To meet an ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045, California’s policymakers are relying in part on forests and shrublands to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, but researchers at the University of California, Irvine warn that future climate change may limit the ecosystem’s ability to perform this service.
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Phase I Trial Begins of New Vaccine Against the Plague
Researchers at the University of Oxford today launched a Phase 1 trial to test a new vaccine against plague.
Beauty in the Barents
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Scientists Model ‘True Prevalence’ of COVID-19 Throughout Pandemic
Government officials and policymakers have tried to use numbers to grasp COVID-19’s impact.
What Happens to Marine Life When Oxygen Is Scarce?
At a local scale, hypoxic events may pose a more severe threat to coral reefs than the warming events that cause mass bleaching.
Can Retrofitting Dams for Hydro Provide a Green Energy Boost?
In 1969, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finished construction of the Red Rock Dam on the Des Moines River in Marion County, Iowa.