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Researchers Propose Complementary Strategies to Improve Food and Nutrition Security

The nation needs to strengthen and increase funding for federal nutrition research and improve cross-governmental coordination in order to accelerate discoveries, grow the economy, and - most importantly - improve public health, food/nutrition security, and population resilience, according to a high-level group of research, policy, and government experts.

21 Jul 2020

New Strategy Helps Destroy Bacteria in Wastewater Treatment Plants

A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and free-floating antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants.

21 Jul 2020

Changes in Whales’ Distribution Patterns are Linked to Ocean Warming

Researchers using passive acoustic recordings of whale calls to track their movements have found that four of the six baleen whale species found in the western North Atlantic Ocean -- humpback, sei, fin and blue whales -- have changed their distribution patterns in the past decade.

21 Jul 2020

Scientists Explore How Sustainable Farming Practices can Reduce Emissions

Argonne researchers quantify how to reduce emissions by farms changing their practices and adopting novel technologies.

21 Jul 2020

New Technology to Mass-Produce Aviation-Grade Fuels from Wood Wastes

The technology crucial for achieving the mass-production of bio-aviation fuels has been developed by a Korea-based research group.

21 Jul 2020

Catalysts Made from Copper Oxide are Superior to Purely Metallic Ones

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Caltech have explained that copper previously bound with oxygen is better at transforming carbon dioxide into renewable fuels compared to copper that was never bound to oxygen.

20 Jul 2020

Study Shows Vegetation in Streams can Actually Buffer Water Levels

'Water plants are a nuisance in streams, blocking the flow. You should remove them'.

20 Jul 2020

Study Finds it is Highly Challenging to Achieve Current Emissions Goal

Graham Weale, honorary professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and at the Centre for Environmental Management, Resources and Energy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum has undertaken an independent study "EU 2030 Emissions Target - A Reality Check".

20 Jul 2020

New Non-Invasive Tool to Sample Contaminants in Bee Hives

Honeybee colonies are bioindicators of environmental contamination in the area, since they get coated in everything that there is in the environment, including pollutants, and they end up taking it all back to their bee hives.

20 Jul 2020

Study Investigates Storage, Distribution, Quality of Water in the Landscape

In low precipitation periods - where and how is the limited available water distributed and what possibilities are there for improving retention in the soil and the landscape? Doerthe Tetzlaff and her team from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries have discovered that vegetation has a major influence on this.

20 Jul 2020

Study Summarizes Information on Tiny Snails in Eastern Sector of the Arctic

Shell-bearing microgastropods are snails whose size is less than five millimetres. They represent one of the least studied groups of metazoan living organisms in the oceans.

20 Jul 2020

Agrochemicals can Increase Transmission of Schistosome Worm

Widespread use of pesticides and other agrochemicals can speed the transmission of the debilitating disease schistosomiasis, while also upsetting the ecological balances in aquatic environments that prevent infections, finds a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

20 Jul 2020