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Korea Maritime and Ocean University Researchers Lay Out Strategies for Up-scaling of Bioelectrochemical Systems

With rising concerns about energy and water management, microbial electrochemical technologies (METs), such as microbial fuel cells, have emerged as promising solutions.

19 Jan 2023

Extreme Thunderstorms from Climate Change Likely to Cause Large Windthrow Events in the Amazon

Tropical forests are crucial for sucking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But they're also subject to intense storms that can cause "windthrow" – the uprooting or breaking of trees. These downed trees decompose, potentially turning a forest from a carbon sink into a carbon source.

18 Jan 2023

Understanding Plant Response to Heat and Drought Stress

The international researchers’ group proposes that it is important to comprehend the ecological, biochemical, and physiological responses of plants to the stresses of drought and heat for more feasible management and solutions.

17 Jan 2023

Study Investigates How Redwoods Respond to the Changing Climate

Scientists from Cal Poly Humboldt conducted a rangewide analysis of coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) to examine growth trends and understand how these trees are responding to recent environmental changes.

11 Jan 2023

Existing Conservation Efforts Inadequate to Protect Antarctic Ecosystems, Study Reveals

Existing conservation efforts are insufficient to protect Antarctic ecosystems, and population declines are likely for 65% of the continent's plants and wildlife by the year 2100, according to a study by Jasmine Rachael Lee at the University of Queensland, Australia, and colleagues, publishing December 22 in the open access journal PLOS Biology.

3 Jan 2023

Renewables Generation Up 55% Year-on-year

Renewable energy generation between July and September (2022) was up 55.3% on the same period in 2021, The Scottish Government has revealed.

23 Dec 2022

New Study Reveals Potential Underestimation of Forest Carbon Stocks

UK forests could store almost double the amount of carbon than previous calculations suggest, with consequences for our understanding of carbon stocks and humanity's response to climate change, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.

21 Dec 2022

Research Helps Understand How Land Plants Affect the Climate

Scientists have discovered that the atmosphere contained far less CO2 than previously thought when forests emerged on our planet, the new study has important implications for understanding how land plants affect the climate.

21 Dec 2022

Robust Liability Framework Needed to Encourage Safe Expansion and Use of Carbon Capture

"Robust" amendments to insurance law and international environmental law are needed to allow carbon capture, utilisation and storage to take place legally so the technology can be used in the fight against global warming, a new study says.

21 Dec 2022

Animals Play Unique and Vital Role in Reforestation, Study Says

As nations meet this week in Montreal on efforts to address an unprecedented loss of biodiversity -; more than a million species are threatened with extinction -; a new study published in The Royal Society journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B points to the unique and vital role animals play in reforestation.

21 Dec 2022