Environment

Forests play an important role in trapping and storing carbon from the Earth’s atmosphere, but some models overestimate their carbon removal capacity by nearly threefold,…

Understanding cloud patterns in our changing climate is critical for developing accurate predictions about the impact on society and wildlife. Scientists from the Institute of…

An atmospheric river (AR) is a tiny channel or filament of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere. It is a long, narrow stream of moisture in…

Citizen science can contribute to better conservation and management plans for Mediterranean marine ecosystems, as well as mitigating the effects of the environmental crisis. This…

Arctic haze is the visible reddish-brown springtime haze in the atmosphere at high latitudes in the Arctic caused by anthropogenic air pollution. It refers to…

Cyanotoxins are poisons produced by cyanobacteria (sometimes called blue-green algae). These poisons may be detrimental to humans, animals, and aquatic environments. These are frequently found…

Simulations use historical records, fossils, and ancient DNA to explain why the European bison nearly went extinct and to identify appropriate conservation sites.   Since the…

Air stagnation is a meteorological phenomena in which air flow in a certain area becomes limited or static. It is a meteorological situation in which…

Ozone depletion is the thinning of the ozone layer in the Earth’s stratosphere. It consists of two connected processes seen since the late 1970s: a…

Researchers discovered remarkably identical patterns of tree diversity throughout the world’s tropical woods. A survey of over one million trees in 1,568 places discovered that…

Phytoplankton are microscopic organisms that live in the upper layers of oceans, seas, and lakes of freshwater. These are the plankton’s autotrophic (self-feeding) components, and…

Ectosymbiosis is a type of symbiotic behavior in which one organism lives on the body surface of another (the host), including internal surfaces like the…