10+ hour, 28+ min ago   (56+ words) Water utilities live and die by the forecast. When a crew opens a valve or takes a pipe offline for inspection, the entire calculation rests on an assumption about how much water customers will draw that day. Get that number…...

12+ hour, 55+ min ago   (91+ words) Global agriculture is locked in a widening battle against pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and a sweeping new review argues that artificial intelligence has moved from a promising experiment to the central organizing technology of modern plant health management. Writing…...

16+ hour, 50+ min ago   (656+ words) Adults recovering in a vocational rehabilitation program in a remote corner of Iceland rated sledging down snowy slopes, kayaking on cold fjord waters, and hiking into the mountains as the most meaningful and psychologically rewarding activities of their rehabilitation, according…...

17+ hour, 54+ min ago   (625+ words) A sweeping national survey of Brazilian municipalities has exposed a deep disconnect between the world’s most ambitious early warning initiative and the local governments expected to carry it out....

19+ hour, 17+ min ago   (607+ words) Cities are getting hotter, faster, and the people least responsible for the problem are often the most exposed to it. Dense development, heat-absorbing asphalt and rooftops, and the loss of vegetation combine to push urban summer temperatures several degrees above…...

19+ hour, 17+ min ago   (101+ words) In the steep, rain-washed valleys of the northwestern Himalayas, a quiet contest is underway beneath farmers’ feet. A new field study from the Rohru region of Himachal Pradesh, India, shows that the way land is used — whether under annual crops,…...

19+ hour, 31+ min ago   (665+ words) What if the secret to greener construction materials is already hanging in the back of your closet? A team of researchers in Bangladesh has taken that question to the laboratory, and the answer they found is more nuanced than most…...

21+ hour, 52+ min ago   (576+ words) High on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, the world’s most extensive alpine grasslands are quietly losing their ability to heal themselves. For decades, land managers have assumed that simply fencing off overgrazed pastures and letting nature take its course would be enough…...

23+ hour, 3+ min ago   (808+ words) When dangerous heat builds over Jakarta, Surabaya, or any of Indonesia’s densely populated coastal cities, the responsibility for sounding the alarm rests on a small group of operational meteorologists working for the country’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency, known as…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (620+ words) Beneath every rice paddy and wheat field lies an intricate economy of organisms, from bacteria and fungi to nematodes, mites, springtails, potworms and earthworms, all connected through chains of consumption and decomposition that determine how nutrients cycle and how fertile…...