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US blocks India’s solar power plan
India has been told that it cannot go ahead as planned with its ambitious plan for a huge expansion of its renewable energy sector, because it seeks to provide work for Indian people. The case against India was brought by ...
Arctic soil frost affects greenhouse gas emissions
Soil frost is a nearly universal process in the Arctic. In a recent dissertation by doctoral student Marina Becher at Umeå University, it is shown that the frequency and extent of Arctic soil frost is important for the release of ...
Coral reefs continue to die until carbon output drops
Scientists have concluded for the last decade that more-acidic seas have been harming coral, making it more difficult for coral reefs to grow or regenerate themselves. Conducting an experiment over the course of 22 days, scientists flooded Australia’s Great Barrier ...
Ice in a planetary cauldron
With temperatures in excess of 800 F, Mercury is one of the last places in the solar system you’d expect to find ice. But when NASA’s Messenger spacecraft transmitted its first optical images of the closest planets to the sun, ...
Plastic trash transforms the Pacific
The amount of plastic garbage in the North Pacific Ocean has risen a hundredfold since the 1970s, and the floating debris is now so abundant that marine life is adapting to its presence. Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...
Antarctica’s Subterranean Ecosystem
Antarctica's Subterranean Ecosystem is quite interesting. In Antarctica researchers have found an undersea ecosystem under an iceberg that broke away from the Antarctic Peninsula. They say that Antarctica's Subterranean Ecosystem has been hidden for over 120 thousand years. As the ...
The Hungry Planet
More than 850 million people around the world—one in nearly seven—don't have enough to eat. Although current global food production is sufficient to feed everyone, the number eating less than the minimum the human body needs—an average 2,100 calories a ...
Record-Breaking Heatwave Causes Intense Arctic wildfires
More than 100 intense Arctic wildfires have ravaged the Arctic since June, with scientists describing them as "unprecedented." Satellite images show huge clouds of smoke billowing across uninhabited Arctic land in Greenland, Siberia and parts of Alaska. The wildfires come ...
Grasses’ growing role for American cars
Second-generation biofuel made from natural grass species challenges ethanol derived from maize crops as the US seeks to reduce its fossil fuel use. LONDON, January, 2016 – In tomorrow’s world, it won’t be just the corn on the great American ...
2021 Solar Eclipse from Union Glacier, Antarctica
2021 Solar eclipse from Union Glacier, Antarctica (Dec. 4, 2021) In Antarctica, a solar eclipse with almost two minutes of totality took place on Dec 4th, 2021. NASA broadcasted the event from Antarctica. Thus, the best views were from there ...
