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Hefei Botanical Garden, situated in East China's climate transition zone, houses over 5,000 plant species — including 200 rare and endangered ones — while restoring degraded wetlands and training thousands of environmental volunteers in a rapidly urbanizing region.
Read the release Hefei Botanical Garden has assembled more than 5,000 plant species, rescued 73 nationally protected trees from decline, and restored 200 hectares of degraded wetland, all while embedding itself in the rural economy around it.
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Researchers isolated a lactic acid bacterium from kimchi that clings to nanoplastics even in gut-like conditions, boosting fecal excretion of the particles more than twofold in germ-free mice. The finding hints at a biological route to clearing ingested plastic.
Read the releaseCute, green, and sporting two sprigs of hair on his head, a mischievous baby dinosaur named Dooly is one of the most beloved cartoon characters in South Korea. So, when researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the Korean Dinosaur Research Center discovered a new species of baby dinosaur from Korea’s Aphae Island, they knew exactly what to call it: Doolysaurus. “Dooly is one of the very famous, iconic dinosaur characters in Korea. Every generation in Korea knows this character,” said ...
Read the releaseLA JOLLA (March 19, 2026)—The United States and Mexico have been in a historic megadrought since the turn of the century. For more than 25 years, the American Southwest has faced the severe social and economic consequences of this megadrought—including a $1.1 billion agricultural loss in California in 2021 alone. With these conditions persisting, how can we help crops withstand drought while minimizing yield loss? Salk Institute scientists profiled nearly a million cells from the leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant that serves as a laboratory stand-in for important ...
Read the releaseUsing acoustically levitated silica grains, physicists at ISTA discovered that environmental carbon molecules on material surfaces determine the direction of charge transfer between identical insulators. The finding resolves a long-standing mystery and could reshape understanding of volcanic lightning and protoplanetary disk physics.
Read the releaseTwo Nature studies using multi-million-year-old Antarctic ice show that CO2 remained below 300 ppm over the past 3 million years, while ocean temperatures dropped 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius - raising new questions about what drove Earth's long-term cooling.
Read the releaseA cold freshwater layer beneath Antarctic sea ice had shielded it from warm deep water for decades. University of Gothenburg researchers show that layer thinned gradually, then collapsed during fierce 2015 storms, triggering rapid ice loss that persists today.
Read the releaseA comprehensive carbon budget from a Swiss stream corridor shows beaver-engineered wetlands accumulated 1,194 tonnes of carbon over 13 years - storing CO2 at rates up to ten times higher than comparable systems without beavers, while methane emissions accounted for less than 0.1% of the total budget.
Read the releaseResearchers at Xiamen University and Imperial College London developed a computational tool that predicts real supercapacitor device energy density from early material tests with less than 1% error, revealing a conversion factor of roughly 0.35 between material and device performance.
Read the releaseA severe U.S. drought in the late 1980s triggered a 42% drop in Gulf of Mexico fish biomass by cutting nutrient flow from the Mississippi River. Under high-emission scenarios, researchers project fisheries could decline over 70% by century's end.
Read the releaseA study of over 750 cactus species found that the rate of flower shape evolution, not flower size or pollinator specialization, predicts how quickly cacti split into new species. The finding challenges ideas dating back to Darwin.
Read the releaseInvestors in Germany's green bond market pay a measurable premium - about 4 basis points on average - for environmentally labeled debt. The gap widens after climate events and could save governments money if they issue more green bonds.
Read the releaseWayne State University received a $473,566 grant to study phosphorus removal at the Great Lakes Water Authority's wastewater facility serving 77 communities, aiming to reduce the nutrient runoff that fuels harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie and the Rouge River.
Read the releaseResearchers pinpointed that 60% of dengue cases in Peru's hardest-hit districts during the 2023 outbreak were caused by cyclone-driven extreme rainfall and heat, and climate modeling shows such conditions are now three times more likely than in pre-industrial times.
Read the releaseAnalysis of ancient bowhead whale bones spanning 11,000 years shows the species weathered every climate shift of the Holocene without losing genetic diversity - until commercial whaling from 1540 to 1931 stripped it away, with consequences that will compound for generations.
Read the releaseA systematic review in JMA Journal documents 68 cases of acute carbon monoxide poisoning from waterpipe smoking worldwide, finding that one-fifth occurred after less than an hour of use and another fifth happened outdoors - conditions most users consider safe.
Read the releaseAcoustic tagging of seven juvenile smalltooth sawfish in Florida's Indian River Lagoon shows strong site fidelity to a tiny stretch of the Saint Lucie River, with residency rates up to 87% - providing the first evidence that this historically important nursery is functioning again for an endangered species.
Read the releaseColorado State University plant pathologists identified four Fusarium species responsible for potato dry rot in the San Luis Valley, including one not previously found in the U.S., providing critical data for targeted disease management in one of the nation's top potato-producing regions.
Read the releaseAnalysis of 2,300+ seawater samples spanning the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans shows that industrial chemicals make up the bulk of human-derived organic matter in coastal waters, reaching 20% of total signals near shorelines and exceeding 50% at polluted river mouths.
Read the releaseSimulations from six global models show that aggressive climate mitigation (1.5C target) could put 56 million more people at risk of hunger by 2050 through higher food prices. But the same policies reduce ozone pollution, boosting crop yields enough to offset about 15% of that increase - with 56% of benefits concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and India.
Read the releaseThe American Meteorological Society and four partner organizations issued a statement opposing the removal of a climate science chapter from the federal judicial reference manual, warning it could limit courts' access to established scientific evidence and discourage expert participation.
Read the releaseResearchers propose 'just-shoring' as an alternative to current on-shoring, re-shoring, and friend-shoring strategies for critical minerals, arguing that without enforceable community governance rights, the clean energy transition risks replicating fossil fuel-era injustices.
Read the releaseA batch of early-online AMS journal articles covers 21st-century Mississippi River hydrology, Southern Ocean carbon uptake, gender disparities in European flood fatalities, and climate skepticism among Western U.S. ranchers, among other findings.
Read the releaseScientists drilled to bedrock at Austria's Weissseespitze glacier and recovered a pollution record stretching back over 2,000 years. When they returned in 2025, the ice had thinned from 9.5 to 5.5 meters. The archive is melting before it can be fully read.
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