BEIJING, March 1 – Excessive fossil fuel consumption in recent decades has worsened environmental problems such as the greenhouse effect, driving urgency for technologies that capture and utilize carbon dioxide. One promising approach is the…
Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions…
Figure 1. (a) Pan-Amazon Tropical Moist Forest (TMF) Disturbances (2001–2024), including deforestation (dark grey), small-scale degra- dation (orange), and large-scale degradation (dark red) from the TMF. Burned forest area (red line) represents THE GWIS thermal…
Body of Korean Mountaineer PARK Airlifted to Kathmandu
IMAGE: Phurba Gyalge Secretariat Kathmandu, October 6 — The body of 46-year-old Korean national Taejun Park has been airlifted to Kathmandu through the initiative of the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA). Park had gone missing due…
Finding treasures with physics: The fingerprint matrix
How do you find objects buried in sand or hidden in thick fog? A team from the Institut Langevin (Paris) and TU Wien (Vienna) has developed an astonishing method. Left: Artistic impression of metal spheres…
Volcanic ash may enhance phytoplankton growth in the…
Nishinoshima Island, located in the Ogasawara Islands of Japan, is home to an active volcano. Ash from volcanic eruptions there in 2020 could have led to a temporary surge in phytoplankton levels in the seawater…