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Environmental Science: is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical, biological and information sciences to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems. Environmental science emerged from the fields of natural history and medicine during the Enlightenment.
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NOV 18, 2019Earth & The Environment
It might cause us to laugh, but this news isn’t funny: nitrous oxide emissions are on the rise. As a potent greenh ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 18, 2019Microbiology
Even closely related bats may not have similar gut microbes, and these unusual mammals may not have the same relationshi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 13, 2019Microbiology
Sea ice in the Arctic melts every summer and refreezes in the winter, but the melting has been outpacing the refreezing ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 13, 2019Earth & The Environment
Have you ever tried to take photographs underwater, only to be sorely disappointed by the results? Pictures of vivid und ...Written By: Tiffany DazetNOV 12, 2019Earth & The Environment
In one of the last remote regions of the world, the Chinese Government is pushing back against development and towards i ...Written By: Tiffany DazetNOV 12, 2019Earth & The Environment
If it seems like hurricanes have become more destructive in recent years, it’s because they have. Thanks to a new ...Written By: Tiffany DazetNOV 11, 2019Earth & The Environment
We know that invasive species cause myriad problems in ecosystems including predator-prey relations, pest management, ha ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 09, 2019Earth & The Environment
It must not come as a surprise that indigenous peoples’ connections to Mother Earth often translate into a type of ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 08, 2019Earth & The Environment
One of the most remarkable capabilities of living things is phototropism—in which living organisms track and move ...Written By: Tiffany DazetNOV 06, 2019Earth & The Environment
A worldwide coalition of more than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries warns "clearly and unequivocally that plane ...Written By: Tiffany DazetNOV 05, 2019Plants & Animals
If you were asked what the world’s most trafficked animal was, what would you say? If you answered pangolin, then ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 03, 2019Plants & Animals
Antarctic albatrosses are one of the world’s most distinguishable seabirds, and if you didn’t already know, ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 03, 2019Plants & Animals
Animals can be tricky to understand because they can’t speak to us in a form of communication that we can easily c ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 31, 2019Earth & The Environment
New research suggests harnessing fungi to help improve agricultural efficiency for cereal crops, saying fungi can improv ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 29, 2019Earth & The Environment
The estimate of people at risk from coastal flooding due to climate-change-related sea level rise has tripled, thanks to ...Written By: Tiffany DazetOCT 29, 2019Health & Medicine
If you need yet another reason to improve your diet, scientists have discovered that a majority of healthy foods also ha ...Written By: Tiffany DazetOCT 28, 2019Earth & The Environment
Based on parameters set by the Australian and Queensland Governments, a significant pesticide reduction target for water ...Written By: Tiffany DazetOCT 27, 2019Plants & Animals
It’s no secret that whaling is frowned upon both by conservationists and the law, but there was once a time in the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 23, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health have reported that repurposing exis ...Written By: Nouran AminOCT 23, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Spadefoot toads are known to be shape-shifters; they can rapidly change their behavior and physiology to adapt to enviro ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 22, 2019Microbiology
An international team of researchers has learned more about how a stingless bee relies on several different fungi to sur ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 21, 2019Earth & The Environment
Are you wondering what winter will look like in your region? Depending on where you live, you may be in for a mild seaso ...Written By: Tiffany DazetOCT 21, 2019Earth & The Environment
Although other crises may be dominating international news headlines, the Amazon rainforest is still burning. The Wall S ...Written By: Tiffany DazetOCT 20, 2019Microbiology
After observing unusual microorganisms that had been collected in Curaçao, researchers saw a strange thing.Written By: Carmen Leitch
NOV 18, 2019
Earth & The Environment
It might cause us to laugh, but this news isn’t funny: nitrous oxide emissions are on the rise. As a potent greenh
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 18, 2019
Microbiology
Even closely related bats may not have similar gut microbes, and these unusual mammals may not have the same relationshi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 13, 2019
Microbiology
Sea ice in the Arctic melts every summer and refreezes in the winter, but the melting has been outpacing the refreezing
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 13, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Have you ever tried to take photographs underwater, only to be sorely disappointed by the results? Pictures of vivid und
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
NOV 12, 2019
Earth & The Environment
In one of the last remote regions of the world, the Chinese Government is pushing back against development and towards i
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
NOV 12, 2019
Earth & The Environment
If it seems like hurricanes have become more destructive in recent years, it’s because they have. Thanks to a new
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
NOV 11, 2019
Earth & The Environment
We know that invasive species cause myriad problems in ecosystems including predator-prey relations, pest management, ha
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 09, 2019
Earth & The Environment
It must not come as a surprise that indigenous peoples’ connections to Mother Earth often translate into a type of
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 08, 2019
Earth & The Environment
One of the most remarkable capabilities of living things is phototropism—in which living organisms track and move
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
NOV 06, 2019
Earth & The Environment
A worldwide coalition of more than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries warns "clearly and unequivocally that plane
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
NOV 05, 2019
Plants & Animals
If you were asked what the world’s most trafficked animal was, what would you say? If you answered pangolin, then
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 03, 2019
Plants & Animals
Antarctic albatrosses are one of the world’s most distinguishable seabirds, and if you didn’t already know,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 03, 2019
Plants & Animals
Animals can be tricky to understand because they can’t speak to us in a form of communication that we can easily c
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 31, 2019
Earth & The Environment
New research suggests harnessing fungi to help improve agricultural efficiency for cereal crops, saying fungi can improv
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 29, 2019
Earth & The Environment
The estimate of people at risk from coastal flooding due to climate-change-related sea level rise has tripled, thanks to
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
OCT 29, 2019
Health & Medicine
If you need yet another reason to improve your diet, scientists have discovered that a majority of healthy foods also ha
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
OCT 28, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Based on parameters set by the Australian and Queensland Governments, a significant pesticide reduction target for water
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
OCT 27, 2019
Plants & Animals
It’s no secret that whaling is frowned upon both by conservationists and the law, but there was once a time in the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 23, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health have reported that repurposing exis
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
OCT 23, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Spadefoot toads are known to be shape-shifters; they can rapidly change their behavior and physiology to adapt to enviro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 22, 2019
Microbiology
An international team of researchers has learned more about how a stingless bee relies on several different fungi to sur
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 21, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Are you wondering what winter will look like in your region? Depending on where you live, you may be in for a mild seaso
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
OCT 21, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Although other crises may be dominating international news headlines, the Amazon rainforest is still burning. The Wall S
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
OCT 20, 2019
Microbiology
After observing unusual microorganisms that had been collected in Curaçao, researchers saw a strange thing.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch