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Study Reveals Global Warming Accelerates the Loss of Biodiversity

According to research from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), headed by Almut Arneth, a significant number of present and proposed post-2020 biodiversity targets of international organizations are vulnerable due to climate change, even if other obstacles like habitat exploitation are eliminated.

9 Dec 2020

Researchers Investigate How Marine Protected Areas Shield Ocean Species from Heatwaves

Over the past several decades, marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as a favored conservation tool. By protecting marine species and safeguarding habitat, these reserves help buffer ecosystems against natural and human-made shocks alike.

8 Dec 2020

Knowledge of Underground Life of Plants Could Help Mitigate Climate Change

Plants competing for sunlight—stretching upward and outward to block each other’s exposure to the rays of the sun—is a usual sight. However, there is another competition occurring underground, unobserved.

4 Dec 2020

Art and Marine Biotech Combine to Help Solve Global Plastics Problem

The development of Marine-derived Biopolymer Materials at Flinders University to help solve global plastics problems has taken the innovative step of inviting artists work with research scientists in identifying the widest possible applications for the new materials.

3 Dec 2020

Groundwater Reservoirs in Bavaria have Turned Warmer due to Climate Change

In the last few decades, groundwater reservoirs in Bavaria have heated up significantly. Scientists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have now compared temperatures at 35 measuring stations, taken at various depths, with the 1990s data.

2 Dec 2020

Peyssonnelid Algal Crusts are Overgrowing, Threatening Shallow Coral Reefs

All over the world, coral health has been threatened by human activity. A new algal danger is leveraging coral’s already perilous condition in the Caribbean and rendering it more difficult for reef ecosystems to thrive.

1 Dec 2020

An Escape Route for Seafloor Methane

Methane, the main component of natural gas, is the cleanest-burning of all the fossil fuels, but when emitted into the atmosphere it is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

1 Dec 2020

ReFLEX Orkney Launches Innovative Green Energy Services for Orkney

Orkney is once again leading the drive to net zero and supporting UK government plans for a green industrial revolution with the launch of new green local energy services.

1 Dec 2020

Grassland Restoration in Semi-Arid Regions can Mitigate Climate Change Effects

A recent study showed how, contrary to encroachment by the invasive alien tree species Prosopis julifora (referred to as “Mathenge” in Kenya or “Promi” in Baringo), the revival of grasslands in tropical semi-arid areas can alleviate the effects of climate change as well as restore important benefits typically provided by healthy grasslands for agro-pastoralist and pastoralist communities.

25 Nov 2020

Current Earth System Models Have Largely Over-Estimated Water Stress in Tropical Forests

Forests can help mitigate climate change, by taking in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and storing it in their biomass (tree trunks, roots, etc.). In fact, forests currently take in around 25-30% of our human-generated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

23 Nov 2020