Measurements from the past 27 years show that nature's ecosystem services and good biodiversity remove CO2 from the atmosphere, thus reducing the effect of carbon emissions. However, it is also clear that ecosystem services ...
Ecology
Nov 24, 2023
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At less than one millimeter thick, the ocean skin—the ocean's uppermost layer—plays an outsized role in marine processes, orchestrating heat and chemical exchange between the sea and sky via diffusion. The water of the ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2023
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Microbes play important roles in ecosystems, and these roles are changing with global warming. Scientists also now know that most types of microbes are infected by viruses, but they know relatively little about how these ...
Ecology
May 8, 2023
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A combined team of environmental scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Irvine, has found that increases in the frequency of severe wildfires in California has been reducing the ability of forests ...
A pilot project has estimated emissions and removals of carbon dioxide in individual nations using satellite measurements.
Earth Sciences
Mar 7, 2023
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North Carolina State University researchers have used satellite imagery and field sensors to estimate worldwide changes in plant leaf growth due to global warming. The researchers found that changes in "greening," or the ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 2, 2023
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Using commercial, high-resolution satellite images and artificial intelligence, an international team including NASA scientists mapped almost 10 billion individual trees in Africa's drylands in order to assess the amount ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 1, 2023
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Carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the major greenhouse gases, doesn't distribute evenly around the globe. Spatial variation of CO2 regulates the climate system and carbon cycle through a physiological effect and radiative forcing.
Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2022
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Plants allocate large amounts of photosynthetic carbon metabolites to roots and soil and thereby rely on the root-soil-microbe interactions to acquire soil nutrients such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) for aboveground ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2022
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A team of scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a theory that thylakoids, membrane networks key to plant photosynthesis, also function as a defense mechanism to harsh growing conditions, which could ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2022
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