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Technology: UNM Researchers Find Bitcoin Mining Is Environmentally Unsustainable
Taken as a share of the market price, the climate change impacts of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin is more comparable to the impacts of extracting and refining crude oil than mining gold, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports by researchers at The University of New Mexico.
Land Use: Greater Differentiation in Evaluating Climate Protection Measures
LMU researchers have developed a new method that makes it possible to assess the direct effects of human land use on the carbon cycle from Earth observation data.
Study Identifies Hundreds of Hospitals on Atlantic and Gulf Coasts at Risk of Flooding From Hurricanes
The first study to systematically investigate flooding risk to hospitals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from Category 1-4 storms finds that even relatively weak storms pose a serious flood risk to hospitals along the coast.
Scientists Improve Process for Turning Hard-to-Recycle Plastic Waste into Fuel
Turning plastic waste into useful products through chemical recycling is one strategy for addressing Earth's growing plastic pollution problem.
Study Will Predict Fate of Western Atlantic Mollusks by Scouring Ancient Fossil Record
Generations from now, will people still jam into beachside food stands for clam rolls and splurge on trays of oysters at swanky restaurants — or will clams, oysters and many other mollusk species soon become victims of human-driven climate change?
