The world’s tropical forests are losing their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – a development that could have serious implications on efforts to forestall climate change.
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NOAA's DSCOVR Satellite is Operating Again
NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite, which had been offline for about nine months due to a technical glitch, is fully operational again, agency experts said today.
Flower Faithful Native Bee Makes A Reliable Pollinator
Entomologists at UC Riverside have documented that a species of native sweat bee widespread throughout North and South America has a daily routine that makes it a promising pollinator.
Launch Forth
Engineering students at Memorial are designing and building Newfoundland and Labrador’s first Earth observation satellite.
Tropical Forests’ Carbon Sink 'Already Rapidly Weakening'
The ability of the world’s tropical forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere is decreasing, according to a study tracking 300,000 trees over 30 years, published today in Nature.
Shared Vision - Portal To The Sea
During the past decade, the Marine Institute (MI) built an ocean technology hub for Atlantic Canada.