Humans are artificially expanding cities’ coastlines by extending industrial ports and creating luxury residential waterfronts.
New Land Creation on Waterfronts Increasing, Study Finds
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Fighting Climate Change：Ruthenium Complexes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Valuable Chemicals
Climate change is a global environmental concern. A major contribution to climate change comes from excessive burning of fossil fuels.
Global Comparison Shows: Soil Transplantation Boosts Nature Restoration
A new study comparing 46 field experiments in 17 countries across four continents clearly spells it out: areas in need of nature restoration benefit from soil transplantation.
California Reservoirs Refilled by Winter Deluges, Satellite Images Show
In the wake of a series of destructive storms in late December and early January, California’s long-ailing mountain reservoirs have risen, satellite images from NASA show.
Researchers Build More Detailed Picture of the Movement of Greenland Ice Sheet
Researchers have found that the movement of glaciers in Greenland is more complex than previously thought, with deformation in regions of warmer ice containing small amounts of water accounting for motion that had often been assumed to be caused by sliding where the ice meets the bedrock beneath.
Asphalt Volcano Communities
Santa Barbara Channel’s natural oil seeps are a beach-goer’s bane, flecking the shores with blobs of tar. But the leaking petroleum also creates fascinating geologic and biologic features.
