progscrape: environment

Animal welfare is more important in driving pet owners' choices relative to the environment, study shows.

58 days ago frontiersin.org environment

Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment due to accidental contamination from lab gloves, which release stearate salts that are structurally similar to polyethylene and difficult to distinguish from plastics using standard vibrational spectroscopy

32 days ago theconversation.com environment release

An unexpected ally: Black Mangroves are moving furhter into Louisiana as winters become less cold, but where they become established, they also fortify soil and help slow down marsh erosion.

49 days ago lsu.edu environment

Climate change could cause ~123 million additional malaria cases in Africa by 2050

35 days ago nature.com environment malaria

Researchers analyzed 1,737 climate policies across 40 countries to identify what actually works

48 days ago tandfonline.com environment

Grasslands and wetlands are vanishing nearly 4 times faster than forests, a 15-year global study reveals

57 days ago pnas.org environment

Antarctica has lost 10 times the size of Greater Los Angeles in ice over 30 years

56 days ago news.uci.edu antarctica environment

Rising ocean temperatures are leaving mangrove forests "short of breath." A global study of 23 regions found high CO2 and low oxygen levels already push these nurseries to their limits, threatening the survival of sensitive fish species as stressful tidal cycles lengthen.

47 days ago agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com environment

Thwaites Glacier could shed 200 gigatonnes of ice annually by 2067—a loss rate equal to the entire Antarctic ice sheet today

43 days ago agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com antarctica environment

The Biden administration enacted over $198 billion in clean energy projects, the largest investment of its kind

58 days ago pnas.org biden environment