A new study offers a comprehensive multi-model, large-scale accuracy assessment of an operational satellite-based data system to compute evapotranspiration.
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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.
Keys to Aging Hidden in the Leaves
Scientists have known about a particular organelle in plant cells for over a century.
Scientists Name the Most Common Tropical Tree Species
A major international collaboration of 356 scientists led by UCL researchers has found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world’s tropical forests.
New USGS Map Shows Where Damaging Earthquakes Are Most Likely to Occur in US
Nearly 75 percent of the U.S. could experience damaging earthquake shaking, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey-led team of 50+ scientists and engineers.
Rain Can Spoil a Wolf Spider’s Day, Too
If you hate the rain, you have something in common with wolf spiders.