Climate change has already begun to transform planet Earth, and over the next few decades these dramatic transformations are expected to accelerate in an ongoing response to greenhouse gas emissions.
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Walking to Combat Back Pain: World-First Study Shows Dramatic Improvement
Adults with a history of low back pain lasted nearly twice as long without a recurrence if they walked regularly, a world-first study has found.
A Better Model for Converting Carbon Dioxide into Fuels and Products
Some parts of the world have been so successful in making inexpensive renewable electricity that we occasionally have too much of it.
Space Instruments Provide Early Warnings for Solar Flares
When a solar flare leaps out from around the sun, a small fleet of scientific instruments designed and built at the University of Colorado Boulder form a first line of defense—spotting these massive eruptions before any other instrument in space, then relaying the information to Earth in seconds.
Researchers Invent One Hundred Percent Biodegradable "Barley Plastic"
Enormous islands of it float in our oceans and microscopic particles of it are in our bodies.
Non-Native Plants and Animals Expanding Ranges 100 Times Faster than Native Species, Finds New Research Led by UMass Amherst
An international team of scientists has recently found that non-native species are expanding their ranges many orders of magnitude faster than native ones, in large part due to inadvertent human help.
