A recent review study led by The University of Texas at Austin provides an overview of the planet’s freshwater supplies and strategies for sustainably managing them.
UT Austin Leads Review of World Water Resources
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New Research Shows Recovering Tropical Forests Offset Just One Quarter of Carbon Emissions From New Tropical Deforestation and Forest Degradation
A pioneering global study has found deforestation and forests lost or damaged due to human and environmental change, such as fire and logging, are fast outstripping current rates of forest regrowth.
When Someone Sneezes on Everest, Their Germs Can Last for Centuries
Almost five miles above sea level in the Himalayan mountains, the rocky dip between Mount Everest and its sister peak, Lhotse, lies windswept, free of snow.
NASA’s Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-Ray Sky in New Animation
Cosmic fireworks, invisible to our eyes, fill the night sky. We can get a glimpse of this elusive light show thanks to the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which observes the sky in gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light.
New Study Finds Early Warning Signs Prior to 2002 Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse
In 2002, an area of ice about the size of Rhode Island dramatically broke away from Antarctica as the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed.
Minimizing Electric Vehicles’ Impact on the Grid
National and global plans to combat climate change include increasing the electrification of vehicles and the percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources.
