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Mapping the Environmental Impact of Renewable Energy Plants

At the University of Southampton, scientists have successfully plotted the global sites of top renewable energy locations, offering a useful resource to help predict their possible impact on the environment.

5 May 2020

New, Efficient Module to Split Water to Produce Hydrogen Fuel

Researchers at Rice University have developed an efficient and inexpensive device that breaks down water to generate hydrogen fuel.

5 May 2020

Method for Recycling Used Nuclear Fuel Could Reduce Waste

Engineering researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a simple, proliferation-resistant technique for isolating different constituents of nuclear waste.

5 May 2020

Study Aims to Better Perceive How Climate Change in Arctic Impacts People

For people who live in the Arctic, sea ice that forms along shorelines is a vital resource that connects isolated communities and provides access to hunting and fishing grounds.

5 May 2020

Study Analyzes Impacts of Implementing Water Transfer or Waterway Projects

The study "The environmental costs of water transfers", published in Nature Sustaintability, studies the proposals for water roads to face the water crisis that affects Chile.

5 May 2020

Study Estimates Increase in Irrigated Areas by 2050 than Predicted Before

The amount of farmland around the world that will need to be irrigated in order to feed an estimated global population of 9 billion people by 2050 could be up to several billion acres, far higher than scientists currently project, according to new research.

5 May 2020

Warming Ocean Environment Could Increase Fisheries-Related Conflicts

A team of experts, led by a University of Rhode Island researcher, examined how climate change is affecting the ocean environment and found that the changing conditions will likely result in increased fisheries-related conflicts and create new challenges in the management of global fisheries.

5 May 2020

Climate Change Influences Locations of Where Deadly Storms Occur

While the global average number of tropical cyclones each year has not budged from 86 over the last four decades, climate change has been influencing the locations of where these deadly storms occur, according to new NOAA-led research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

5 May 2020

Study Analyzes Relationships Between Climate and Corn, Sorghum, Soybean Yield

If warming continues unabated in the Midwest, in 50 years we can expect the best conditions for corn and soybean production to have shifted from Iowa and Illinois to Minnesota and the Dakotas, according to Penn State researchers.

5 May 2020

Sea Level Rise will Cause Land Area to be Impacted by Flood Mechanisms

Today and as sea level continues to rise in the future, extreme high tide events cause Honolulu, Hawai'i's primary urban center to experience flooding not just from water washing directly over the shoreline, but also from groundwater inundation as the water table is pushed toward the surface, and reverse flow through the municipal drainage system.

5 May 2020