A new national study of public water systems found that arsenic levels were not uniform across the U.S., even after implementation of the latest national regulatory standard.
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Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds Likely to Intensify as Climate Warms
Polar climate scientists have created the most high resolution past record of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds.
Index Reveals Integrity Issues for Many of the World's Forests
Only 40 per cent of forests are considered to have high ecological integrity, according to a new global measure, the Forest Landscape Integrity Index.
Almost a Third of Young Adults With Asthma Are Ignoring COVID-19 Guidelines, Says Survey
Awareness of guidelines to prevent COVID-19 is high among young asthma sufferers but around a third do not comply with them, according to a new survey published in the Journal of Asthma.
Nature Conservation Requires More Dynamic Approach to Weather Impacts of Climate Change
In a hard-hitting new paper leading ecologists and climate change specialists argue that current nature conservation practices are not sufficiently flexible and dynamic to weather the impacts of climate change.
Hawai’i Researchers Kept the Data Flowing During Crisis Response on Kīlauea
The summer 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano on the Island of Hawai’i was one of the most significant in the volcano’s history, collapsing a large portion of the summit caldera, erupting massively from its flank and triggering a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the process.