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Researchers Estimate the Recycling Efficiency of Marine Microbes

A team of researchers from the Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences (Budweis, Czechia), MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen (Germany), and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Bremen, Germany) have estimated that these chemoautotrophs recycle approximately 5 per cent of the carbon and phosphorus assimilated by marine algae and release terragrams (1012 g) of dissolved organics to the ocean interior each year.

13 May 2020

Low-Cost, Simple Method to Create Biofuel, Fertilizer from Seaweed

Scientists in the United Kingdom have designed an easy and affordable technique to produce fertilizers and biofuels from seaweed, while eliminating plastic from the oceans and cleaning up tourist beaches in Central America and the Caribbean.

12 May 2020

Study Finds Temperate Forests Hold Unique Genetic Lines of Trees

Temperate and tropical dry forests - not just rainforests - are home to thousands of unique tree species, a new study reveals.

7 May 2020

Logging of Native Forests Increases Risk and Severity of Wildfires

Logging of native forests increases the risk and severity of fire and likely had a profound effect on the recent, catastrophic Australian bushfires, according to new research.

6 May 2020

Study Finds Severe Coral Loss is Due to Increase in Fish Biomass, Productivity

Research on the Great Barrier Reef has found severe coral loss to be associated with substantial increases in the size of large, long-living herbivorous fish.

6 May 2020

Study Analyzes Positive, Negative Effects of Tourism on Marine Environment

A study has shown how ecotourism in the Philippines has transformed people's attitudes towards marine conservation.

5 May 2020

Lack of Land for Biodiversity Offsetting Could Hinder Conservation Goals

Developers may struggle to find enough land to offset the biodiversity impacts of future development, according to a University of Queensland study.

30 Apr 2020

Deep-Sea Mining Impacts Ecosystem Functions and Smallest Seabed Inhabitants

Polymetallic nodules and crusts cover many thousands of square kilometres of the world's deep-sea floor. They contain mainly manganese and iron, but also the valuable metals nickel, cobalt and copper as well as some of the high-tech metals of the rare earths.

30 Apr 2020

Plans Unveiled for 24/7 Zero Net Emissions Baseload Power for NSW - Interviews and B-ROLL Available

Hunter Energy today announced its plan to recommission the 151 MW Redbank Power plant in the NSW Hunter Valley to operate on 100 per cent biomass fuels and turn it into Australia’s largest biomass green, baseload power station.

30 Apr 2020

Climate Change Undoes Decades of Knowledge About Coral Reef Ecosystems

Climate change and warming seas are transforming tropical coral reefs and undoing decades of knowledge about how to protect these delicate and vital ecosystems.

26 Apr 2020