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As per researchers, drastic changes to forests, and other environments that store carbon in soils and plants, are becoming more possible in some areas all over Earth, with less carbon absorbed steadily by the “land carbon sink” offered by soil, trees, and plants.

Most people have probably never heard of lignin, which is arguably the most prevalent component of biomass. That may change soon.

Researchers from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), the research arm of MIT in Singapore, have created the first ever nanosensors capable of detecting and differentiating gibberellins (GAs), a class of hormones in plants that are crucial for growth.

The fluid-like movement of electrons in graphene was directly observed by physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the first time at a nanometer resolution.

Researchers are using an approach called radiomics to predict future cardiac events like heart attacks, according to a study published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America.

Recent research carried out by an international group of researchers reveals that irreversible loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, as well as a related rapid acceleration of sea level rise, could be inevitable if the global temperature change is not stabilized below 1.8 °C relative to preindustrial levels.

In an important step towards a commercially viable green hydrogen industry, researchers have created a less expensive and more energy-efficient method of producing hydrogen straight from saltwater.

Scientists from Harvard have revealed an out-of-this-world geoengineering approach that has the potential to slow the effects of global warming using space dust. While something of a moonshot, the researchers claim dust mined and launched from the moon could have an impact on the flow of solar radiation, slowing down the effects of climate change.

Scientists discovered that glacier movement in Greenland is more complicated than it sounds, with deformation in warmer ice comprising small amounts of water accounting for motion earlier thought to be caused by sliding where the ice meets the bedrock beneath.

More than 44 million individuals in the United States rely on unregulated private drinking water wells. Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and other institutions discovered that current monitoring practices do not truly capture groundwater pollution risks.