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Using a Space-Based Instrument to Track Air Pollution Disparities Daily

Studies have shown that pollution, whether from factories or traffic-snarled roads, disproportionately affects communities where economically disadvantaged people and Hispanic, Black and Asian people live.

23 Aug 2022

Existing Air Conditioners Could Someday Get an Upgrade with a Solid “Greener” Refrigerant

Summer is in full swing in the U.S., and people are turning up their air conditioners to beat the heat. But the hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants in these and other cooling devices are potent greenhouse gases and major drivers of climate change.

23 Aug 2022

Novel Food Sanitization Technique Makes Food Safer to Consume

Penn State researchers demonstrate how a light-based food sanitization technique could make food safer to consume.

By David J. Cross 22 Aug 2022

Stress in Bumblebee Species Linked to Increasingly Hotter and Wetter Conditions

Scientists from Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum today published two concurrent papers analysing UK bumblebee populations.

22 Aug 2022

New Model Reveals Wide-Ranging Impacts of Climate Change on Australia’s Food Supply Chains

New University of Sydney research published in Nature Food today has modelled the wide-ranging impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on Australia's food systems and supply chains, identifying potential cascading repercussions including job and income loss as well as a loss in nutrient availability and diet quality.

22 Aug 2022

Climate Change may Create Economic Inequality Between Farmers in Wheat -Exporting and -Importing Countries

Wheat is a key source of nutrition for people across the globe, providing 20% of calories and protein for 3.4 billion people worldwide. Even if we meet climate mitigation targets and stay under 2°C of warming, climate change is projected to significantly alter the yield and price of wheat in the coming years.

22 Aug 2022

Rewritten Narrative on the Evolution and Diversity of Reptiles

Reptiles enjoyed a massive coming-out party some 250 million years ago, during the conclusion of the Permian and the beginning of the Triassic.

22 Aug 2022

A New Method for Treating High-Salinity Nitrogenous Wastewater

Numerous industries produce hypersaline wastewater that contains nitrogen, which poses a serious threat to the aquatic environment.

22 Aug 2022

An Attempt to Identify Species Resistance Towards Climate Change

A recent study looks at how different mammals respond to climate change. Bears and bison are examples of long-lived, low offspring producing species that are more adaptable than small, short-lived creatures like mice and lemmings.

22 Aug 2022

Mysterious Lives of Sharks and Rays Revealed in New Study

Conservation scientists have unlocked the mysteries of how shark and ray species move up and down the ocean water column, in efforts to better understand them and secure their future.

22 Aug 2022

Could Propane Be the Secret to Greener Air Conditioning?

A recent study led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, suggests that the secret to greener air conditioning could lie in using propane, a clean-burning alternative fuel, as a refrigerant.

By David J. Cross 18 Aug 2022

Lowering the Cost of Sustainable Solar Fuel Production

The University of Cambridge researchers created flexible, ultra-thin electronics that are inspired by photosynthesis, the mechanism through which plants turn sunlight into food.

18 Aug 2022

Microplastics: A Major Threat to Food Production and Farming

Researchers at Staffordshire University are conducting studies to determine the extent of plastic pollution in agricultural soils and its global effects.

18 Aug 2022

Miami Residents Devise Solutions to Combat the Effects of Climate Change in Their Communities

The days have been unusually hot, even by Texas standards. That is how Merline Leonce, who grew up in the Gulf Coast city of Baytown, just east of Houston, describes the sweltering heat that has enveloped Miami this summer. "And the humidity," she said, "which we didn't get a lot of in Texas, makes it even worse."

18 Aug 2022