progscrape: environment

Geoengineering could blunt El Niño’s fury | Simulations suggest that marine cloud brightening could weaken the climate pattern’s extremes

55 days ago sciencenews.org environment

Melting icebergs can weaken a massive, far-off ocean current system: from the Pacific to the Atlantic, iceberg melt weakens an ocean system that regulates the global climate

50 days ago lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu environment

Scientists estimate Earth’s last plants could survive up to 1.87 billion years as the Sun brightens

57 days ago sciencealert.com earth environment

Long-term exposure to air pollution linked to increased risk of Parkinson’s disease

54 days ago cam.ac.uk disease environment

Researchers developed ‘plantymers’: plastics that are sustainably produced from plant proteins and that break down naturally in the environment

34 days ago iop.uva.nl

Analysis of nearly 60,000 disaster records finds that 91.5% of Brazilian municipalities experienced at least one climate-related disaster between 1991 and 2024, causing more than 4,700 deaths, 129 million affected people and over $123 billion in economic losses.

51 days ago iopscience.iop.org economic environment

Co-produced analysis of citizen science worldwide finds AI could match professionals at analysing data but lacks legal and ethical guidance

2 months ago doi.org ai environment

Willie Nelson Urges Americans to Fight the Construction of Data Centers: They ‘Only Destroy the Environment Around Them’

35 days ago variety.com

Australian cave discovery shows grass was burned for magic, healing, and cursing for 25,000 years

41 days ago frontiersin.org australia environment

New study reveals clear-cut logging dramatically increases flood risk, turning 50-year events into 3-year floods, with the largest and rarest floods showing the greatest sensitivity—overriding a natural reduction in flood risk caused by climate change-induced snowpack loss.

56 days ago sciencedirect.com environment