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Zebra Finches Survive Australian Heatwaves by Predicting High Temperatures

The survival habits of a native Australian bird have given Curtin University researchers vital clues that may help understand how wildlife can withstand harsh heatwaves that may prove fatal.

3 Dec 2019

New Research on Prokaryotes Could Help Develop More Accurate Climate Models

While adapting to hotter temperatures, bacteria tend to accelerate their respiration rate and emit more carbon, thus possibly speeding up climate change.

13 Nov 2019

Researchers Discover Potential Oxyfluoride Materials for Water Splitting Reaction

Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) studied a material capable of splitting water molecules (H2O) to generate dihydrogen (H2) in the presence of sunlight.

18 Oct 2019

Solutions to Overcome Seasonal Variations in Urban Heat Island Effect

During the heat of summer, cities tend to swelter more than neighboring rural areas and suburbs. While the size of this urban heat island effect differs broadly among the world’s cities, heat island intensity can fundamentally be explained by a city’s precipitation level and population, scientists stated in a paper published in the journal Nature on September 4th, 2019.

5 Sep 2019

Around 2,000 New Amazon Fires Recorded Despite Burning Ban

New fires are searing through the Amazon forest at an alarming rate which is a cause for global concern.

2 Sep 2019

New Study Could Help Develop More Efficient, Affordable Algae-Based Biofuels

Researchers from Rutgers University have found how diatoms—a kind of alga that can generate 20% of the atmospheric oxygen—are able to use solar energy for photosynthesis.

14 Aug 2019

Natural Gas Leakage is the Key Contributor to Atmospheric Methane in Los Angeles

When talking about anthropogenic climate change, carbon dioxide usually grabs the attention; however, it is not the only greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere by human activity. Neither is it the most powerful.

13 Aug 2019

Study on Potential of Trees to Decelerate Global Warming in the Future

Similar to the eponymous character in classic children’s tale by Shel Silverstein, trees are lavish with their gifts, cleaning the air humans breathe and decelerating the effects of global warming by absorbing nearly a quarter of all human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

13 Aug 2019

Plastic-Based Materials can Store Natural Gas and Combat Climate Change

Scientists have synthesized plastic-based materials that can make large-scale, profitable, and safe natural gas storage possible and can further hopefully combat global warming.

12 Aug 2019

Rising CO2 Levels Could Boost Wheat Yield but Slightly Reduce Nutritional Quality

Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are rising, which experts predict could produce more droughts and hotter temperatures. Although these weather changes would negatively impact many plants’ growth, the increased CO2 availability might actually be advantageous because plants use the greenhouse gas to make food by photosynthesis.

2 Aug 2019