CF-ENV-RELATED
- New research shines a light on how rainfall shapes ridgetops, valley floors and the critical zone of Earth's surface.
- Hikers and trail runners be warned: Rattlesnakes and other venomous reptiles may bite more people during rainy years than in seasons wracked by drought, a new study shows.
- Side by Side is a community art and science event focused on barn swallows, a declining songbird species that nests exclusively in human-made spaces.
- Degraded alpine ecosystems showed limited recovery years after long-term inputs of human-caused nitrogen air pollution.
- Flooding caused by rain falling on snowpack could more than double by the end of this century in some areas of the western U.S. and Canada due to climate change.
- Researchers say that scant supplies of oxygen may have existed in Earth's ancient atmosphere.
- A new study sheds light on the genetic mechanisms that allowed sunflowers to undergo a relatively rapid evolutionary transition from wild to domesticated in just over 5,000 years.