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Researchers Highlight Ways to Alleviate Anthropogenic Noise Affecting Marine Animals

Humans have altered the ocean soundscape by drowning out natural noises relied upon by many marine animals, from shrimp to sharks

7 Apr 2021

New Economical Technology Leverages Excess Pressure on Power Grid to Produce Energy

In recent years, pressure-based irrigation techniques have substituted conventional ones, thereby enhancing water efficiency but increasing the dependence on energy. This has led to advances and innovations in technology that have facilitated agricultural activity.

7 Apr 2021

Discovery of Heat-Sensing Gene in Plants Could Help Tune Their Temperature Response

Global warming can decrease crop yields by one-third by 2050. Scientists from the University of California, Riverside have discovered a gene that could reverse this effect.

7 Apr 2021

Tibetan Plateau may Warm Faster in Future than Projected by Climate Models

Over the last few decades, the Tibetan Plateau, called “the roof of the world,” has warmed up more quickly compared to the global average.

7 Apr 2021

World’s First Hydrogen Cargo Vessel Set for Paris Debut

The European innovation project Flagships will deploy the world’s first commercial cargo transport vessel operating on hydrogen, plying the river Seine in Paris. Commercial operations are set to commence in 2021.

7 Apr 2021

Buddle Nurseries Set to Become UK’s First Carbon Negative Nursery Group

An innovative nursery group is aiming to be the most environmentally friendly in the country.

7 Apr 2021

Study Assesses Strategies for Reducing Beef Production Emissions

A comprehensive assessment of 12 different strategies for reducing beef production emissions worldwide found that industry can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by as much as 50% in certain regions, with the most potential in the United States and Brazil.

6 Apr 2021

Geoengineering Earth's Atmosphere: Potential Effects of Climate Intervention on Ecology

Nine of the hottest years in human history have occurred in the past decade. Without a major shift in this climate trajectory, the future of life on Earth is in question, which poses a new question: Should humans, whose fossil fueled society is driving climate change, use technology to put the brakes on global warming?

6 Apr 2021

Fish-Oil Based Polyurethane Could Help Meet the Need for Sustainable Plastics

Polyurethanes, a type of plastic, are nearly everywhere -- in shoes, clothes, refrigerators and construction materials. But these highly versatile materials can have a major downside.

6 Apr 2021

Ozone Pollution Decreases Crop Yields in Maize

Although stratospheric ozone protects us by filtering out the sun's ultraviolet radiation, tropospheric ozone is a harmful pollutant.

6 Apr 2021

Increased Lightning Storms may Amplify Arctic Warming

Back in 2019, the National Weather Service in Alaska had reportedly detected the first-familiar lightning strikes within 300 miles of the North Pole.

6 Apr 2021

Study Finds Drastic Fluctuations in Atmospheric Oxygen After its Early Appearance

A new study reveals that the permanent increase in oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere, which enabled the emergence of life as it is known, occurred 100 million years later than considered earlier.

6 Apr 2021

Study Shows Effect of Changing Climate Conditions on Colombia’s Coffee Production

For people who begin their day with a cup of coffee, there is a good chance that their morning beverage came from Colombia.

6 Apr 2021

A Safe and Cheap Technology for the Disinfection of Packaged Eggs

Scientists from Russia have designed a secured, trustworthy, and cheap packed eggs surface disinfection technology. This technology helps destroy bacteria, such as salmonella, present on eggshells.

5 Apr 2021

Researchers Study Causes of Consumer Resistance to Sustainability Interventions

Researchers from University of Queensland, University of Melbourne, and Universidad Finis Terrae published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that studies consumer resistance to a nationwide plastic bag ban implemented in Chile in 2019.

5 Apr 2021