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Sydney Flicks the Switch to 100% Green Power

From today, The City of Sydney will be powered using 100 per cent renewable electricity, generated from wind and solar farms in regional NSW.

1 Jul 2020

Local and Landscape Level is Key to Promote the Habitat of Wild Bees

Sowing strips of wildflowers along conventional cereal fields and the increased density of flowers in organic farming encourage bumblebees as well as solitary wild bees and hoverflies.

1 Jul 2020

New Study Quantifies the Volume of Plastic from European Countries

New research from NUI Galway and the University of Limerick has for the first time quantified the volume of plastic from European countries that contributes to ocean littering from exported recycling.

1 Jul 2020

Roadside Hedges Reduce Pollution Exposure for Humans

Roadside hedges take a hit to their health while reducing pollution exposure for humans, a new study from the University of Surrey finds.

1 Jul 2020

Researchers Solve a Controversial Questions on Photosynthesis

By developing innovative methods to visualize energy changes in subcellular compartments in live plants, the team of Dr Boon Leong LIM, Associate Professor of the School of Biological Sciences of The University of Hong Kong, recently solved a controversial question in photosynthesis: what is the source of NADH for mitochondria to generate ATP? The results were just published in the journal Nature Communications.

1 Jul 2020

Ecosystems do Not Respond Universally to Fishing

In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers focused on what can happen to ocean ecosystems when fishing pressure increases or decreases, and how this differs between tropical to temperate marine ecosystems.

1 Jul 2020

Study Calls for Economic and Disaster-Mitigating Measures to Conserve Coral Reefs

Prediction of storm surges and peak wave heights using advanced high-resolution modeling reveals the important role of offshore reefs in protecting coastal zones.

1 Jul 2020

Tissue Succulence Engineering Method can Prove Useful for Food and Bioenergy Crops

After several years of experimentation, scientists have engineered thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, to behave like a succulent, improving water-use efficiency, salinity tolerance and reducing the effects of drought.

1 Jul 2020

Study Highlights Warming Trends of the South Pole

The South Pole has been warming at more than three times the global average over the past 30 years, according to research led by Ohio University professor Ryan Fogt and OHIO alumnus Kyle Clem.

1 Jul 2020

Climate Change and Other Human Influences are Threatening Survival of Corals

Corals are "part animal, part plant, and part rock - and difficult to figure out, despite being studied for centuries," says Philippe Laissue of University of Essex, a Whitman Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory.

1 Jul 2020

Study Shows Microplastic Pollution is Highly Concentrated in Coastal Habitats

Microplastic pollution in marine environments is concentrated most highly in coastal habitats, especially fjords and estuaries, according to a new review article published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin.

1 Jul 2020

Accelerating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Contribute to Global Average Temperatures

Over the past 150 years, global warming has more than undone the global cooling that occurred over the past six millennia, according to a major study published June 30 in Nature Research's Scientific Data, "Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach."

1 Jul 2020