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Green Revolution Substantially Reduced Infant Mortality

New research from the University of California San Diego shows that since modern crop varieties were introduced in the developing world starting in 1961, they have substantially reduced infant mortality, especially for male babies and among poor households.

18 Dec 2020

New Microbial Fuel Cell System Effectively Purifies Wastewater

Scientists from Washington State University (WSU) have designed a sustainable wastewater treatment system that depends on electron-producing bacterial communities to purify the water.

18 Dec 2020

Researchers Dive into the Biogeochemistry of Oxygen-Deficient Oceans

With no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, ocean anoxic zones are areas where only microbes suited to the environment can live.

18 Dec 2020

Improving Multi-Sectoral Ocean Management To Achieve The Sustainable Development Goals

They have shown that certain multi-sectoral mechanisms, such as marine protected areas, are the most effective in reconciling the ecological, economic and social dimensions of this SDG. These results were published in the journal Nature Sustainability on 14 December 2020, and will make it possible to improve operational guidelines for the preservation of the oceans.

18 Dec 2020

Climate Change Causes Change in Global Precipitation Patterns

The Earth's climate system is largely determined by the differences in temperature between the tropics and the poles. Global warming is likely to cause global atmospheric circulation to change and progressively revert to a situation similar to that of 5,000 to 10,000 years ago.

18 Dec 2020

Grape Varieties in Dry Regions Exhibit Traits to Cope with Climate Change

Several grape-cultivating regions across the globe are expected to become too hot and dry to produce high-quality wine from conventional varieties due to the effect of climate change.

18 Dec 2020

Climate Change Could Affect Ecological Balance in Higher Altitudes

Planet Earth is getting warmer by the day, making several organisms native to lower elevations or latitudes to move higher.

18 Dec 2020

Volvo Group Begin Customer Deliveries of All-Electric Products

Launching a new generation of zero exhaust emissions products, leading French contractor Eiffage has taken delivery of an all-electric Volvo FE Electric truck and a Volvo ECR25 Electric compact excavator – becoming the first recipient of the products in France.

17 Dec 2020

BESA welcomes historic air quality verdict

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has welcomed today’s ruling at Southwark Coroner's Court that air pollution directly contributed to the death of a nine-year-old girl.

17 Dec 2020

New Model Shows How Giant Antarctic Icebergs Drift Over Time

Some icebergs that break off of Antarctica are massive - the size of New York City - but previously these floating cities of freshwater were largely ignored in climate models.

17 Dec 2020

Careful Foresight and Planning can Help Balance Climate, Economic Goals in Developing Nations

Developing nations have an opportunity to avoid long-term dependence on fossil fuel-burning infrastructure as they move toward economic stability, even if they are slow to cut carbon emissions, say the authors of a new paper in Environmental Research Letters.

17 Dec 2020

New Research on Forest Loss, Peatland Degradation can Help Quantify Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Land use and land-use change are thought to be responsible for about 23% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. But nailing down this number with certainty has been hampered by a lack of data in many key regions of the tropics where forests are being replaced by agriculture and where other activities are degrading forests.

17 Dec 2020