Sitting atop the highest slopes in western North America, the whitebark pine has adapted to the continent’s harshest growing conditions.
The Beleaguered Whitebark Pine Is in Trouble. Can It Be Saved?
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Self-Powered Sensor Automatically Harvests Magnetic Energy
MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, self-powered sensor that can harvest energy from its environment.
A New, Rigorous Assessment of OpenET Accuracy for Supporting Satellite-Based Water Management
A new study offers a comprehensive multi-model, large-scale accuracy assessment of an operational satellite-based data system to compute evapotranspiration.
Cobalt-Free Batteries Could Power Cars of the Future
Many electric vehicles are powered by batteries that contain cobalt — a metal that carries high financial, environmental, and social costs.
Stalagmites as Climate Archive
When combined with data from tree-ring records, stalagmites can open up a unique archive to study natural climate fluctuations across hundreds of years, a research team including geoscientists from Heidelberg University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have demonstrated.
The First Assessment of Toxic Heavy Metal Pollution in the Southern Hemisphere Over the Last 2,000 Years
An international team of scientists led by DRI found evidence of Southern Hemisphere heavy metal pollution preserved in Antarctic ice cores from early Andean cultures and Spanish Colonial mining that predates the Industrial Revolution by centuries.
