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Study Indicates Future Forests Will Have Smaller Trees Resulting in Less Uptake of Carbon

University of Arizona-led team of scientists may have developed the next best thing to a crystal ball to inform ecologists how forests of the future will react to the changing climate.

27 Jan 2022

Yokogawa Survey Reveals Significant Impact of Industrial Autonomy on Environmental Sustainability

Yokogawa Electric Corporation reveals today the results of its latest survey* to gain further insights into the current and future state of industrial autonomy in process manufacturing.

27 Jan 2022

Exploring Hg Mass Balance in Tropical Forests Along a Latitudinal Gradient

Mercury (Hg), as a global pollutant, is directly emitted into the air — from geogenic and anthropogenic sources — and into the earlier deposited Hg in natural surfaces.

25 Jan 2022

Sufficient Water Flows During Summer can be Critical to Chinook Salmon Population, Study Finds

A study led by Simon Fraser University researchers has discovered that sufficient water flows during summer can be critical to a Chinook salmon population in the interior of British Columbia.

24 Jan 2022

New Water-Power-Economy Model to Explore Climate Impacts on Electricity Demand and Cost

Around the world, energy systems are increasingly impacted by the effects of a changing climate. Energy systems, especially the electric-power system, are vulnerable to natural stressors such as wildfires, severe storms, extreme temperatures and long-term disruptions of the hydrological cycle.

19 Jan 2022

Freshwater Accelerating Arctic Ice Melt at Unprecedented Rate

Irina Panyushkina grew up in Siberia, near the Arctic Circle. She was raised on stories of explorers trudging through seas of ice to reach the North Pole.

19 Jan 2022

Climate Change Forces Fish Stocks to Shift from Their Historical Habitat Range

Climate change will force 45 per cent of the fish stocks that cross through two or more exclusive economic zones to shift significantly from their historical habitats and migration paths by 2100, a challenge that may lead to international conflict, according to a new UBC study.

19 Jan 2022