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Carbon sequestration, climate regulation, biodiversity support and shoreline protection: These are all benefits provided by tidal wetlands. As the climate changes, the amount of carbon captured by these vital ecosystems may be changing as well.
A single gram of soil contains between 10 million and 1 billion viruses. Most of those viruses do not infect plants, animals or people, but they do target bacteria and other microbes. Because of their influence on microbial communities, viruses can affect nutrient cycling and soil health. Understanding how they behave is therefore crucial to supporting agriculture, food production and water quality.
The shiny objects—each roughly twice the size of a basketball—began to appear on July 3. Authorities initially worried that they were hazardous but have since determined that they're likely safe bits of space junk
A new study found that enormous dipterocarp trees have special adaptations to transport water up to their highest limbs, challenging the assumption that they would more easily succumb to dry conditions
Artist Lucy Sparrow Opens a “Supermarket” in a Museum With 20,000 Hand-Felted Grocery Items British artist Lucy Sparrow has built entire shops out of felt for more than a decade. S. museum exhibition.
The London-based artist's monochrome compositions evoke wonder, mischief, and riddles.
Happy Eco News Why Energy Optimization Is Becoming One of the Most Effective Sustainability Strategies for Businesses Why Energy Optimization Is Becoming One of the Most Effective Sustainability Strategies for Businesses For many organizations, sustainability efforts have traditionally focused on visible initiatives such as installing solar panels, electrifying vehicle fleets, reducing paper consumption, or investing in carbon offsets. While each of these measures has an important role to play, one of the
This Site Lets You Pretend To Order Food To Get That Dopamine Hit Without Spending Money If you’ve ever filled up an online shopping cart or started a food order and found a little pleasure in that, only to close the tab without completing the purchase, you’re not alone.
70 Artists Transform Multiple Rooms at a Former LA Hospital Into a Celebration of Human Emotion Hospitals are often seen as cold, clinical places, but in reality, they’re filled with moments of joy, fear, hope, grief, and love. Hospital of Emotions, a large-scale, site-specific exhibition at the historic St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles, completely reimagines what a hospital can be.
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At Morningside Park in Miami, a new installation is testing a simple but urgent idea: What if a seawall could help heal the bay? Researchers at the Institute of Environment recently installed a series of 3D-printed seawall tiles designed and developed at FIU's Robotics and Digital Fabrication Lab.
As America celebrated its 250th Birthday, Kelsey Pflendler celebrated her own significant milestone—becoming the first American woman to row a boat from California to Hawaii alone. As she pulled into Ala Wai Boat Harbor in Honolulu, she also set records for being the fastest to complete to solo row among either sex, and the youngest
Among the rolling hills of Uganda’s Masaka region, robusta coffee plants are producing larger, tastier yields thanks to a pilot program utilizing regenerative agriculture to battle droughts or erratic rainfall. A catch-all term for a variety of growing techniques as simple as mulching to as complex as cover cropping, regenerative agriculture is especially useful in
Learn How To Draw Anything Using 3 Simple Shapes Beginning to draw requires no special knowledge. You just need to know how to sketch three shapes you learned in elementary school: circles, rectangles, and triangles. From there, you can build on that basic geometry and create compositions that look nothing like the shapes you started with.
Happy Eco News Replacing Antibiotics with Grape Pomace in Poultry Could Turn Wine Waste into a Farming Solution Cornell University researchers suggest that replacing antibiotics with grape pomace in poultry could reduce agricultural waste, lower antibiotic use, and support more sustainable food production.
In the US, refugees are being hired to make candles, helping them earn money, practise English and build a CV
Happy Eco News Seabed Recovery after Bottom Trawling Bans Shows Nature’s Resilience Evidence of seabed recovery after bottom trawling bans from Scotland and the UK shows marine life can triple in protected zones, offering a clear, science-backed path to restoring ocean health and biodiversity.
36 years ago today, The Three Tenors performed live for the first time at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. The recording made from the show became the best-selling classical album of all time, while an astonishing 800 million people around the world watched the live broadcast. It was on the eve of the 1990
Researchers at University of Tsukuba analyzed high-resolution topographic data from airborne LiDAR to examine the relationships among landslide area, depth, and slope gradient.
A comprehensive global review has found that mRNA vaccines aren't just highly effective at fighting infectious diseases – they are also very safe.
There could be fewer leopards living across sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed, according to a new study that has analyzed suitable habitat and conditions. It is hoped that the research, led by conservation scientists at Nottingham Trent University, could be used to help plan vital recovery efforts and focus conservation where it is most needed.
As the UK prepares for the third heat wave of 2026, most people will be hoping to keep cool at home. Building regulations to protect homes from overheating were introduced in 2022. These require all new homes to be checked at the design stage to see if they might be at risk of overheating. If the overheating risk is high, the architect has to make changes to the design.
769 photographers and astronomers submitted more than 4,000 images to this year's competition.
Every year, thousands of parrots confiscated from the illegal wildlife trade arrive at rehabilitation centers across Latin America. For many of these birds, rescue centers can provide safety but not necessarily a path back to the wild.