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Pushing the Boundaries of Solar Energy With Energy-Generating Rail Tracks

Swiss-based startup, Sun-Ways, has developed an innovative strategy for solar energy infrastructure that uses the space between railway tracks to deploy standard photovoltaic (PV) panels without impeding the movement of trains.

20 Mar 2023

Valuable River Deltas Highly Vulnerable to Imminent Global Environmental Change

The livelihoods of millions of people who live in river deltas, among the world's most productive lands, are at risk. Created where large rivers meet the ocean and deposit their natural sediment load, river deltas are often just a few meters above sea level.

20 Mar 2023

Strategies to Minimize the Effect of Air Pollution on the Skin

New research shows that as wildfires are increasing in frequency, intensity and extent, and affecting air quality across the U.S., they are having a detrimental effect on people with and without skin conditions.

20 Mar 2023

Study Shows the Effects of Air Pollution on Mating Behavior in Flies

Insect sexual communication relies to a significant extent on pheromones, chemical attractants that specifically allow males and females of a species to mate.

16 Mar 2023

Sampling Soot-Based Aerosol Particles to Understand How Wildfires Affect Earth’s Climate

Not many people would voluntarily fly through plumes of smoke emitted from wildfires.

15 Mar 2023

Scientists Investigate How Microplastics Alter N Availability in Soil

Plastic films are among the most significant sources of terrestrial microplastics (MPs), forming unique microbial niches in soils known as plastispheres.

13 Mar 2023

Estimating the Amount of Small Plastics in the Ocean Surface Layer

According to recent research carried out by Marcus Eriksen of the 5 Gyres Institute, USA, and co-workers, a worldwide dataset of ocean plastic pollution between 1979 and 2019 discloses a rapid and widespread upsurge in ocean plastics since 2005.

9 Mar 2023

Understanding the Toxicity Mechanism of PET Exposure

PET, the plastic utilized in making bottles, is widespread in the natural environment. In a collaborative study, researchers from Leipzig University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) evaluated the negative impacts that tiny plastic PET particles can have on an organism’s metabolism and development.

9 Mar 2023

Impact of Microplastic Waste on the Marine Environment is not Well Understood, Say Scientists

As millions of tonnes a year of microplastic waste mounts in marine environments, Flinders University scientists warn the ramifications to wildlife, food webs and human health are still little understood.

9 Mar 2023