Algacir Schadeck snaps a fat ear of corn off a dry corn stalk in western Bahia, one of Brazil’s leading grain-producing regions.
Water War: Is Big Agriculture Killing Brazil’s Traditional Farms?
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Global Temperatures Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today's Warming 'Unprecedented'
A University of Arizona-led effort to reconstruct Earth's climate since the last ice age, about 24,000 years ago, highlights the main drivers of climate change and how far out of bounds human activity has pushed the climate system.
Satellites Pinpoint Communities at Risk of Permafrost Thaw
Thawing permafrost in the Arctic is already unleashing methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, exacerbating global temperature rise.
Back-To-Back Hurricanes Expected to Increase in the Gulf Coast
Over the past four decades, the time between tropical storms making landfall in the Gulf Coast has been getting shorter. By the end of the century, Louisiana and Florida could be twice as likely to experience two tropical storms that make landfall within nine days of each other, according to new model estimates.
An Extra Air Pollution Burden
New research shows that neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., with more people of color are exposed to more air pollution and have higher rates of disease.
Student’s Research Upends Understanding of Upper Atmospheric Wind
Space physicist Mark Conde had been seeing something curious in his atmospheric research data since the 1990s.
