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Cut the pollution at its source and the water should clean itself up. That is the logic behind decades of farm-runoff policy: reduce the fertiliser, and the nitrate that fouls groundwater should…
We tend to picture plastic pollution as something that happens to the ocean: bottles on beaches, a gyre of debris in the Pacific. But some of it is going the other way, into the ground under our…
A team led from University College Dublin has sequenced 21 ancient genomes of sheeppox virus, a disease of sheep, several of them recovered from medieval parchment, the animal skin that manuscripts…
Capillaries in living tissue sit a fraction of a millimeter apart, and that spacing is why lab-grown beef has stayed flat. Muscle grown in a dish has no plumbing inside it and starves in the middle,…
Polyethylene microplastic buried in agricultural soil for 22 months lost 0.12% of its carbon to microbial breakdown, according to a paper published Sept. 1 in the journal Microplastics and…
Droughts that dry out every layer of the soil at once have grown longer and more frequent across more than half of the world's land since 1981, according to a study published Sept. 1 in Nature…
Ocean heat extremes and spells of unusually low ocean productivity each raise the odds of a very poor fishing year in a given place, and the odds rise furthest when the two arrive together, according…
A forest does not only take carbon in. On a warm afternoon it hands some straight back, as a thin chemical breath of isoprene, monoterpenes and heavier molecules, the family of compounds that gives a…
A study published on Aug. 29, 2026, in Communications Earth & Environment estimates how much carbon dioxide Mexico's groundwater use puts into the atmosphere, using satellite measurements of the…
A study published on Aug. 28, 2026, in Environmental Research Letters projects that heat stress on crops and farm workers leaves global economic output roughly 1% lower by 2100 under a…
Plant compounds promoted as a way to cut nitrous oxide emissions from farmland also suppressed the soil bacteria that consume methane, researchers at Kansas State University report in a study…
A study published Aug. 25 in Communications Earth & Environment attributes 40% to 64% of the climate-driven decline in western US water supply to emissions from 122 fossil fuel and cement producers,…