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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
A Michigan State University- and University of Maryland-led study featured on the cover of this week’s Science magazine should sound alarm bells regarding the “biodiversity crisis” or the loss of wildlife around the world.
The long-term trend of above-average temperatures continues.
Current carbon cycle models may underestimate the amount of carbon dioxide released from the soil during rainy seasons in temperate forests like those found in the northeast United States, according to Penn State researchers.
Scientists use planes equipped with special instrumentation to detect methane hotspots in areas where ground-based observations are difficult or impossible to measure.
Louisiana is losing coastal wetlands at an average rate of a football field every hour.
Crops need water. And in the central United States, the increasing scarcity of water resources is becoming a threat to the nation’s food production.
