A group of international scientists and practitioners including University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher Jay Famiglietti say we are not doing enough to protect and manage global groundwater resources.
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Climate Change Is Making Specific Weather Events More Extreme
A drought that parched the southwestern U.S. Extraordinary flooding in the Mid-Atlantic states.
Astronomy Picture of the Day - N63A: Supernova Remnant in Visible and X-ray
What has this supernova left behind? As little as 2,000 years ago, light from a massive stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) first reached planet Earth.
Tree Cavities for Wild Honeybees
The forests in Europe provide habitat for around 80,000 colonies of wild honeybees.
Trashed Farmland Could Be a Conservation Treasure
Low-productivity agricultural land could be transformed into millions of hectares of conservation reserves across the world, according to University of Queensland-led research.
Sorghum Study Illuminates Relationship Between Humans, Crops and the Environment in Domestication
A new study that examines the genetics behind the bitter taste of some sorghum plants and one of Africa’s most reviled bird species illustrates how human genetics, crops and the environment influence one another in the process of plant domestication.