ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

New scale to characterize strength and impacts of atmospheric river storms

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE 02.06.2019 08:33 AM

A team of researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has created a scale to characterize the strength and impacts of "atmospheric rivers," long narrow bands of atmospheric water vapor pushed along by strong winds. They are prevalent over the Pacific Ocean and can deliver to the Western United States much of its precipitation during just a few individual winter storms.

Rapid gene cloning technique will transform crop disease protection

02.05.2019 08:56 AM

Researchers have pioneered a new method which allows them to rapidly recruit disease resistance genes from wild plants and transfer them into domestic crops.

NW Forest Plan 25 years later: Wildfire losses up, bird populations down

02.05.2019 08:34 AM

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Twenty-five years into a 100-year federal strategy to protect older forests in the Pacific Northwest, forest losses to wildfire are up and declines in bird populations have not been reversed, new research shows.

Earth's largest extinction event likely took plants first

02.01.2019 13:49 PM

Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered its wrath long before many animal counterparts, says new research led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

NASA's Aqua satellite shows winds shear affecting Tropical Cyclone Riley

01.31.2019 08:55 AM

Visible from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed the effects of wind shear on Tropical Cyclone Riley in the Southern Indian Ocean.

China not 'walking the walk' on methane emissions

01.30.2019 09:51 AM

Chinese regulations on coal mining have not curbed the nation's growing methane emissions over the past five years as intended

Graphene and related materials safety: human health and the environment

01.28.2019 19:54 PM

The Graphene Flagship project has a dedicated Work Package studying the impact of graphene and related materials on our health, as well as their environmental impact. This enables safety by design to become a core part of innovation.

Identifying factors that influence mercury levels in tuna

01.23.2019 10:49 AM

Most consumers' exposure to toxic methylmercury occurs when they eat fish. But research just published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology could help clarify why methylmercury concentrations in tuna vary geographically.

Antarctic krill population contracts southward as polar oceans warm

01.22.2019 18:17 PM

The population of Antarctic krill, the favourite food of many whales, penguins, fish and seals, shifted southward during a recent period of warming in their key habitat, new research shows.

The diversity of rural African populations extends to their microbiomes

01.22.2019 08:49 AM

Research from the Perelman School of Medicine and School of Arts and Sciences pointed to a role for lifestyle, geography, and genetics, with surprising similarities to US populations in some cases

Fossil shark teeth discovered in leftover rock that contained SUE the T. rex

01.21.2019 09:20 AM

Scientists have discovered a new species of fossil shark in the leftover rock excavated with SUE, the world's largest and most complete T. rex. This new shark, named Galagadon for its Galaga spaceship-shaped teeth, lived in fresh water, in a river that SUE likely drank from.

Ecological benefits of part-night lighting revealed

01.21.2019 09:19 AM

Night-time pollinators benefit from street lights being switched off in the middle of the night Switching off street lights to save money and energy could have a positive knock-on effect on our nocturnal pollinators, according to new research.

Unraveling of 58-year-old corn gene mystery may have plant-breeding implications

01.18.2019 08:24 AM

In discovering a mutant gene that 'turns on' another gene responsible for the red pigments sometimes seen in corn, researchers solved an almost six-decades-old mystery with a finding that may have implications for plant breeding in the future.

Scientists identify two new species of fungi in retreating Arctic glacier

01.16.2019 14:44 PM

Two new species of fungi have made an appearance in a rapidly melting glacier on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, just west of Greenland. A collaborative team of researchers from Japan's National Institute of Polar Research, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Tokyo, Japan, and Laval University in Québec, Canada made the discovery.

Fossil deposit is much richer than expected

01.14.2019 11:52 AM

Paleontologist at the University of Bonn analyses finds from the Dutch town of Winterswijk It has long been known that a quarry near the Dutch town of Winterswijk is an Eldorado for fossil lovers.

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