Transforming Marine Biodiversity Discovery and Monitoring
Over the past decade biodiversity researchers have increasingly used DNA sequences extracted from environmental samples such as soil, marine and...
Environment
Combining Sunlight and Wastewater Nitrate to Make the World’s No. 2 Chemical
Engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago have created a solar-powered electrochemical reaction that not only uses wastewater to make...
Troubled Waters: How Global Marine Wildlife Protection Can Undermine Fishing Communities
New research led by the University of Oxford, published in Conservation Letters, has examined the conflict between small-scale fisheries and...
Uncertainty on Climate Change in Textbooks Linked to Uncertainty in Students
A new study from North Carolina State University suggests textbook wording that portrays climate change information as uncertain can influence...
Species in Polar Regions Hard Hit by Climate Change
Many species will become extinct as a consequence of global warming. This is the prediction of a mathematical model developed...
UMass Amherst Researcher to Unravel the “Last Great Arctic Mystery”
Raymond Bradley, Distinguished Professor Of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will lead a team of researchers to Peary...
Researchers Calculate the Cost of Restoring Australia’s Degraded Ecosystems
The health and diversity of Australian ecosystems are in decline. The environment is under mounting pressure from land clearing, altered...
Captured Water, Carbon Dioxide From Car Exhaust Could Help Grow Food
What if both the water and carbon dioxide (CO2) produced from a vehicle’s exhaust system could be captured and used...
August 2021 Was Earth’s Sixth-Warmest August on Record
The world saw little relief from the heat in August. The month finished as the sixth-warmest August on record, following...
Rapid Increase in Global Light Pollution
This figure only includes light visible via satellites, and scientists estimate the true increase may be significantly higher – up...