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New Study Shows Home-Delivered Meal Kits are Greener than Formerly Believed

Meal kit services, which provide a box of pre-portioned ingredients and a chef-selected recipe to one’s door, are massively popular but get a bad environmental rap because of perceived packaging waste.

23 Apr 2019

A Sustainable Method to Boost Seed Oil Yield in Crops

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore have created a sustainable way to show a new genetic alteration that can boost the yield of natural oil in seeds by up to 15% in laboratory settings.

22 Apr 2019

Researchers Solve the Structure of Key Enzyme for Sustainable Recycling of PET Polymer

The molecular structure of a key enzyme called MHETase has now been solved by researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum-Berlin (HZB) and the University of Greifswald and Helmholtz-Zentrum-Berlin (HZB) at BESSY II.

15 Apr 2019

Study Reveals Plant Ingredients are not Sustainable Fishmeal Substitutes

Commercial fish feed manufacturers are progressively switching fishmeal – a powder made from fish – for crop-based ingredients in a move compelled by economic incentives and a desire to enhance the sustainability of aquafeed.

15 Apr 2019

Current International Target for the Protected Area Estate Fails, Argue Scientists

An international research reported in the journal Science on April 11th, 2019 claims that the existing international target for the protected area estate, approved by more than 190 countries, is failing.

12 Apr 2019

Study Reveals Impact of Severe Drought on Ozone Pollution

California underwent its worst drought on record between 2011 and 2015, with a parching combination of low precipitation and high temperatures.

11 Apr 2019

MIT Researchers Develop New Method for Synthesizing Epoxides Found in Textiles, Plastics, and Pharmaceuticals

Industrial manufacturing of products, like steel, iron, and plastics, is believed to be the greatest source of energy consumption worldwide.

10 Apr 2019

New Theory for Boosting Agriculture Sustainability

Diversity rules out monotony: a colorful patchwork of small, variedly used plots can offer benefits to agriculture and nature. This is the result of a new research by the University of Würzburg.

9 Apr 2019

Long-Term Atmospheric CO2 Data Show Increase in Carbon Absorption by Northern Hemisphere Vegetation

Based on long-standing data on atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, an international team of researchers coordinated by the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (CEA/CNRS/UVSQ) have found that vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere is capturing increasing quantities of the CO2 generated by human activities, thus partially counterbalancing the effects of global warming.

8 Apr 2019

Study Shows How Peru’s Rainforest Conservation Efforts can Become More Effective

In an effort to protect the rainforest, the Peruvian government had introduced a program several years ago. Conversely, a recent analysis carried out by the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn has demonstrated that its impact is negligible. However, the investigators also have some good news—the effectiveness can possibly be increased by three measures.

8 Apr 2019