Materials scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented the world's first pollen-based sunscreen derived from Camellia flowers.
Ecology
Sep 4, 2025
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Clouds are important for Earth's energy balance because they interact with radiation in different ways. On one hand, low clouds reflect incoming solar radiation and thus cool Earth through a property known as albedo. On the ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2025
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More trees will cool the climate and suppress fires, but mainly if planted in the tropics, according to a new UC Riverside study.
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2025
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Heat waves are becoming more frequent around the world. And while rising temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions are part of the problem, the declining levels of aerosols—the small particles that make up smog and ...
Environment
Jul 16, 2025
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Plane trees in cities have an important cooling effect even in extreme heat, according to a new study conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and EPFL published in Urban Forestry ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2025
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As the planet's oceans are gradually warmed by the effects of climate change, a huge area in the North Atlantic stands out as an unusual zone of relative cooling.
Earth Sciences
Jun 5, 2025
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Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won't cancel out human-generated ...
Earth Sciences
May 29, 2025
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Increasing urban vegetation by 30% could have saved more than one-third of all heat-related deaths, saving up to 1.16 million lives globally from 2000 to 2019 according to a 20-year modeling study of the impact of increasing ...
Environment
May 1, 2025
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An international study led by the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Institute has demonstrated that the formation and properties of lower-atmosphere clouds are highly sensitive to changes in atmospheric ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 3, 2025
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When Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an underwater volcano near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, erupted in 2022, scientists expected that it would spew enough water vapor into the stratosphere to push global temperatures ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 2, 2025
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