progscrape: environment

Long-term adaptation pathways for Venice and its lagoon under sea-level rise [pdf]

46 days ago nature.com environment pdf

Global study of 480,000 wells reveals over 20% of coastal areas face significant groundwater depletion, with some levels dropping 50cm per year

48 days ago nature.com environment

A 1 μg/m3 increase in daily PM2.5 is associated with a 0.39% increase in daily suicides and a 50.5% increase in monthly suicide-related hospitalizations

52 days ago sciencedirect.com environment

Vegetation traps nearly 3x more microplastic than bare ground, but a review of 199 studies warns this is creating a ‘sink-hazard paradox’ where natural filters turn into toxic hotspots.

2 months ago pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov environment

A large-scale survey of over 3,500 US political elites shows near-unanimous agreement among Democrats on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and primarily caused by humans

52 days ago iopscience.iop.org environment

Wildfires have caused accelerating deforestation in California forests over the past 30 years, especially at high elevations, while replanting efforts have fallen behind.

41 days ago ucdavis.edu california environment

Forest degradation now causes carbon emissions comparable to deforestation, yet is overlooked by current Amazon protection policies

35 days ago pnas.org amazon environment

Highway construction is intensifying the urban heat island effect, the force behind a widening temperature divide between urban and rural communities.

49 days ago news.northeastern.edu environment

Summers across the midlatitudes, including most of North America and Europe, now last roughly 30 days longer than they did in the 1960s

51 days ago news.ubc.ca environment europe

A Japanese scientist spent decades working on a 1,200 year-old record of cherry blossom flowerings, helping to reveal the effects of climate change

47 days ago theguardian.com environment japan