(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Cyclone Veronica continued to move toward Australia's Pilbara Coast in Western Australia. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided visible and infrared images of the storm that indicated heavy rainfall.
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Declining solar costs have helped spur a move away from coal-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
(University of Göttingen) More and more products carry ethical labels such as fair-trade or organic, which consumers view positively. Nevertheless, the sales figures of these products often remain low, even though they offer advantages for the environment or for society. A team of scientists from the University of Göttingen investigated what factors influence consumers' purchasing intentions. The results were published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, an international scientific publication which covers environmental and sustainable research and practice.
When it comes to climate change, reptiles and humans alike need a healthy and biologically diverse world to thrive-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
(University of East Anglia) New research suggests that targeted use of behavioural 'nudges' can encourage people to conserve water.Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) found that rather than giving people general information about the importance of saving water, emphasising the water conserving actions of others in the same social group -- for example university students or local residents -- encourages similar behaviour changes and reduces water demand.
(University of Washington) The first survey of methane vent sites off Washington's coast finds 1,778 bubble columns, with most located along a north-south band that is in line with a geologic fault.
Past disasters point to steps cities and counties can take to bolster their resilience-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Bramble Cay melomys, a tiny island rodent, was wiped out by sea-level rise, according to the government of Australia.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
It sounds crazy, but that is exactly what Trump's EPA is trying to do-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
(University of Plymouth) Remote communities in the Peruvian Andes, as well as communities downstream, depend on the water from melting glaciers and mountain ecosystems to provide them with food and power, and to support industry.
(Lehigh University) A Lehigh University team led by industrial and systems engineering professor Frank E. Curtis has won a $250,000 support grant from Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), as part of the agency's Grid Optimization (GO) Competition. The competition comprises a series of challenges meant to modernize energy grid software through the development of new algorithms. Teams will submit their code in April for the first of two trial events.
North America’s Great Basin is getting warmer, drier and saltier-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
(American Society of Agronomy) Irrigation water's E. coli results can differ between labs, test types.
(University of Guelph) The bird's trek between its breeding grounds in the central and western boreal forest of North America and its winter home in the Amazon Basin is one of the longest songbird migrations recorded.Describing a route arcing across North America and including a transoceanic flight to South America, the study confirms an epic migration journey that scientists had long suspected but not yet proved. Tracking their route is key to solving the birds' decline.
Rains and melting snow have caused rivers to breach levees from Minnesota to Missouri-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
New evidence suggests that corals once sought refuge from warming waters by migrating-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com