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“The first layer is only mildly acidic and high in oxygen, similar to a freshwater lake.”
“Lola calculates that the HTP race car produces about 4.4 tons of carbon to build.”
“There are currently 1,353 of these restrictions in place.”
“In the past few decades, he says, "A camp might have had three or four or five days with the heat index over 105 [Fahrenheit]". Now they may have eight or 10.”
“The second layer, hundreds of metres down, has almost no oxygen and is far more acidic, with a much lower pH than the layer above it.”
“This summer unfolded in a world roughly 1.4 degrees Celsius hotter than the late 1800s.”
“There have been 61 environmental incidents due to the drought”
“The camp, which hosts over 700 kids each summer and leads programs across North America, evacuated in July.”
“a new conservation programme known as the Phoenix Species Project has been launched with a commitment of 200 million US dollars to support the recovery of 100 of the world's most threatened species.”
“one degree of warming cuts yields by around 8 percent, roughly double the 3.8 percent modelled.”
“affecting around 20 million people”
“This is a pivotal moment," Hoffman said. "We have never sunk canoes at camp."”
“discussions began in 2021 when DiCaprio and Re:wild chief executive Wes Sechrest met with Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos”
“the proposal could create room for around 2.4 billion additional tonnes of CO2 by 2050.”
“nearly 80% of England's rivers are seeing flows below normal or lower”
“Accra, the capital of Ghana produces around 2,800 to 3,000 tons of solid waste per day and the plastic portion of this volume is estimated between 300 and 450 tons, according to data from the International Growth Centre.”
“Pennsylvania owns 3.9 million acres of managed by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the state Game Commission—including 2.2 million acres of state forest, 1.5 million acres of game land and state parks spanning 295,0…”
“bringing nine new reservoirs by 2050”
“The Yale Environment 360 report noted that only about 5 per cent of the 5,000 tons of plastic discarded daily across the country were sent to recycling facilities.”
“more than 300,000 kilometers distant from the home planet.”
“provide 670 million litres of extra water per day”
“In total for the year, Ghana generates nearly 1.1 million tons of plastic, a figure that the Ghana Circular Economy Center reiterated in July 2026, when calling for investment in collection after the floods that hit Accra.”
“just one-sixth the gravity of the Earth”
“All scientific observations at Jodrell are expected to cease on the 1 April 2028 unless alternative funding can be found.”
“only 23 per cent of roads were paved at the time of the survey published by Yale Environment 360.”
“every two weeks”
“The UKRI, which has an annual budget of just under £10bn, says it has had to cut the observatory's annual £2.8m budget because planned research costs for physics and the running of its labs had escalated. The announcement is part of a broa…”
“The country has installed over 96,000 kilometres of roads with plastic, and about 22,500 kilometres of new roads were built after the Ministry of Road Transport made it mandatory in 2016 to add recycled plastic to asphalt, according to Yal…”
“70 nations”
“Twenty-eight jobs are at risk at the Jodrell Bank site in Cheshire, but its closure would also affect the work of nearly 3,000 scientists who use it in their research.”
“has earned her a place among the 10 finalists in the 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge”
“Roth, a graduate researcher at Princeton, told me in an interview his team ultimately found a treasure trove of exoplanet candidates, ranging from colossal gas giants locked in tight orbits around their stars, called “Hot Jupiters,” to “su…”
“The UK will no longer participate in research at the James Clark Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii... And there will be a 20% cut in funding that supports UK participation in the Vera Rubin Telescope in Chile...”
“win the $25,000 grand prize”
“The expressed goal of the Plato mission is to find an Earth-like planet around a Sun like star. Plato is also designed to seek out planets that feature liquid water on their surface, along with an atmosphere conducive to life.”
“Joined together these UK telescopes can zoom into objects in deep space and see them in incredible detail — with similar resolution to the Hubble space telescope.”
“now in its 19th year”
“The first IPCC report from 1990 said that it is certain that greenhouse gas emissions [cause warming].”
“The invisible dark matter and dark energy that make up more than 95% of the Universe.”
“conclude on October 12 and 13 at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minnesota”
“Every additional ton of CO2 emissions is going to make this worse. [...] We can’t go back from the warming that we are causing now [...] It will affect us and our children and grandchildren for thousands of years to come”
“BuzzBallz cannot be recycled as the PET plastic ball cannot be separated from the aluminium lid, global environmental action body WRAP said.”
“the 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge, where she could win a $25,000 main prize.”
“After analysing a plastic recover facility in Manchester with a processing capacity of 35,000 tonnes of plastic a year, for six months, the company found that BuzzBallz contaminated recycled plastic 66% of the time.”
“Naboshree is among 10 students picked from across the country for the 19th annual competition.”
“North Africa recorded the most rapid warming of the six subregions - 0.43C per decade - between 1991 and 2025”
“On October 12 and 13, all 10 students will travel to the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.”
“The 2026 finalists are between 11 and 14 years old.”
“The contest invites children in grades five to eight to use science, technology, engineering, and math to solve real everyday problems.”
“The competition formed an Alumni Network in 2022 to connect past finalists and mentors.”
“Former winner Gitanjali Rao was named TIME's first Kid of the Year in 2020.”
“Liam McCarty made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022.”
“Heman Bekele was named TIME's Kid of the Year in 2024.”
“These balls slow down water evaporation and help the soil stay wet for longer.”
“the 19th annual competition.”
“By using ultraviolet observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers were able to isolate the white dwarfs for the first time, measure their temperatures and confirm their existence.”
“According to the study, the four white dwarfs were found to have effective temperatures ranging from roughly 5,300 to 6,300 Kelvin, confirming that they are relatively cool and therefore difficult to detect through conventional surveys.”
“The researchers also showed that estimates based only on photometric measurements can overstate white dwarf temperatures by around five to eight per cent because emission from active red dwarfs contaminates the observations.”
“Including these newly confirmed objects allowed the researchers to revise the estimated local white dwarf space density to approximately 5.2 × 10⁻³ white dwarfs per cubic parsec.”
“As per the study, the team compared the observed number of nearby systems with predictions from Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis (BPASS) models. The theoretical calculations predicted around 4.4 such systems within 20 parsecs of th…”
“One particularly notable system is G 203-47, located just 7.6 parsecs from Earth. Although astronomers suspected for more than two decades that it hosted a white dwarf companion, this study provides the first direct confirmation. That disc…”
“Using Swift X-ray observations together with existing photometric data, the researchers found evidence that the red dwarf in G 203-47 rotates far more slowly than it orbits, with a likely rotation period exceeding 100 days. This indicates …”
“Alberta was the first place in North America to spot Prussian carp. Since they first showed up, the fish have travelled through connected rivers into Saskatchewan and appeared in several Alberta river systems. According to Rural Roots Cana…”
“a study of 18,000 forest patches found community rules can limit clearing and allow trees to return”
“If a farmer asks for too much—say, a 20-acre (8-hectare) field instead of a 2-acre (0.8-hectare) field—fewer people show up to help”
“Satellite maps showed a clear difference at the country's border with Guatemala. On the Guatemalan side, vast stretches of forest were completely cleared for cattle fields. On the Belizean side, where Mayan villages live, a healthy mix of …”
“Slash-and-burn farming, or shifting cultivation, is an ancient agricultural technique used by roughly 200 to 300 million people globally, primarily in tropical forest regions”
“When you create swidden patches, you create new ecosystem niches during the fallow stage where different species thrive, and you end up with higher levels of biodiversity across the landscape than you do in a mature forest alone”
“Because tropical soils quickly lose their fertility, crops can usually only be harvested on a freshly burned plot for two or three years. Once soil nutrients run low, farmers abandon the site and leave it 'fallow' for 5 to 20 years”
“The main conclusion of the study was the identification of 56,659 possible future lakes with a minimum area of 0.05 km square. According to the authors, these future lakes could occupy 40,647 km² and store up to 3,138 km³ of water.”
“Another study published in 2023 in Nature Communications estimated that 15 million people worldwide are exposed to the potential impacts of sudden floods from glacial lakes. This work identified High Mountain Asia as the region with the gr…”
“According to the study, direct observations of glacier bed elevation exist for only about 2% of global glaciers.”
“The Flow Country alone holds roughly 400 million tonnes of carbon in its soil, which is more carbon than all of the UK’s forests and woods combined.”
“Official records show that over 75,000 hectares have been fixed so far, including a record 10,360 hectares completed during the 2023-24 financial year.”
“Peatlands cover over two million hectares across Scotland, making up 25 per cent of the country's land area and more than 60 per cent of all UK peatlands.”
“The project is estimated to save 1.32 crore litres of oil and cut 6.67 crore kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to planting 0.27 crore trees”
“Workers broke drilling equipment while boring into the seafloor and were unable to retrieve it, ultimately abandoning 1,100 feet of pipe and 6,500 gallons of drill fluid in the ocean.”
“Worth €346,000 (around $395,000), the project involves researchers from the”
“The plant also sends up to 40% of organic material it produces through photosynthesis to the soil via its roots, which is way more than other farm plants,”
“The development of humus and soil fertility is better here than under other plants,”
“The grass is "capable of growing on degraded and contaminated soils and produces extensive root systems that can accumulate metals while simultaneously restoring soil organic matter."”
“The 15-acre pool at Mirada uses filtration systems to keep the huge body of water clear while using less water and fewer chemicals than standard swimming pools.”
“The Central Water Commission (CWC) monitors glacial lakes larger than 10 hectares across four states and two Union Territories from June to October every year using remote sensing.”
“Based on the assessment, 56 glacial lakes were classified as very high risk considering their potential to trigger Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) and the exposure of downstream habitations and infrastructure”
“Of these, 584 bacterial species had never been documented before.808,585 viral genomes which belonged to 362,802 different viruses, were also identified.”
“The team identified 5,283 bacterial and archaeal genomes, representing 876 different species.”
“The research was led by the University of Queensland and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), with contributions from James Cook University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Tasmania.”
“Microalgae produce most of the oxygen we breathe and underpin food chains in the open oceans”
“The project began more than five years ago and became possible because of advances in DNA sequencing and computing.”
“His invention can detect microplastics directly in water with a reported 94% accuracy, earning him the prestigious Gordon E. Moore Award and a US$50,000 scholarship at the 2026 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).”
“Altogether, Budz invested nearly 4,000 hours into the project, turning an idea inspired by nature into an award-winning environmental innovation.”
“The AI-powered system can identify plastic particles as small as 10 microns, significantly thinner than a human hair.”
“Tony Rinaudo, widely known as the 'Forest Maker,' helped farmers in Niger regenerate more than 200 million trees, not by planting new forests but by reviving living tree stumps, dormant root systems and naturally buried seeds beneath the s…”
“A recent study by researchers from Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, found that the Yamuna's average width through Delhi has shrunk by nearly 68%, from about 658 metres in 1799 to …”
“Water discharge has fallen by almost 90%, largely because of barrages, canals and diversion projects.”
“Although the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said that widening and retaining-wall works have doubled storage capacity and tripled carrying capacity since 2005, officials admit pollution remains the biggest challenge.”
“The Union environment ministry classifies stretches of the Musi among India's 'Priority-I polluted river stretches', while the ministry of Jal Shakti said four sewage treatment plants with a combined capacity of 593 MLD have been created u…”
“The findings suggest that North American beavers (Castor canadensis) began colonising parts of the area in 2008.”
“During their fieldwork, they recorded 60 beaver lodges or dam sites.”
“At one large beaver lodge and dam complex, satellite data showed a sudden increase in surface water between 2015 and 2019.”
