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New Method Uses Bacteria to Trap and Eliminate Microplastics from Environment

Recently at the Annual Conference of the Microbiology Society, Yang Liu, a scientist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, presented a new method to capture and recover microplastics.

29 Apr 2021

China Experienced More Serious Disasters in 2020 Due to Rainstorms, Flooding

Recently, the National Climate Center (NCC) of China completed a report that offers an authoritative evaluation of China’s climate in 2020.

29 Apr 2021

Fair and Just Climate Policy in Developing Countries Could Help Reduce Extreme Poverty

Ambitious climate policies could help to reduce extreme poverty in developing countries.

28 Apr 2021

Study Calculates Economic and Environmental Costs of Renewable Fuels Standard Mandates

New studies from the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) shed more light on the economic and environmental costs of mandates in the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), a federal program to expand the nation's biofuels sector.

28 Apr 2021

Tropical Defaunation Poses Threat to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

The current loss of biological diversity is unprecedented and species extinctions exceed the estimated background rate many times over.

28 Apr 2021

Persuasive Strategy to Make Consumers Go Green

Shopping habits and escalating consumption of many consumers are inflicting a heavy environmental toll, and while the majority of customers seem hesitant to act "green" on their own, companies are increasingly expected to implement effective eco-friendly tactics.

28 Apr 2021

Scientific Classification of Oak Forests in Republic of Tatarstan Elucidates the Region's Climate Change

Scientific classifications of forest vegetation on the territory of the former USSR, including the Republic of Tatarstan, previously used the dominant approach, traditional for northern countries, taking into account the dominance degree of one or another species in the main tree layer, or similarity in the composition of subordinate layers with the identification of cycles and series of associations.

28 Apr 2021

Combined Effect of Ocean Warming and Fishing Affects the Viability of Global Fish Stock

The combined effect of rapid ocean warming and the practice of targeting big fish is affecting the viability of wild populations and global fish stock says new research by the University of Melbourne and the University of Tasmania.

28 Apr 2021

Novel Solar-Driven Desalination Unit Could Resolve World’s Freshwater Scarcity

Although Earth has a vast amount of water, a major portion of it is non-potable seawater. Freshwater makes up just about 2.5% of the total. Many places around the world hence experience acute water scarcities.

28 Apr 2021

Study Demonstrates High, Very Specific Species Diversity of the Deep-Sea

A new study compared 20 deep-sea basins in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, demonstrating for the first time the extremely high and also highly specific species diversity of the deep sea.

28 Apr 2021

Vertical Turbine Design Far More Efficient than Traditional Turbines in Large Scale Wind Farms

The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines.

27 Apr 2021

Australia's Airports can be Ideal Hosts for Solar Electricity Production

A new study has found Australia's government-owned airports could produce enough electricity to power 136,000 homes, if they had large-scale rooftop solar systems installed.

27 Apr 2021

Gov. Doug Burgum Signs New Bill to Accelerate Efforts for Developing Low-Emission Technologies

Gov. Doug Burgum today signed legislation creating a Clean Sustainable Energy Fund to support low-emission technology projects and help provide a long-term, viable path forward for the state’s critical energy industry.

27 Apr 2021

Transforming Corn Stover into Activated Carbon for Use in Water Treatment

Corn is America's top agricultural crop, and also one of its most wasteful. About half the harvest--stalks, leaves, husks, and cobs-- remains as waste after the kernels have been stripped from the cobs.

27 Apr 2021

Ozone Pollution Falls in Germany Due to Reduction in Nitrogen Oxide Emissions

Summer is the ozone season: The harmful gas forms at ground level on hot, sunny days. In recent years, however, the rise in ozone levels over the summer months has not been as pronounced in Germany as it was previously.

27 Apr 2021