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Protecting Drinking Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems from Salt Pollution

Doctors often tell us, "cut back on your salt." And just like too much dietary salt is bad for blood pressure, too much salt in our nation's streams, lakes, and reservoirs threatens ecosystem health and the security of our nation's drinking water and food supplies.

22 Dec 2020

Current Food System Sytems Could Drive Rapid and Widespread Biodiversity Loss

The global food system could drive rapid and widespread biodiversity loss if not changed, new research has found.

22 Dec 2020

Coastal 'Bright Spots' Identified to Repair Global Marine Ecosystems

CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has identified coastal 'bright spots' to repair marine ecosystems globally, paving the way to boost biodiversity, local economies and human wellbeing.

22 Dec 2020

Climate Warming Linked with Prolonged Time Interval Between Leaf-Out and Flowering in Temperate Trees

An international team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang A & F University and the University of Eastern Finland have found that regardless of whether flowering or leaf unfolding occurred first in a species, the first event advanced more than the second over the last seven decades.

22 Dec 2020

Novel Method to Predict Global Warming with Lower Uncertainties

According to a new study, the threshold for hazardous global warming will probably be encountered between 2027 and 2042, which is a considerably narrower window compared to the predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the period between now and 2052.

22 Dec 2020

CRISPR/Cas9 System Could Support Efforts to Conserve Fragile Reef Ecosystems

Researchers can now use the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system to gain insights into, and perhaps enhance, the response of corals to the environmental stresses caused by climate change.

22 Dec 2020

Scientists Shine Light on ‘Bright Spots’ to Restore Coastal Ecosystems

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has identified coastal ‘bright spots’ to repair marine ecosystems globally, paving the way to boost biodiversity, local economies and human wellbeing.

22 Dec 2020

Research Shows Arctic Gains and Tropical Losses Due to Earth’s Changing Climate

More plants and longer growing seasons in the northern latitudes have converted parts of Alaska, Canada and Siberia to deeper shades of green. Some studies translate this Arctic greening to a greater global carbon uptake. But new research shows that as Earth's climate is changing, increased carbon absorption by plants in the Arctic is being offset by a corresponding decline in the tropics.

21 Dec 2020

Roadmap for Renewable Power Aligns Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals

While the pressures of climate change bring a sense of urgency to renewable energy development, a new study serves as a roadmap toward uniting the goals of a low-carbon future with that of ecological sustainability and conservation.

21 Dec 2020

Study Shows Rise in Potentially Damaging Surface Ozone Levels in Lockdown

Less traffic on the roads during the first lockdown led to a reduction in air pollution but may have caused potentially damaging surface ozone levels to rise, a new study has revealed.

21 Dec 2020

Land Ecosystems are Becoming Less Reliable in Climate Change Mitigation

Land ecosystems currently play a key role in mitigating climate change. The more carbon dioxide (CO2) plants and trees absorb during photosynthesis, the process they use to make food, the less CO2 remains trapped in the atmosphere where it can cause temperatures to rise.

21 Dec 2020

New Tool can Help Predict Where to Reforest After Megafires

In the aftermath of megafires that devastated forests of the western United States, attention turns to whether forests will regenerate on their own or not. Forest managers can now look to a newly enhanced, predictive mapping tool to learn where forests are likely to regenerate on their own and where replanting efforts may be beneficial.

21 Dec 2020

Study Indicates Sea-Level Rise Could be Higher than Predicted

According to a new report, if climate change is not challenged, sea levels may rise higher than present estimates by 2100.

21 Dec 2020

Ammonia Fuel Cells for Deep-Sea Shipping a Key Piece in the Zero-Emission Puzzle

Interest in ammonia-powered fuel cells for the maritime sector is growing, but stakeholders have been hesitant to commit to investments in large-scale systems. Now the ShipFC project, granted funding from EU’s Research and Innovation program Horizon 2020 under its Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), is aiming to secure a place for ammonia in the future of deep-sea shipping.

21 Dec 2020

Discovery Enables Biological Synthesis of High-Yield Green Fuels

Using an unusual, light-dependent enzyme and a newly discovered enzymatic mechanism, researchers from Aarhus University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have enabled the biological synthesis of high-yield industry relevant production of climate neutral drop-in fuels from biowaste.

18 Dec 2020