Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out. Best estimates to date suggest …
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Firefighters light and carefully monitor prescribed burns with the aim of preventing large wildfires. But climate change may narrow the window of opportunity for these prevention efforts, according to a …
An August wildfire cut off electricity to Del Norte County, California. Residents might have been in the dark for weeks—except for the use of a makeshift microgrid that generated power …
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Earth’s Future The agro-enviromental dimension of nitrogen and phosphorus has been heavily studied from the plot to global …
Plastic pollution is a gigantic global problem. The equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks of plastic are dumped every day into the world’s waterways. Around 19 to 23 million tons of …