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Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual

Readers are urged to access the full report containing all relevant citations here. In a new paper published in King’s Law Journal – The Chemical Anthropocene: Glyphosate as a Case Study of Pesticide Exposures – the authors Alessandra Arcuri and Yogi Hale Hendlin state: As the science against glyphosate safety mounts

Materials that can revolutionize how light is harnessed for solar energy: Researchers develop new design rule for generating excitons will help advance next-generation devices

In a study published this month in Nature Chemistry, the team details the design of organic molecules that are capable of generating two excitons per photon of light, a process called singlet fission. The excitons are produced rapidly and can live for much longer than those generated from their inorganic

Roadmap for detecting changes in ocean due to climate change: Some impacts -- like sea temperature rise -- are already in progress; others expected to occur within next century

The study looked at physical and chemical changes to the ocean that are associated with rising atmospheric carbon dioxide due to human activities.

Mysterious release of radioactive material uncovered

Among the 70 experts from all over Europe who contributed data and expertise to the current study are Dieter Hainz and Dr.

Near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 not a threat for next century: Critical observation made on Maunakea during first night of return to operations

Observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 made on August 11 with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) have ruled out any potential future impact threat to Earth by this asteroid for the next century. 2006 QV89 was discovered on August 29, 2006, with a telescope in Arizona, and observations were only

Hurricanes drive the evolution of more aggressive spiders

Raging winds can demolish trees, defoliate entire canopies and scatter debris across forest floors, radically altering the habitats and reshaping the selective pressures on many organisms, suggests a new study published today in the journal Nature Ecology Evolution. "It is tremendously important to understand the environmental impacts of these 'black

July 2019 was hottest month on record for the planet: Polar sea ice melted to record lows

Here's a closer look into NOAA's latest monthly global climate report: Climate by the numbers: July 2019 The average global temperature in July was 1.71 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees, making it the hottest July in the 140-year record, according to scientists at NOAA's

Microplastic drifting down with the snow: In the Alps and the Arctic, experts confirm the presence of plastic in snow

The fact that our oceans are full of plastic litter has by now become common knowledge: year after year, several million tonnes of plastic litter find their way into rivers, coastal waters, and even the Arctic deep sea. Thanks to the motion of waves, and even more to UV radiation

Fracking prompts global spike in atmospheric methane, study suggests

The research suggests that this methane has less carbon-13 relative to carbon-12 (denoting the weight of the carbon atom at the centre of the methane molecule) than does methane from conventional natural gas and other fossil fuels such as coal. This carbon-13 signature means that since the use of high-volume

Jurassic world of volcanoes found in central Australia

The Cooper-Eromanga Basins in the north-eastern corner of South Australia and south-western corner of Queensland is Australia's largest onshore oil and gas producing region of Australia.

Stardust in the Antarctic snow: Iron-60 discovery in the Antarctic provides information on the environment of solar system

The quantity of cosmic dust that trickles down to Earth each year ranges between several thousand and ten thousand tons.

Rising summer heat could soon endanger travelers on annual Muslim pilgrimage

Hajj, or Muslim Pilgrimage, is one of the five pillars of the Muslim faith.It is an annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, that involves living in the hot weather conditions of Saudi Arabia.

More 'reactive' land surfaces cooled the Earth down: Higher reactivity could explain temperature drop before last ice age

In a new study, Jeremy Caves-Rugenstein from ETH Zurich, Dan Ibarra from Stanford University and Friedhelm von Blanckenburg from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam were able to show that this paradigm cannot be upheld. According to the paper, weathering was constant over the period under consideration.

Hear them roar: How humans and chickadees understand each other: High-arousal vocalizations are understood by both humans and other species in the animal kingdom, study says

The researchers examined the elements within vocalizations that indicate a level of arousal such as fear or excitement..

Wood products mitigate less than one percent of global carbon emissions

An analysis across 180 countries found that global wood products offset 335 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2015, 71 million tons of which were unaccounted for under current United Nations standards. Wood product carbon sequestration could rise more than 100 million tons by 2030, depending on the level of