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Ocean Currents are Crucial for Understanding Global Climate

Using state-of-the-art ocean robots and scientific sensors attached to seals, researchers in Marine Sciences at the University of Gothenburg have for the first time observed small and energetic ocean currents in the Southern Ocean.

29 Jun 2020

Offshore Wind Farm in Maryland can Become a Stop-Over for Migrating Fish

For the endangered Atlantic sturgeon and the commercially and recreationally important striped bass, the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia coastal shelf serves as an important spring and fall "flyway."

29 Jun 2020

TREC Launches New Online Tool to Incentivize Electric Vehicles

Electric bikes (e-bikes) are quickly becoming common in U.S. cities and suburbs, but we still have a ways to go compared to our neighbors across the Atlantic. In recent years, e-bike sales have steadily increased with unprecedented growth in Europe, especially in the Netherlands.

29 Jun 2020

Reservoirs in Ancient Maya City Contain High Levels of Pollution

Reservoirs in the heart of an ancient Maya city were so polluted with mercury and algae that the water likely was undrinkable.

29 Jun 2020

Scientists Develop New Model to Simulate Light Harvesting Mechanism

When sunlight shining on a leaf changes rapidly, plants must protect themselves from the ensuing sudden surges of solar energy.

26 Jun 2020

Wolf Spiders Respond to Changing Climatic Conditions

Climate change leads to longer growing seasons in the Arctic. A new study, which has just been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, show that predators like wolf spiders respond to the changing conditions and have been able to produce two clutches of offspring during the short Arctic summer.

26 Jun 2020

Discovery of “Halo Effect” may Prove Useful in Ecological Restoration

Eelgrass, a species of seagrass named for its long slippery texture, is one of nature's superheroes. It offers shade and camouflage for young fish, helps anchor shorelines, and provides food and habitat for many marine species.

26 Jun 2020

Afforestation Incentive Mechanisms can be Detrimental to the Environment

'Through a counterfactual analysis, we showed that between 1986 and 2011 the incentives to afforestation in Chile caused an increase in forest plantations, but reduced the extent of native forests', explains the main conclusions of the paper Impacts of Chilean forest subsidies on forest cover, carbon and biodiversity, published by the journal Nature Sustainability.

26 Jun 2020

Hydrologic and Vegetative Measures can Create Bird Habitat

In a new study led by scientists at Point Blue Conservation Science and in collaboration with The Institute for Bird Populations, authors evaluated the successes of mountain meadow restorations by analyzing eight years of bird data collected by field biologists.

26 Jun 2020