Environment
Ahuachapán and its restive neighbors
From a geothermal hotspot to the one-time “Lighthouse of the Pacific,” the heat is on beneath the volcanic landscape of western El Salvador.This post was originally published on this site.
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Environment
New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources
Heavy rains causing repeated river flood intrusions into Florida’s freshwater springs are changing the function of the clear natural resource. Findings from University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) researchers Paul Donsky […]
Environment
Cities in Nepal, Ethiopia and Malawi get tailored guidance to cut air pollution and cool overheating streets
Air pollution is estimated to cause around 48,881 adult deaths a year in Nepal and more than 25,000 deaths in Ethiopia, alongside significant health harm across Malawi’s fast-growing cities. To combat this, researchers from the […]
Environment
Colored microplastics could be making global warming worse
There’s more bad news about microplastics. We already know they pose a risk to health and can pollute ecosystems, but now researchers have discovered that tiny plastic particles drifting in Earth’s atmosphere could be a […]
Environment
Packed together, they melt differently: What happens when one iceberg enters another’s icy wake
Earth’s ice is melting. As icebergs break away from glaciers and melt away, the fresh meltwater mixes into its saltwater surroundings. However, icebergs do not exist in isolation. In Greenland, for example, jammed collections of […]
Environment
Identifying severe weather hazards further in the future with AI
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool built by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) can help forecasters look further into the future as they work to identify the potential for […]
Environment
Masculine behavior bad for the planet says new research
Major new research on climate change, global warming and environmental collapse, how they connect with what men do, and what to do about it has just been published by a team including the University of […]
Environment
Physics-based weather models more accurate than AI at predicting extreme weather
Weather forecasting is another aspect of modern life that artificial intelligence is transforming. Models like GraphCast, Pangu-Weather, and Fuxi are already better than traditional physics-based climate models at predicting some daily weather conditions. However, they […]
Environment
Saudi Arabia’s water problem has a surprising solution: Its own wastewater
More than two-thirds of Saudi Arabia’s irrigation water and a third of the country’s drinking water comes from groundwater, yet aquifers are being depleted faster than they recharge. At the same time, sewage treatment generates […]
Farming and Agriculture
Seaweed integration boosts efficiency and cuts waste in aquaculture, study finds
A new study found that cultivating seaweed species alongside marine finfish in integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) operations, where seaweeds receive nutrient-rich effluent from fish production, can significantly reduce—and even eliminate—key waste products from marine finfish […]