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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Shortly before Jakobshavn Isbræ, a tidewater glacier in Greenland, calves massive chunks of ice into the ocean, there’s a sudden change in the slushy collection of icebergs floating along the glacier’s terminus, according to a new CIRES-led paper.
The farming of livestock to feed the global appetite for animal products greatly contributes to global warming.
Thermoelectric power generators that make electrical power from waste heat would be a useful tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if it weren’t for a most vexing problem: the need to make electrical contacts to their hot side, which is often just too hot for materials that can generate a current.
A new fungus strain could provide a chemical-free method for eradicating mites that kill honey bees, according to a study published this month in Scientific Reports.
Scientists have got up close and personal with human sewage to determine how best to measure hidden and potentially dangerous plastics.
As the Clean Energy Transformation Act drives Washington state toward carbon-free electricity, a new energy landscape is taking shape.
