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ANSTO’s National Science Week Hackathon will Capture Some Big Ideas from School Kids on How to Manage Climate Change

National Science Week kicks off 13 August this year with the theme ‘deep blue’ centring on protecting the future of our oceans and its inhabitants.

4 Aug 2020

Calculating a Gap in Atmospheric Chemistry

Volatile organic hydrocarbons from road traffic, agriculture, refrigerants and solvents can turn into particles which lead to cloud formation. In Finland, Lukas Pichelstorfer is working on simulation models in order to understand how gases released by human activities react in the atmosphere and how this affects climate and air quality.

3 Aug 2020

Biocrusts are Important for Supporting World’s Shrinking Water Supplies

A global meta-analysis led by UNSW scientists shows tiny organisms that cover desert soils - so-called biocrusts - are critically important for supporting the world's shrinking water supplies.

3 Aug 2020

Study Provides Conclusive Evidence that Ecosystem Decay is Pervasive

Leipzig/Halle. Biodiversity's ongoing global decline has prompted policies to protect and restore habitats to minimize animal and plant extinctions.

30 Jul 2020

Climate Change, Over-Cultivation Affect Biomass of Small Animals in Soil

Nowadays, life in the soil must contend with several problems at once.

29 Jul 2020

Shifts in Diversity of Soil Microbes Could Influence Carbon Use Efficiency

In what they believe is the first study of its kind, researchers led by postdoctoral researcher Luiz A.

29 Jul 2020

Study Sheds New Light on Ecosystem Services Provided by Cycad Plants

A study published in the June 2020 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Horticulturae shows that cycads, which are in decline and among the world's most threatened group of plants, provide an important service to their neighboring organisms.

28 Jul 2020

New Estimate Presents Important Milestone for Global Carbon Cycle Studies

Regional carbon budgets should be highly accurate to notify land-based mitigation policy and to track the progress in the mitigation path.

27 Jul 2020

Products Containing Sunscreen can Damage the Ecosystem

A Swansea University project exploring how to use algae to create the next generation of sunscreens has now teamed up with an award-winning skincare firm to help develop the idea.

27 Jul 2020

Extreme Weather can Disrupt Foundational Aspects of Arctic Ecosystems

Alaska is getting wetter. A new study spells out what that means for the permafrost that underlies about 85% of the state, and the consequences for Earth's global climate.

27 Jul 2020