The gypsy moth is an indigenous species that infects oak forests in Central and Southern Europe, Asia and Africa. The larvae’s voracious appetite poses a major environmental problem because the species can completely defoliate trees and cause health problems to humans and animals in the form of allergies and skin irritation such as dermatitis and hives, as is widely reported after contact with caterpillars.
For the first time, new research has mapped the intertidal coral reefs of the Rowley Shoals off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia using drone technology and state-of-the-art analytical techniques.
In a study that was published in the scholarly journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have created a technique that makes it possible to measure ice melt on a daily basis for the first time.
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan, under the direction of Ryuhei Nakamura, described a novel technique that reduces the amount of iridium required for the reaction by 95% without affecting the rate at which hydrogen is produced in a study published in Science.
Local decision-makers looking for ways to reduce the impact of heat waves on their communities have a valuable new capability at their disposal: a new study on vegetation resilience.
The University of Essex just opened a £3 million plant lab to fight climate change by developing new crops that can thrive in hotter and drier conditions.
Reforestation models have been over exaggerated -- and not by a small factor -- but by as many as three times of a factor. The goal set by the Paris Agreement in 2015 for countries to limit their global warming to 1.5 degrees is now close to being surpassed.
Chemical engineers from Hokkaido University's Center for Advanced Research of Energy and Materials have developed a technique to recover phosphorous from sewage sludge by heat treatment and chemical treatment, which may help with the issue of phosphorus ores' declining supply.
Florida is projected to lose 3.5 million acres of land to development by 2070. A new study highlights how Florida can buffer itself against both climate change and population pressures by conserving the remaining 8 million acres of "opportunity areas" within the Florida Wildlife Corridor (FLWC), the only designated statewide corridor in the U.S.
In a recent paper published in the journal Chemosphere, researchers from the University of Exeter revealed that high levels of plastic pollution can fatally impact the embryos of various ocean animals.
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