It’s an image that still stands out in Kathryn Bender’s mind: A shopper walking out of a store with four bags of groceries, dropping one of them, and just leaving it there in the parking lot.
Grim News on Food Waste
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Crop Shocks
As the world faces more climate variability and extremes in the face of global warming, sudden environmental changes add an extra layer of stress to food production in the United States and around the world.
Massive Underwater Plateau Near Solomon Islands is Younger and its Eruption Was More Protracted Than Previously Thought, Research Suggests
The Ontong Java Plateau, a volcanically-formed underwater plateau located in the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands, is younger and its eruption was more protracted than previously thought, new research led by Oregon State University suggests.
How Will a Warming World Impact the Earth’s Ability to Offset Our Carbon Emissions?
As the world heats up due to climate change, how much can we continue to depend on plants and soils to help alleviate some of our self-inflicted damage by removing carbon pollution from the atmosphere?
A Marine Mystery: Finding the Link Between Climate Change and Sea Sponge Loss
Sea sponges are essential to marine ecosystems.
We’ve Pumped So Much Groundwater That We’ve Nudged the Earth’s Spin
By pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east between 1993 and 2010 alone, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, AGU’s journal for short-format, high-impact research with implications spanning the Earth and space sciences.
