The composition of aquatic plant communities in shallow freshwater bodies, including floating plants, submerged plants and phytoplankton, can have important effects on greenhouse gas production, transport and emissions, according ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 27, 2025
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Federal lands—which make up about 640 million acres, or 28%, of U.S. soil—are used for many purposes, including conservation, recreation, and extraction of resources such as coal. Greenhouse gas emissions are released ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 20, 2025
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Human waste usually gets flushed away, but instead of going down the toilet, it can help the planet and solve global fertilizer shortages, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy ...
New research from Michigan State University, led by agricultural systems scientist Bruno Basso, addresses a major problem in agricultural carbon markets: how to set an accurate starting point, or "baseline," for measuring ...
Biotechnology
Jul 15, 2025
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A new study conducted by geologists from the University of Florida and the University of Maryland reveals that, as land is exposed by melting glaciers, chemical reactions in the newly uncovered glacial sediments initially ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2025
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A team of scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel method to more accurately quantify greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale greenhouse cultivation, addressing ...
Biotechnology
Jun 26, 2025
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An interdisciplinary research team involving the Research Institute of Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf and the Universities of Rostock, Munich and Vienna has discovered that willow leaves have the potential to drastically ...
Ecology
Jun 17, 2025
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Laughing gas (nitrous oxide or N₂O) is primarily released by the microorganisms responsible for cleaning our wastewater. These microbes live in complex communities, with each group performing a specific role. Emissions ...
Environment
May 8, 2025
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Switchgrass has gripped Midwestern soils for millions of years, but soon, the earthbound prairie grass could fly. New studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign identify economic and environmental considerations ...
Biotechnology
Apr 24, 2025
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Farmers apply nitrogen fertilizers to crops to boost yields, feeding more people and livestock. But when there's more fertilizer than the crop can take up, some of the excess can be converted into gaseous forms, including ...
Agriculture
Apr 21, 2025
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