Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mature forests have a key role to play in the fight against climate change—extracting carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere and locking it into new wood, a new study reveals. Researchers discovered that older trees responded to increased atmospheric levels of CO 2 […] Click here to view original […]

Jack Grindley stands against a flood depth indicator in his East Haven neighborhood, which was decimated by tropical systems Irene and Sandy in addition to ongoing climate change-induced flooding. "I’ve accepted that this neighborhood will not exist probably in the near future," Grindley said. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT […] Click here to view original

The Chalkhill Blue, one of the UK’s most beautiful butterflies, has declined in numbers. Project to study all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths finds ‘two species in the act of being created from one’ The chalkhill blue has some surprising claims to fame. For a start, it is […] Click here to view original

© Fieldwork gas sampling | Foto: Soren Brothers Desiccating salt lakes are an underappreciated source of greenhouse gases that could become even more relevant as a result of climate change. Newly announced research by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in the USA in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute of […] Click here to view original

Enlarge / Sustainable aviation fuels could help cut carbon emissions from commercial flights. Last November, Virgin Atlantic Airways made headlines for completing the world’s first transatlantic flight using “ 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel .” This week, the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA) of the U.K. banned a Virgin radio […] Click here to view original

The microscopic Naegleria fowleri enters the body via water up the nose, and causes massive destruction of brain tissue (Image credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images) By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK in under the radar "Brain-eating" amoebas kill nearly almost all of their victims, and a […] Click here to view original