Category: Environment

Giant viruses were nearly three times more abundant in southern European lakes, study finds

A Nature Communications study of 87 European lakes recovered 208 giant-virus genomes, including 205 putative...

New electric cars are projected to match conventional lifespans while producing less than half the lifecycle emissions

Real-world British vehicle data suggest battery-electric cars purchased in 2026 could match conventional vehicles in...

People who reported more climate misinformation saw climate change as further away, eight-country study finds

A survey of 8,254 people across eight countries found that greater reported exposure to climate...

South African shoppers were far more likely to buy a plastic bag when the cashier offered one

A study of shoppers in South Africa, Norway and Germany found that plastic bag use...

A robot reached the face of a Greenland glacier and found an unexpected hotspot of life

Researchers sent an underwater robot directly to the dangerous boundary where a Greenland glacier meets...

Air pollution is making plants less efficient with water, global study finds

Fine-particle air pollution is making vegetation less efficient at using water, a new global study...

A Restored Wetland Stored More Carbon Than Standard Estimates Suggested

Researchers analysing almost 4,000 sediment samples found that a restored tidal wetland accumulated substantial carbon...

Butterflies Are Redrawing Their Map of the World

A global analysis of 1,758 butterfly species shows that their ranges are shifting across the...

Diverse Grasslands May Hold Up Better When Drought Gets Extreme

A global analysis of 75 biodiversity experiments found that plant diversity provided its strongest productivity...

Western Cape Leopards Are Widespread But the Landscape Between Them Is Hard to Cross

Leopards remain widely distributed across the Western Cape, but new mapping shows that fragmented landscapes...

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