progscrape: environment

Some trees are making air quality in cities worse: willows and poplars, widely planted in cities, release high levels of isoprene, a VOC that reacts with nitrogen oxides to form ozone

59 days ago nature.com environment release

Fire managers rely on pre-1849 conditions to guide wildfire decisions

2 months ago nature.berkeley.edu environment

Hawaii’s dolphin tourism boom may be taking a toll on spinner dolphins, study finds

2 months ago sfgate.com environment

A study found single-use paper cups release millions of micro- and nanoplastic particles when exposed to hot water, with biodegradable PLA-lined cups releasing about 12 times more plastic by mass than conventional polyethylene-lined cups.

51 days ago pubs.acs.org environment release

Harvesting rainwater from rooftops could help cities stay cool and cut the number of heatwave days

2 months ago manchester.ac.uk environment

Low-smoke fuels for residential heating linked to an increase in ultrafine particle emissions

2 months ago nature.com environment

A global study using more than two decades of observations from 156 sites found permafrost degradation accelerated between 2000 and 2024, with the seasonally thawed active layer thickening across much of the Arctic…

54 days ago nature.com arctic environment

The World Is Running Out of River Sand, And That's a Massive Issue

2 months ago sciencealert.com environment

No place on Earth is resilient to all global catastrophic risks, according to a review on nuclear winter, volcanic eruptions, pandemics, and infrastructure collapse

57 days ago onlinelibrary.wiley.com earth environment

Magnetically driven MXene–nickel microrobots bound and retrieved microplastics from laboratory water and soil samples

2 months ago nature.com environment