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Groundbreaking Project to Convert the Seaweed Sargassum into Ethanol for Use in Plastics, C-Cause, Selected for German Government’s ‘Disruptive Innovation’ Grant

Today SPRIN-D announced their selection of C-Cause Consortium, a project partnership led by The Alfred Wegener Institute, Carbonwave, GEOMAR and Seafields, as one of five projects chosen for their ‘Carbon-to-Value' challenge.

13 Jun 2022

Extreme Climatic Events Enhance Resilience to Future Drought Stress Over Time

Various species endure evolutionary changes when a plant community is subjected to drought. An international study involving UZH researchers has now found that this leads to improved drought resilience over time.

10 Jun 2022

Researchers Measure Shifts in Whale Habitat Use in Cape Cod Bay

A new study performed has discovered the fact that climate change is having an effect on how big whale species, such as the crucially threatened North Atlantic right whale, tend to utilize habitats in the warming Gulf of Maine.

10 Jun 2022

Study Analyzes the Ocean's Response to Climate Change

Even if it is possible for the society to decelerate all greenhouse gas emissions and get to the so-called “net zero” by mid-century as aimed by nations of the world in the UN Paris Agreement, there is a delay constructed in the climate system mainly due to the ocean thermal inertia (also, ice sheets).

10 Jun 2022

New Study Characterizes the Role of Fire Refugia in Forest Regeneration

Thanks to climate change, high-elevation forests in the Central Cascade mountains of the Pacific Northwest are burning more frequently and expansively than in the recent past, prompting researchers and fire managers to question whether forests will be able to recover from these emerging fire patterns and whether they will require human assistance to do so.

10 Jun 2022

Predator Impacts in the Ocean Peak at Higher Temperatures

A hotter ocean is a hungrier ocean-;at least as far as fish predators are concerned. In a new field study published online June 9 in Science, Smithsonian scientists discovered predator impacts in the Atlantic and Pacific peak at higher temperatures.

10 Jun 2022

Study Predicts Geographic Range Restriction of Salamanders Under Future Climate Scenarios

In a study published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, investigators predicted the geographic range restriction of several different species of salamanders in eastern Canada and the United States under future climate scenarios in 2050 and 2070.

10 Jun 2022

GRDC’s Support Plants the Seed for Crop Disease Breakthroughs

A Curtin University research centre will continue to discover new ways to reduce the economic impact of crop disease for Australian growers, with a further five-year investment of $30 million by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC).

10 Jun 2022

Newly Developed Analysis Method for Plastic Particles and Fibers

At the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, samples collected from the tropical Indian Ocean were examined by scientists by making use of a new technique for the extraction and identification of microplastic particles gathered from water samples.

9 Jun 2022

Biodiversity of the Amazon’s Freshwater Species Is Under Strong Fishing Pressure, Finds Study

Because the treasured rainforest in the Amazon River region of South America is constantly shrinking, the river itself currently presents proof of other dangers: the overuse of freshwater fish.

9 Jun 2022