Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the major greenhouse gases causing global warming.
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Significant Cancer Rates in California Sea Lions Have Major Human Health Implications
Scientists at The Marine Mammal Center – the world’s largest marine mammal hospital – have found that viral-caused cancer in adult California sea lions is significantly increased by their exposure to toxins in the environment.
As Climate Warms, Summer Monsoons to Produce Less Streamflow
In the summer of 2019, Desert Research Institute (DRI) scientist Rosemary Carroll, Ph.D., waited for the arrival of the North American Monsoon, which normally brings a needed dose of summer moisture to the area where she lives in Crested Butte, Colo. – but for the fourth year in a row, the rains never really came.
Venus Flytraps Found to Produce Magnetic Fields
The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant that encloses its prey using modified leaves as a trap.
Study Links Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering to Reduced Cardiovascular Risk in Patients Exposed to High Levels of Air Pollution
Evidence suggests particulate matter is the air pollutant which poses the greatest threat to global health.
South Africa: The Rising Temperatures Will Cost up to 20% of per Capita GDP
Temperature rise due to climate change has negatively affected labour productivity in the past decades and will keep damaging it, potentially at a higher extent than what has been estimated in the literature up to now.