Tag: Climate Change

Pharmacy faculty member studies properties that are environmentally friendlyCredit: University of Cincinnati University of Cincinnati cosmetic scientist Harshita Kumari has ...

Losing ground in biodiversity hotspots worldwide

Agriculture, urban sprawl destroying biologically important areasCredit: Francesco Cherubini/NTNU Between 1992 and 2015, the world's most biologically diverse places lost ...

Waiter! This soup is not fly

New research outlines barriers to eating climate-friendly Black Soldier Fly larvae as a protein alternative for humansCredit: (c) Leah_Gourmet Grub ...

New $53 million grant to create world-wide fleet of robotic floats to monitor ocean health

Credit: Image courtesy of SOCCOM (NSF Award PLR-1425989) MOSS LANDING, CA - On October 29, 2020 the National Science Foundation ...

Escaping the ‘Era of Pandemics’: experts warn worse crises to come; offer options to reduce risk

Highlights: Intergovernmental council on pandemic prevention; risk drivers include deforestation, wildlife trade; tax high pandemic-risk activities; 540,000 - 850,000 unknown ...

Bioenergy research team sequences miscanthus genome

CABBI study provides a genetic road map to maximize the productivity and adaptability of this perennial grass and potential bioenergy ...

International team tracks record-setting smoke cloud from Australian wildfires

Credit: Submitted/USask SASKATOON - Researchers with the University of Saskatchewan's Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies are part of a ...

Study finds seabird ecosystem shift in Falkland islands

Credit: Dulcinea Groff Seabird populations in the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean are facing direct and indirect impacts of climate ...

Climate change drives plants to extinction in the Black Forest in Germany, study finds

Credit: Thomas Sperle Climate change is leaving its mark on the bog complexes of the German Black Forest. Due to ...

Renewable energy targets can undermine sustainable intentions

Credit: The University of Queensland Renewable energy targets (RETs) may be too blunt a tool for ensuring a sustainable future, ...

SeaAhead and New England Aquarium announce BlueSwell incubator’s first cohort of startups

Six companies focused on ocean sustainability and global resilience will enter the program in NovemberCredit: SeaAhead BOSTON, MASS. (October 28, ...

Coral researchers find link between bacterial genus and disease susceptibility

Credit: (OSU College of Science) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Corals that appear healthy are more prone to getting sick when they're ...

Study: Most migratory birds rely on a greening world

Continued climate change could spell disaster for many speciesCredit: Frank La Sorte, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ithaca, NY--A new study ...

Beaches can survive sea-level rises as long as they have space to move

Credit: University of Plymouth An international team of coastal scientists has dismissed suggestions that half the world's beaches could become ...

Biodiversity monitoring programmes need a culture of collaboration

Integration of contributors promotes the quantity and quality of dataCredit: André Künzelmann/UFZ Ecological monitoring is the recording of biological diversity ...

Dartmouth engineering professor elected OSA fellow

Credit: Robert Gill / Dartmouth Dartmouth engineering professor Jifeng Liu has been named a fellow of The Optical Society (OSA). ...

Photovoltaics industry can help meet Paris agreement targets

Model predicts efficiency of solar photovoltaic cells, costs to manufacture them during a transition to 100% renewable energy within the ...

Small mussels in the Baltic are getting even smaller

Credit: Thomas Tranåker Blue mussels in the Baltic Sea are getting smaller with time but bigger in numbers, according to ...

Water consumption for trees is calculated in order to design precision irrigation systems

Credit: Universidad de Córdoba / PxHere In 1995, the severe drought that devastated Spain left some farms using irrigation agriculture ...

Saving the climate from the ground up