US power sector is halfway to zero carbon emissions
New Berkeley Lab study reviews progress towards a carbon-free power sectorCredit: Berkeley Lab Concerns about climate change are driving a ...
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Reducing ocean acidification by removing CO2: Two targets for cutting-edge research
Credit: Butenschön et al., 2021 Is it possible to simultaneously address the increase of the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
Silk moth’s diapause reverts back to ancestors’ through gene editing!?
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Kunihiro Shiomi, Shinshu University Diapause is a phenomenon in which animals and insects foresee changes in ...
Abandoning the old ways: Progress in the low-cost electrochemical synthesis of ammonia
Scientists develop high performing electrocatalyst to synthesize ammonia in an effort to replace conventional eco-unfriendly methodsCredit: Freepik Ammonia (NH3) is ...
Megafauna extinction mystery – size isn’t everything
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto Ancient clues, in the shape of fossils and archaeological evidence of varying quality scattered across ...
Past Global Changes Horizons – a new paleoscience magazine for teenagers and young adults
Picture the past. Change the future.Credit: Illustration by Cirenia Arias Baldrich for Past Global Changes Horizons, vol. 1 Past Global ...
Research suggests SEC’s increasing focus on terrorism may limit financial oversight
When SEC asks companies about potential ties to terrorism, it catches fewer reporting errorsCredit: Ryan Gaucher/Duke University's Fuqua School of ...
Plastic planet: Tracking pervasive microplastics across the globe
Credit: Janice Brahney/S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. Really big systems, like ocean ...
Leader in global nitrogen cycle research Eric Davidson named Jefferson Science Fellow
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science CAMBRIDGE, MD (April 12, 2021)--University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Professor ...
World’s first study to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese inland waters
HKU geographer leads world's first study to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese inland waters over the past 30 yearsCredit: ...
Poop core records 4,300 years of bat diet and environment
An inaccessible cave preserved clues to Jamaica's climate past in the sedimentary layers of bat guanoCredit: Sherri and Brock Fenton ...
‘Sustainable Construction’: Austrian Stones & Ceramics Association endows TU Graz professorship
Appointment of the professorhip 'Sustainable Construction' will take place in the summer of 2021Credit: Lunghammer - TU Graz Graz University ...
UT begins offshore search for sand resources to protect Texas from coastal erosion
Credit: Texas General Land Office Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin will embark from Galveston on April 14 ...
Policy decisions will affect coastal communities’ risk more than climate change
Credit: Steve Dundas, Oregon State CORVALLIS, Ore. - Coastal communities face increasing danger from rising water and storms, but the ...
Conservationists may be unintentionally spreading pathogens between threatened animal populations
Credit: David Aldridge Moving endangered species to new locations is often used as part of species conservation strategies, and can ...
Abrupt ice age climate changes behaved like cascading dominoes
Credit: Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl. Throughout the last ice age, the climate changed repeatedly and rapidly during so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, where ...
Mountain growth influences greenhouse effect
Weathering of rocks can bind or release carbon dioxide -- in active mountain ranges, carbon-dioxide release strongly dominatesCredit: Kristen Cook ...
Regional habitat differences identified for threatened piping plovers on Atlantic coast
Findings can help enhance shorebird species' protection, recoveryCredit: Credit: Susan Haig, USGS Piping plovers, charismatic shorebirds that nest and feed ...
Solar and wind power could mitigate conflict in northeast Africa
Research from KU Leuven and VUB on sensitive geopolitical conflict around Ethiopian mega-damCredit: Google A new study shows that several ...
Corals carefully organize proteins to form rock-hard skeletons
Scientists' findings suggest corals will withstand climate changeCredit: Kevin Wyman/Rutgers University Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who championed the theory ...
