6 min read ‘Interstellar Glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions Water ice highlighted Interstellar dust highlighted These observations made by NASA’s SPHEREx mission reveal vast frozen complexes in the Cygnus X star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy. Water ice, shown as bright blue structures at left, exactlyContinue Reading
How much planet-warming methane is coming from water reservoirs? Environmental groups want California to track emissions.Continue Reading
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The Bronx River is home to obsolete dams. Plans to remove them could boost efforts to restore dwindling river herring populations. By Lauren Dalban The Bronx River was once a curvy waterway that ran through vast forests and flowed into networks of tidal marshland. For centuries, river herring have swumContinue Reading
A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, explaining why earlier fossils are so scarce. This supports the idea that the earliest sponges were soft-bodied and rarely preserved. The finding changes howContinue Reading
The disruption of global energy supplies is being felt worldwide, the UN’s top climate change official warned on Monday, as conflict in the Middle East drives oil and gas prices sharply higher – echoing the market turmoil triggered by the war in Ukraine.Continue Reading
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Biodegradable plastics could help alleviate the plastic waste crisis that is polluting the environment and harming our health. But how long plastics take to degrade and how environmental bacteria work together to break them down is still largely unknown. Understanding how plastics are broken down by microbes could help scientistsContinue Reading
With Qatar’s liquefied natural gas still offline, U.S. companies see an opening and are bringing in new investments. (Image credit: Brandon Bell)Continue Reading
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Reports from the International Monetary Fund and the International Energy Agency warn of possible global recession as the U.S. enacts a blockade at the Strait of Hormuz. By Phil McKenna As the Iran war nears its seventh week, two of the world’s leading finance and energy institutions are forecasting aContinue Reading