While the trees to absorb CO2, they were unable to hold onto the CO2 through sequestration. Research has shown that restoring forests by an area the size of the United States could cut carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by a…
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the U.S. portion of these missions for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Since the Industrial Revolution, widespread fossil fuel usage has rocketed by a third. That’s because warm water gets warmer, it expands.…
Millions of tonnes of plastic have been found in every single species of turtle in a new study spanning the world’s oceans. In 2010, 270 million tonnes of plastic waste; 99.5 million tonnes of which was produced by the two…
The researchers identified 195,728 virus species parsed into five global regions that are home to distinct viral communities. Having the global map of virus locations could help scientists know where carbon fallout occurs and increase the accuracy of climate simulations.…
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering its worst coral bleaching in recorded history with 93 percent of the World Heritage site affected, scientists said Wednesday, as they revealed the phenomenon is also hitting the other side of the country. A…
The Great Barrier Reef stretches for over a thousand miles along Australia’s northeastern coast. “The idea here is to use an automated technique that allows us to target delivery of the larvae into damaged reef systems and increase the efficiency…