The Polar regions play a crucial role in balancing global climate – with the poles heating up much faster than the rest of the world.
New International Project Explores Future Climates of Polar Regions
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Social Distancing: Not Just for Humans
Coughs and colds spread quickly within wild mountain gorilla groups but appear less likely to spread between neighboring groups, a new study published in Scientific Reports shows.
A Multi-Dimensional Fire Challenge
Accumulating fuels and rising populations are contributing to California’s large, destructive fires.
Birds Learn to Avoid Plants That Host Dangerous Insects, Researchers Have Found
Young birds that eat insects with conspicuous warning colouration to advertise their toxicity to would-be predators quickly learn to avoid other prey that carry the same markings.
NASA Smoke Signals for Air Quality
The U.S. Forest Service now has a powerful way to view near-real time fire detection from NASA satellite data that they can include in their hourly air quality forecasts.
Drinking Our Way to Sustainability, One Cup of Coffee at a Time
Coffee, that savior of the underslept, comes with enormous environmental and social costs, from the loss of forest habitats as woodlands are converted to crops, to the economic precarity of small-scale farmers whose livelihoods depend on the whims of international markets.
