Software to help towns and cities use street-planting to reduce citizens’ exposure to air pollution has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham.
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What Kind of Sea Ice Is That? Ask Knut!
A new app under development is using deep learning and artificial intelligence to classify different kinds of sea ice.
New Satellite Data Techniques Reveal Coastal Sea-Level Rise
For the hundreds of millions of people living in coastal regions around the world, rising seas driven by climate change pose a direct threat.
Once a Rich Desert River, the Gila Struggles to Keep Flowing
The confluence of the tiny San Pedro River and the much larger Gila was once one of the richest locales in one of the most productive river ecosystems in the American Southwest, an incomparable oasis of biodiversity.
Fires Scorch the Sakha Republic
Large, smoky fires are raging through forests in northeastern Russia.
Climate Changed the Size of Our Bodies and, To Some Extent, Our Brains
The average body size of humans has fluctuated significantly over the last million years and is strongly linked to temperature.


