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Study Sheds Light on How Familiarity Impacts Survival of Social Fishes

It's good to have friends. Most humans have experienced social anxiety on some level during their lives. We all know the feeling - we show up to a party thinking it is going to be chock full of friends, only to find nearly all total strangers.

21 Jul 2021

Experts Call for New Commitments, Actions to Protect and Restore Coral Reefs

An international group of researchers representing thousands of coral scientists across the globe is calling for new commitments and actions by the world's policymakers to protect and restore coral reefs.

21 Jul 2021

Researchers Develop Sustainable One-Pot Process for Plastic Production

Tremendous efforts have been put forth by industries to attain sustainability, but plastics (or polymers) are mostly manufactured with non-renewable fossil fuels. Meanwhile, scientists have now come up with a feasible process to produce biobased acrylate resins.

21 Jul 2021

Paleo Proxies Provide Insights on Heat and Freshwater Changes in Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is experiencing a higher level of warming than other ocean basins for the past five to six decades.

21 Jul 2021

Green Hydrogen Systems Electrolysers Chosen for a Pioneering Green Hydrogen Production Project in Germany

Green Hydrogen Systems, a leading provider of efficient pressurised alkaline electrolysers used in onsite hydrogen production based on renewable electricity, has today signed a supply agreement with Wenger Engineering for delivering electrolyser units for a green hydrogen production project in Germany.

From Green Hydrogen Systems 21 Jul 2021

No Excuse to Continue Reliance on Fossil Fuels, Says Leading Nano-Technologist

One of the leading thinkers in nano-science has called on the energy materials community to help finally put an end to the world's reliance on fossil fuels.

21 Jul 2021

NextGen Consortium Targets ScotWind Success

A group of leading offshore wind companies and funds have today announced their joint participation in Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind leasing process.

21 Jul 2021

Using Archeological Digs and the Palaeoclimate Record to Study Climate Change Events

Throughout history, people of different cultures and stages of evolution have found ways to adapt, with varying success, to the gradual warming of the environment they live in.

20 Jul 2021

Major Drought and Fire in Amazonian Forests Killed Billions of Trees, Plants

A major drought and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest killed billions of trees and plants and turned one of the world's largest carbon sinks into one of its biggest polluters.

20 Jul 2021

Stony Corals may Experience Changes in Distribution and Habitat Loss Due to Climate Change

The climate crisis will lead to changes in distribution and habitat loss of stony corals in the tropical Atlantic, shows a new study published by the open access publisher Frontiers.

20 Jul 2021

Clouds Likely to Enhance Global Heating, Satellite Data Reveals

A new approach to analyse satellite measurements of Earth's cloud cover reveals that clouds are very likely to enhance global heating.

20 Jul 2021

Research Weighs the Economic, Environmental Pros and Cons of Shorter Arctic Shipping Routes

The economic and environmental pros and cons of melting Arctic ice creating shorter shipping routes through the polar region are weighed up in ground-breaking research from UCL experts in energy and transport.

20 Jul 2021

Study Pinpoints Climate Damage due to Wild Pigs Across Five Continents

Wilds pigs are responsible for the release of about 4.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide worldwide every year. This is because they uproot carbon sequestered in the soil. The amount released is almost equal to emissions from 1.1 million cars.

20 Jul 2021

Wrap’s Food and Drink Industry Agreement to Halve Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030

With only four months until COP26, the UK has taken a bold step forward in reducing the impact food has on the natural world with a number of ambitious changes to its ground-breaking Courtauld Commitment voluntary agreement.

20 Jul 2021

Individual Protected Areas in Amazonia Show Variation in Fighting Deforestation and Carbon Emissions

While tropical forests remain threatened and their future is uncertain, the importance of understanding how well individual protected areas avoid deforestation increases.

19 Jul 2021