All plastic waste could become new, high-quality plastic through advanced steam cracking
Credit: Illustration: Boid A research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed an efficient process for breaking down ...
Tag: Climate Change
Bean tree plan to protect Amazon
Credit: Toby Pennington Amazon deforestation could be slowed by planting bean trees that would keep soils fertile and help smallholders ...
Cod or haddock? UMass Amherst study looks at ‘name bias’ and fisheries sustainability
Grad student aims to promote tasty alternatives to overfished codCredit: UMass Amherst Could you taste the difference between cod and ...
Stranded whales detected from space
Credit: Maxar Technologies 2019 A new technique for analysing satellite images may help scientists detect and count stranded whales from ...
Museums put ancient DNA to work for wildlife
Old museum specimens are giving researchers fresh insights into endangered speciesCredit: Jay Yocis/UC Creative Services Scientists who are trying to ...
UTA investigating best ways to protect coastal communities from rising sea levels
New strategies to ease coastal floodingCredit: UT Arlington As sea levels rise worldwide, coastal areas of the United States are ...
Hate to wait? Sandia looks to speed up climate research
Early career researcher to lead projectCredit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Presumably, Leonardo da Vinci could have saved a ...
Study helps pinpoint what makes species vulnerable to environmental change
Credit: (Photo by Umesh Srinivasan, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) The fabled use of canaries in coal ...
NASA-NOAA satellite catches last burst before demise of Tropical Depression 17E
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Mexico and found two small areas of very strong thunderstorms near ...
NASA’s Terra satellite catches end of Atlantic Tropical Depression 15
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Depression Fifteen or TD15, developed off the west coast of Africa on Oct. 14 by ...
UNH researchers find climate change increases risk of mercury contamination
Credit: Credit: Florencia Fahnestock/UNH DURHAM, N.H.--As global temperatures continue to rise, the thawing of permafrost in Arctic areas is being ...
UC Riverside helps secure the future of food
$3 million program to train tomorrow's plant scientistsCredit: Stan Lim/UCR If you're eating fruits, nuts, grains, or vegetables in a ...
New catalyst would boost biomass conversion to fuels, chemicals
Cerium oxide catalyst will remove oxygen, reduce processing requirementsCredit: University of Houston Efforts to use biomass, including wood and agricultural ...
Researchers leverage new grant to benefit climate, cows
New England scientists will test algae for dietary supplements to decrease methane emission by cattleCredit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ...
Warmer nights prompt forest birds to lay eggs earlier in spring
Credit: Gergana Daskalova As climate change continues to cause temperatures to rise, the breeding patterns of birds such as blue ...
Computer models show clear advantages in new types of wind turbines
Researchers have modelled the fluid dynamics of multi-rotor wind turbines, and how they interact in wind farms; the research demonstrates ...
Two Harvard researchers receive the 2019 Eni Award, the ‘Nobel Prize in Energy’
Their invention could help the energy industry prioritize renewable sources like solar and windCredit: Image courtesy of Roy Gordon On ...
UTA project evaluates damage from natural disasters quickly, accelerates claims process
Better tools to assess natural disaster damageCredit: UT Arlington A civil engineer at The University of Texas at Arlington will ...
NASA’s Aqua satellite reveals flooding in Japan from Typhoon Hagibis
Credit: NASA Worldview Typhoon Hagibis made landfall in Japan over the weekend of October 12 and 13, bringing damaging winds, ...
Two new porcelain crab species discovered
Credit: T. Britayev and D. Martin Two new porcelain crab species have been described in the ZooKeys journal by scientists ...
