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A study published Oct. 7, 2026, in Communications Earth & Environment estimates that ozone made by Amazon fires costs the forest extra carbon equal to about a quarter of what the fires emit directly.…
Mowing a solar farm is a stubborn expense. Grass and brush grow up between the panel rows, they shade the cells, and somebody has to keep cutting them. So solar operators have increasingly swapped…
Researchers at Nankai University paired three carbon additives with three industrial pollutants in bench-scale bioreactors run under an applied electric current, and pollutant removal differed by up…
Researchers at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) report that a microplastic toxicity test understates the hazard by about a factor of two when it counts the dose…
Jay R. Rooker of Texas A&M University and colleagues have measured plastic particles in the muscle of dolphinfish and yellowfin tuna caught across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Muscle is…
Europe's continental shelf already breathes in two ways, and the dividing line sits near 60 degrees north. South of it, temperature sets the rhythm: cold winter water dissolves carbon dioxide easily…
A drone carrying a cyclone air sampler collected microplastics 80 to 100 meters above the ground at two sites in Colorado, researchers reported Oct. 6, 2026, in Scientific Reports. The authors…
Diatoms grown for more than 1,000 generations in acidified seawater grew faster and fixed more carbon than lines kept at today's carbon dioxide level, but carried less phosphorus in their cells where…
Emissions of airborne chemicals from subarctic birch trees rose year after year as moth feeding built toward an outbreak, and the mixture of compounds the trees gave off changed with it. Jolanta…
Catches of Japanese flying squid (Todarodes pacificus) in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, have collapsed, and a study of observations from 1993 to 2025 attributes the loss to three…
Lock up a restaurant kitchen at midnight and most of it goes quiet. The burners are off. The fryers are cold. The hoods above the line stop pulling air. What does not stop is the row of small blue…
Every day, we encounter the electrostatic properties of plastics, often without giving them much thought. Synthetic fabrics cling to one another, dust is readily drawn to plastic surfaces, and in…