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DOE Awards $1.3 Million Grant to Study Beneficial Links Between Biofuel Sorghum and Fungus

For years, researchers have been trying to harness the crop-growing benefits of the symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi.

2 Sep 2020

Clemson Wins NSF Grant to Unravel the Mechanisms of Ecosystem Health

Clemson University researcher Barbara Campbell and her collaborators have received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to identify the functional mechanisms of microbes that relate to the health of ecosystems.

2 Sep 2020

Study Explores Ways to Use Sunlight to Turn Emissions into Beneficial Materials

According to Shaama Sharada, a WISE Gabilan Assistant Professor from the University of Southern California (USC), carbon dioxide (CO2), which is said to be the worst offender of global warming, is a very stable, “very happy molecule.”

2 Sep 2020

Temperature and Weather Changes can Affect Life Cycle of Crawfish

The life cycle of a crawfish can be fairly straight forward. In the summer months, crawfish reproduce in underground mud burrows with a plug of mud on top of the burrow to protect them from predators.

1 Sep 2020

Signature Whistles of Individual Dolphins Used to Estimate Population Size and Movement

An international team of scientists has succeeded in using the signature whistles of individual bottlenose dolphins off the coast of Namibia to estimate the size of the population and track their movement.

1 Sep 2020

Warmer, Acidifying Ocean has a Dramatic Effect on Diversity of Coral Reefs

Changes in ocean chemistry and temperature have had a dramatic effect on the diversity of corals and sea anemones, according to a team of scientists who have traced their evolution through deep time.

1 Sep 2020

Increasing Sea Levels from Ice-Sheet Losses Match Worst-Case Climate Warming Scenario

Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised the global sea level by 1.8 cm since the 1990s, and are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case climate warming scenarios.

1 Sep 2020

Study Maps the Extent of Human Development in Oceans

In a world-first, the extent of human development in oceans has been mapped. An area totalling approximately 30,000 square kilometres - the equivalent of 0.008 percent of the ocean - has been modified by human construction, a study led by Dr Ana Bugnot from the University of Sydney School of Life and Environmental Sciences and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science has found.

1 Sep 2020

Researchers Develop New Method to Quantify the Effects of Plastic on Marine Animals

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology together with their international collaborators developed a novel quantitative method to quantify the effects of plastic on marine animals.

1 Sep 2020

Research can Help Produce Flood-Tolerant Crops

Enzymes that control a plant's response to lower oxygen levels could be manipulated to make vital crops resistant to the impacts of flooding triggered by climate change, new research shows.

1 Sep 2020

New Molecular Photoswitch can Store Solar Energy for Later Consumption

Linköping University scientists have created a new molecule that is capable of absorbing solar energy and storing it in chemical bonds.

1 Sep 2020

Better Simulation of El Niño Events Reduces Uncertainty in Future Climate Projections

A new study led by University of Hawai'i at Manoa researchers, published in the journal Nature Communications this week, revealed that correctly simulating ocean current variations hundreds of feet below the ocean surface - the so-called Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent - during El Niño events is key in reducing the uncertainty of predictions of future warming in the eastern tropical Pacific.

31 Aug 2020