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Amazon Deforestation Down 40 Percent So Far This Year

So far this year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 40 percent from the same period in 2022, according to government data.

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Astronomers Reveal the Largest Cosmic Explosion Ever Seen

A team of astronomers led by the University of Southampton have uncovered the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed.

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Secrets to Southern Ocean’s Critical Role in Slowing Climate Change Revealed

A new paper provides insights on one of the most important factors in the Southern Oceanic carbon cycle, the “biological pump,” where carbon is utilized by organisms at the surface and transferred to ocean depths, away from contact with the atmosphere. 

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Pacific Garbage Patch Gathering Place for Life Thanks to Currents

The North Pacific “Garbage Patch” aggregates an abundance of floating sea creatures, as well as the plastic waste it has become infamous for, according to a study published in PLOS Biology and co-authored by oceanographers in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).

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1950s Kīlauea Iki Lava Samples to Help Uh Scientists Understand Volcanic Eruptions

Earth scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa were gifted a set of precious basalt samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from the Kīlauea Iki lava lake between 1959 and 1988. 

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Nearly 90% Of Hanauma Bay Usable Beach May Be Submerged by 2030

A five-year study into the impacts of sea-level rise on the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve (HBNP) predicts 88% of the preserve’s usable beach will be underwater by 2030.

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UC Irvine Study Shows Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Irvine Weakens Brain Function

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine have found that exposure to traffic-related air pollution in Irvine led to memory loss and cognitive decline and triggered neurological pathways associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Port of Miami Corals Remarkably Persistent, New Study Finds

Researchers at the University of Miami Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) and NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and partners found the corals within the highly urbanized environment around the Port of Miami show great resilience against unfavorable conditions, such as poor water quality, excess nutrients, high temperatures, high salinity, and low pH levels.

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As Ocean Oxygen Levels Dip, Fish Face an Uncertain Future

Off the coast of southeastern China, one particular fish species is booming: the oddly named Bombay duck, a long, slim fish with a distinctive, gaping jaw and a texture like jelly.

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Growing Crops with Less Groundwater

On a warm February afternoon, Kirk Pumphrey walks down his rows of almond trees at Westwind Farms in Yolo County. 

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