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New Images, Footage Reveal Severe Coral Bleaching on Great Barrier Reef as UNESCO/IUCN Considers Whether to Recommend "in danger" Listing

A widespread and variable coral bleaching event driven by a marine heatwave is underway on the Great Barrier Reef as a UNESCO/IUCN monitoring mission to consider whether to recommend ‘In Danger’ listing for the Reef is in Queensland.

25 Mar 2022

Roadmap Pinpoints Research Required for Smooth Transition to Renewables

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO today released a Roadmap highlighting the research required to continue Australia’s transition to a more secure and affordable electricity system, showing that innovation can drive the integration of renewables.

25 Mar 2022

New University of Michigan Study: Electric Vehicle Fleets Could Lower Emissions, Costs

The Responsible Battery Coalition (RBC) today applauded the release of new research on improving electric delivery vehicle charging strategies from the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability.

25 Mar 2022

Recycling Metal Fuels For Future Advanced Nuclear Reactors

University of Utah engineering researchers will collaborate with a team from the Idaho National Laboratory for the development of an exciting process of innovative metal fuel recycling for nuclear reactors in the future.

By David J. Cross 24 Mar 2022

Bioenergy Production Aids in Climate Change Mitigation

Newly published research from Michigan State University shows how farmers can grow environmentally friendly biofuel crops on unproductive marginal land.

By William Alldred 24 Mar 2022

Improved Water Purification System to Decontaminate Seawater

According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report from the United Nations, nearly 4 billion out of 7.8 billion people on Earth do not have access to adequate clean water for as minimum as one month per year, painting a dismal image for the world’s water supply.

24 Mar 2022

Study Analyzes CO2 Emissions from Ships in the GL-SLS in 2019

The ships in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway (GL-SLS) has used over 500,000 tons of fuel and liberated more than 1.6 million tons (Mt) of CO2 in 2019, evaluates a new study performed at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

24 Mar 2022

Aerosols in Smoke Plumes Hundreds of Hours Old can Still Affect Climate Change

According to a study performed at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) aerosols carried in wildfire smoke plumes that are hundreds of hours old can still impact climate.

24 Mar 2022

Study: Nearly 60 Million People are Exposed to Unhealthy Levels of Vehicle-Generated Noise

A study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, assessed the levels of noise generated by road traffic and examined its impact on health in 749 European cities.

24 Mar 2022

Climate Change-Induced Forest Loss in India Could Become a Bigger Problem than Expected

Forest loss in India could become an even bigger problem than anticipated in the coming years, with new research revealing climate change has caused significant recent losses.

24 Mar 2022

Extreme Heat Affects Forest Bird Nestlings More than Their Urban Counterparts

Forest bird nestlings are significantly smaller and more likely to die as a result of extreme heat compared to their urban counterparts, reports a new study.

24 Mar 2022

Study Analyzes Sea-Level Extremes in the Red Sea

The main drivers of basin-wide sea-level extremes in the Red Sea are wind variations over the southern part of the sea, according to research on the relative contributions of surface winds and atmospheric pressure on sea-level rises in the Red Sea.

23 Mar 2022

Carbon Loss Doubled Over the Past two Decades Due to Excessive Forest Removal in the Tropics, Study Finds

Scientists from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) have discovered that tropical carbon loss has doubled for the last 20 years as a result of excessive forest removal in the tropics.

23 Mar 2022

Removing Microplastics from Wastewater with Food-Grade Plant Extracts

In a number of cuisines, okra is used as a key thickener of soups and stews. The sticky stuff from that fruit and other plants, like cactus, aloe, and psyllium, can also be used to clean water and wastewater of certain kinds of solid contaminants, as well as some pollutants that are dissolved.

23 Mar 2022