangle Park delayed by up to four years
Work still hasn’t started on a major Apple campus some six years after the company announced the plan, and a new report says that work on the project has now been further delayed by “up to four years.” That could mean a full decade between A.....»»
Developer errors lead to long-term exposure of sensitive data in Git repos
Credentials, API tokens, and passkeys – collectively referred to as secrets – from organizations around the globe were exposed for years, according to Aqua Security’s latest research. By scanning the most popular 100 organizations on GitHub.....»»
Sharing false political information on social media may be associated with positive schizotypy, research suggests
Sharing false political information on social media by users may be associated with aspects of personality such as positive schizotypy, a set of traits including paranoia, suspicion and disrupted thinking patterns. It may also be linked to a motivati.....»»
More women in venture capital doesn"t mean more funding for female-led businesses, new research suggests
Venture capital plays an important role in helping new businesses get off the ground. The field also has a stubborn gender gap......»»
Time-compression in electron microscopy: Terahertz light controls and characterizes electrons in space and time
Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany have advanced ultrafast electron microscopy to unprecedented time resolution. Reporting in Science Advances, the research team presents a method for the all-optical control, compression, and charact.....»»
Five ways to improve the global voluntary carbon credit markets
The severity of climate change means we all need to reduce our carbon footprint to zero as quick as possible, including companies. The voluntary carbon markets were set up to allow companies to buy and sell carbon credits to offset their emissions......»»
World record 402 Tb/s transmission in a standard commercially available optical fiber
An international joint research team led by the Photonic Network Laboratory of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has demonstrated a record-breaking aggregate optical transmission bandwidth of 37.6 THz to e.....»»
New tool enables faster, more cost-effective genome editing of traits to improve agriculture sustainability
With the goal of reducing the time and cost it takes to bring an improved crop to the marketplace to improve agriculture sustainability, research conducted in the laboratory of Keith Slotkin, Ph.D., and his colleagues in the Plant Transformation Faci.....»»