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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
In a village in Kachin State, Myanmar, bordering China’s Yunnan province, a day laborer named Naw had earned just enough in the sugarcane and cornfields to feed his family of six before pandemic-induced border closures left him struggling to find work.
Temperatures deep inside the Earth are so high that part of its iron core is liquid. This liquid iron is in constant motion, continuously churning and circulating.
A new study provides a framework to boost crop growth by incorporating a strategy adopted from a fast-growing species of green algae.
The ongoing drought in the U.S. West is expected to persist through this summer, raising the risk of water shortages and wildfires.
Atmospheric researchers from the international CLOUD consortium have discovered a mechanism that allows nuclei for ice clouds to form and rapidly grow in the upper troposphere.
The yellow-billed hornbill, cousins of fan-favorite Zazu from The Lion King, faces local extinction due to the climate crisis.
