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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Cities were more likely to focus on aesthetically “green” policies, like tree-planting, over “gray” policies, like denser development and affordable housing, that might do more to address equity issues in some cities and could help to reduce emissions from transportation.
10-year study on reclaimed mine emphasizes ability to persist in poor soil
The highest glacier on the tallest mountain on Earth is rapidly retreating as temperatures rise, according to new research that underscores the scale and reach of human-caused climate change.
Even the finest particles of pollution influence the process of cloud formation and the rainfall regime. A study conducted in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state in Brazil’s North region, shows that oxidation leads small aerosols expelled by factories and car exhausts, for example, to grow very rapidly, reaching up to 400 times their original size, and that this affects raindrop formation.
Wetland plants have a high tolerance against flooding due to the formation of "lysigenous aerenchyma," air channels that help transfer gases to the submerged roots.
Brianna Rick, a doctoral student in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University, has been conducting research in Alaska for several years.
