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Texas A&M AgriLife Research Project Aims to Improve Climate Adaptability of Crops

With crops, farmers will adapt — they always have and always will. To help this adaptation, however, a Texas A&M AgriLife research project has used artificial intelligence modeling to determine what traits cultivars will need to be successful under changing climate conditions.

19 Oct 2021

$105 Million DOE Funding to Support Small Businesses Working on Clean Energy and Climate Change Solutions

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $105 million in funding for small businesses to pursue the deployment of clean energy technologies, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to building a clean energy economy and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

19 Oct 2021

Ocean Fronts and Eddies Likely Cause Changes to both Weather and Climate

The adage “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor’s warning” indeed remains true. The relationship between atmosphere and ocean can either be smooth sailing or stormy.

19 Oct 2021

Fight to Combat Coastal Erosion Along Adelaide’s Metropolitan Coast

The fight to combat ongoing coastal erosion along Adelaide’s metropolitan coast will be helped by the deployment of three sophisticated buoys to measure real-time wave data in Gulf St Vincent.

19 Oct 2021

Researchers Receive NSF Grant to Study How Katabatic Winds Impact Antarctic Ice Sheet

Scott T. Salesky, an assistant professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, is the principal investigator of a recently awarded $530,297 grant through the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs to study how katabatic winds – cold, dense winds flowing down a sloping surface – impact snow transport and ultimately contribute to the growth of the Antarctic ice sheet.

18 Oct 2021

Fighting Floods with Natural and Nature-Based Approaches

When Hurricane Ida roared to shore in Louisiana last month, a system of flood gates, levees, and pumps largely kept the water out of New Orleans.

18 Oct 2021

Unlined Disposal Pits Threaten Groundwater Resource in San Joaquin Valley

Researchers from the energy science and policy research institute, Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers (PSE) for Healthy Energy have shown that dumping of more than 16 billion barrels of oil and gas wastewater into unlined pits over a five-decade period has added carcinogens, salts, and other toxins into regional aquifers.

18 Oct 2021