A team of Swiss and international climate scientists has shown that the risk of glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalayan region and the Tibetan plateau could triple in the coming decades.
Flooding Might Triple in the Mountains of Asia
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The bulging, equator-belted midsection of Earth currently teems with a greater diversity of life than anywhere else — a biodiversity that generally wanes when moving from the tropics to the mid-latitudes and the mid-latitudes to the poles.
Like a Trojan Horse, Graphene Oxide can Act as a Carrier of Organic Pollutants to Fish
A study by the UPV/EHU’s CBET research group and the University of Bordeaux has shown that graphene oxide nanomaterials, alone and combined with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pose a potential source of toxicity to fish, but at concentrations that are above the currently expected environmental levels.
Physicists Describe New Type of Aurora
For millennia, humans in the high latitudes have been enthralled by auroras—the northern and southern lights.
Large Bumblebees Start Work Earlier
University of Exeter scientists used RFID – similar technology to contactless card payments – to monitor when bumblebees of different sizes left and returned to their nest.
Ice Core Data Show Why, Despite Lower Sulfur Emissions in Us and Western Europe, Air Pollution Is
The air in the United States and Western Europe is much cleaner than even a decade ago.
