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Winners of Top 50 Women in Engineering: Sustainability Revealed

The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) is delighted to announce the winners of the Top 50 Women in Engineering: Sustainability awards. Now in its fifth year, the 2020 WE50 celebrates women who have made a significant contribution within sustainability.

23 Jun 2020

Study Analyzes Challenges of Climate Protection Policy During Current Crisis

With their ad-hoc-statement published today, "Energy transition 2030: Europe's path to carbon neutrality", the academies present a compact series of recommendations in light of the German EU Council Presidency starting on 1 July.

23 Jun 2020

Technology can Help People Consume Efficiently to Save Energy, Resources

A group of researchers, led by a UNSW sustainability scientist, have reviewed existing academic discussions on the link between wealth, economy and associated impacts, reaching a clear conclusion: technology will only get us so far when working towards sustainability - we need far-reaching lifestyle changes and different economic paradigms.

22 Jun 2020

Can you See the Stars? Who has the Darkest Skies?

Tell us what you can see on the longest night, help us map Australia’s light pollution, and set a world record.

18 Jun 2020

Soil Conservation can Improve Air and Water Quality

In some ways, farming is like cooking. Cooking would be much easier if we could leave the kitchen after eating and not come back until we make the next meal.

17 Jun 2020

Soil Organisms can Enhance Numerous Global Sustainability Goals

Soils are home to more than 25 percent of the earth's total biodiversity, supporting life on land and water, nutrient cycling and retention, food production, pollution remediation and climate regulation.

15 Jun 2020

Sea Otters Drive Huge Transformations to their Local Ecosystems

Since their reintroduction to the Pacific coast in the 1970s, the sea otters' rapid recovery and voracious appetite for tasty shellfish such as urchins, clams and crabs has brought them into conflict with coastal communities and fishers, who rely on the same valuable fisheries for food and income.

15 Jun 2020

Cover Cropping may Lead to More Sustainable Crop Production

As farmers across the globe look to grow food more sustainably - with less water, fertilizer, pesticides and other environmental impacts - the use of cover crops is becoming more popular.

12 Jun 2020

NIR Spectroscopy Guide for QC Laboratories

Across the wide range of material and chemical production industries, demand is growing for improved quality assurance and quality control processes.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 11 Jun 2020

A Global Effort to Promote Awareness on Climate Change

Working with international partners, the University of Saskatchewan (USask) has been awarded a $2.5-million Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to increase climate change education, training and public awareness on a global scale.

9 Jun 2020