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Water Scarcity May Worsen in 80% of Croplands Globally Due to Climate Change

According to a new research article in the AGU journal Earth’s Future, agricultural water scarcity is anticipated to increase in over 80% of the croplands across the world by the year 2050.

6 May 2022

Eco-Friendly Burgers: Substituting Beef with Microbial Protein

Researchers claim that replacing meat products with a microbial protein - a meat alternative produced in fermentation tanks - could reduce deforestation by 50% by the year 2050.

5 May 2022

Researchers Suggest Solutions for Crops Against Aflatoxin

Researchers at Michigan State University are predicting the impact of climate change on crops such as maize as weather patterns throughout the world, especially the Midwest, continue to shift.

5 May 2022

Weather Radar Networks Can Help Minimize Wind Energy Impacts on Nocturnally Migrating Birds

The development of wind energy is accelerating around the world in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change.

5 May 2022

Researchers Determine the Most Intense Heatwaves Across the World

A new study has disclosed that throughout the world the majority of the fierce heatwaves—and exceptionally few of these went nearly unseen several years back.

5 May 2022

Study Shows the Impact of Landslides on Glacier Melt and Movement

Using satellite imagery to study the effects of a 2019 landslide on the Amalia Glacier in Patagonia, a University of Minnesota-led research team found the landslide helped stabilize the glacier and caused it to grow by about 1,000 meters over the last three years.

5 May 2022

Methods for Slowing Climate Change Bring Dangerous Risk Tradeoffs, Study Shows

To slow down the accelerating pace of climate change, scientists are working on radical geoengineering technologies like space mirrors, ocean iron fertilization, and cirrus cloud thinning to tweak the earth's climate system.

5 May 2022

New Curtin Research Resurrects ‘Lost’ Coral Species

With about one-third of the world’s corals currently under threat of extinction due to climate change, Curtin researchers have made the encouraging discovery of a ‘lost’ species of coral that had been hidden for more than 50 years.

5 May 2022

Ocean Organism Could be Key to Animal-free Meat

A fungus-like microbe taken from the pristine waters of South Australia could prove to be a vital ingredient in making everything from nutritional supplements, medicines and biofuels to animal-free meat, according to Flinders University researchers.

5 May 2022

Save Our Seas Foundation Joins Shark Conservation Fund to Save Sharks and Secure Healthy Oceans

The Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) has joined the Shark Conservation Fund (SCF) as one of its members. Dr James Lea, the SOSF’s chief executive officer, has joined the advisory board and says of the partnership, ‘I am delighted that we are joining the Shark Conservation Fund.

5 May 2022