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Idaho Laboratory Joins Consortia to Efficiently Produce "Green" Hydrogen

Idaho National Laboratory is a member of two new Department of Energy research consortia charged with exploring new methods and technologies for hydrogen production.

9 Oct 2020

Study Shows How Marangoni Effect is Advantageous to Extract Freshwater from Sea

The crystallization of salt particles within different parts of the device is the most vulnerable aspect of water desalination technologies.

9 Oct 2020

Study Evaluates Day-to-Day Reliability of Solar Energy Under Climate Change

Although solar power is considered a popular form of renewable energy, a new study reports that deviations in regional climates due to global warming could render areas currently deemed suitable for the production of solar energy less feasible in the future.

8 Oct 2020

UNH Awarded $1.5 Million to Study the Carbon Interactions in Thawing Arctic

The University of New Hampshire will lead research as part of a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation to better understand how interactions between plants, microbes and soil minerals in permafrost, a subsurface layer of frozen soil covering a fourth of the Northern Hemisphere, stimulate the release of carbon which adds to the warming Arctic.

8 Oct 2020

Study Shows the Vicious Cycle Between Climate Change and Infectious Diseases

Climate change is affecting the spread and severity of infectious diseases around the world -- and infectious diseases may in turn be contributing to climate change, according to a new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

8 Oct 2020

Study Offers a Blueprint for Restoring and Maintaining Healthy Ecosystems

The reintroduction of seagrass into Virginia's coastal bays is one of the great success stories in marine restoration.

8 Oct 2020

Consistent Mercury Concentrations Found in Ringed Arctic Seals

Ringed seals and other Arctic marine mammals are important in the diet of Arctic Indigenous peoples.

8 Oct 2020

Polar Ice and Water Vapor Drive Variability in Different Climate Models

A Florida State University researcher is part of a team that has found varying projections on global warming trends put forth by climate change scientists can be explained by differing models' predictions regarding ice loss and atmospheric water vapor.

8 Oct 2020

Study Assesses Regional Impact of Phosphorus Supply Chain Dynamics

Phosphorus is essential in agriculture to maintain higher production levels, where it is applied as a fertilizer.

8 Oct 2020

Past Tropical Forest Changes Influenced Megafauna, Ancient Human Extinctions

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, scientists from the Department of Archaeology at MPI-SHH in Germany and Griffith University's Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution have found that the loss of these grasslands was instrumental in the extinction of many of the region's megafauna, and probably of ancient humans too.

8 Oct 2020

Rising Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agriculture Increases Climate Threat

According to the authors of a new study published in Nature, rising nitrous oxide emissions are putting reaching climate goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement in jeopardy.

8 Oct 2020

Data Tool Helps Users Manage Water Systems Efficiently

River systems are essential resources for everything from drinking water supply to power generation - but these systems are also hydrologically complex, and it is not always clear how water flow data from various monitoring points relates to any specific piece of infrastructure.

8 Oct 2020