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Relationship Between Humanity and Ocean can Promote Sustainable Ocean Governance

A new relationship between humanity and the ocean is required to secure the continuity of the diverse life support roles provided by the sea, according to a paper published in Nature Communications on 17 July 2020.

21 Jul 2020

Fish Fillets Exposed to Microplastic Pollution are Still Safe for Human Consumption

In a new laboratory study, experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research investigated how many microplastic particles would be absorbed in the muscle tissue of young European sea bass after being given feed with extremely high microplastic particle content for a period of four months.

21 Jul 2020

New Technology can Store Surplus Green Energy in Water

With a grant of almost DKK 5 million from the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme, EUDP, under Danish Energy Agency, work is about to begin on building a 100 sqm test facility to demonstrate new technology that stores green surplus energy in giant underground water balloons.

21 Jul 2020

Climate Scientists Downplay Role of Indigenous People in Their Zeal to Promote Climate Change

In their zeal to promote the importance of climate change as an ecological driver, climate scientists increasingly are ignoring the profound role that indigenous peoples played in fire and vegetation dynamics, not only in the eastern United States but worldwide, according to a Penn State researcher.

21 Jul 2020

Solar Energy Facilities Pose Threats to Cacti and Other Desert Plants

With their tough skins, pointy armor and legendary stamina, cacti are made to defend themselves from whatever nature throws at them.

21 Jul 2020

Farming Landscapes can Provide Habitats for Biodiversity, Promote Connectivity Between Protected Areas

Over 360 scientists from 42 countries - led by the University of Göttingen and Westlake University China - call for transition of food production systems to agroecological principles.

21 Jul 2020

Study Identifies Toxicological Risks of Environmental Pollutants in Finless Porpoises

A recent study just published in Environmental Science & Technology identified the toxicological risks of environmental pollutants to finless porpoises.

21 Jul 2020

Researchers Propose Complementary Strategies to Improve Food and Nutrition Security

The nation needs to strengthen and increase funding for federal nutrition research and improve cross-governmental coordination in order to accelerate discoveries, grow the economy, and - most importantly - improve public health, food/nutrition security, and population resilience, according to a high-level group of research, policy, and government experts.

21 Jul 2020

New Strategy Helps Destroy Bacteria in Wastewater Treatment Plants

A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and free-floating antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants.

21 Jul 2020

Changes in Whales’ Distribution Patterns are Linked to Ocean Warming

Researchers using passive acoustic recordings of whale calls to track their movements have found that four of the six baleen whale species found in the western North Atlantic Ocean -- humpback, sei, fin and blue whales -- have changed their distribution patterns in the past decade.

21 Jul 2020