BOULDER, Colorado, June 26 (TNSres) -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research issued the following news release: * * * New study has implications for vegetation-based carbon removal projects * * * The carbon stored globally by plants is shorter-lived and more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, according to a new study. The findings have implications for the role of flora in mitigating climate change, including the potential for vegetation-based carbon removal project  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The National Environmental Education Foundation issued the following news: The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) is proud to announce the awardees of the 2024-2025 Bureau of Land Management Greening STEM Grant. Since 2020, NEEF has collaborated with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to fund Greening STEM Demonstration Projects for middle and high school students using components of NEEF's Greening STEM model to design and deliver STEM programming at BL  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, June 27 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: For a billion years, single-celled eukaryotes ruled the planet. Then around 700 million years ago during Snowball Earth -- a geologic era when glaciers may have stretched as far as the Equator -- a new creature burst into existence: the multicellular organism. Why did multicellularity arise? Solving that mystery may help pinpoint life on other planets and explain the vast diversity   more

BOULDER, Colorado, June 27 (TNSres) -- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences issued the following news: * * * New CIRES-led study measures the time between storms to better understand soil moisture * * * With record rainfall projected to continue into the future, many worry extreme flooding will follow suit. But a new CIRES-led study published today in Science of the Total Environment found an increase in precipitation alone won't necessarily increase disastrous f  more