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New Non-Invasive Tool to Sample Contaminants in Bee Hives

Honeybee colonies are bioindicators of environmental contamination in the area, since they get coated in everything that there is in the environment, including pollutants, and they end up taking it all back to their bee hives.

20 Jul 2020

Study Investigates Storage, Distribution, Quality of Water in the Landscape

In low precipitation periods - where and how is the limited available water distributed and what possibilities are there for improving retention in the soil and the landscape? Doerthe Tetzlaff and her team from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries have discovered that vegetation has a major influence on this.

20 Jul 2020

Study Summarizes Information on Tiny Snails in Eastern Sector of the Arctic

Shell-bearing microgastropods are snails whose size is less than five millimetres. They represent one of the least studied groups of metazoan living organisms in the oceans.

20 Jul 2020

Agrochemicals can Increase Transmission of Schistosome Worm

Widespread use of pesticides and other agrochemicals can speed the transmission of the debilitating disease schistosomiasis, while also upsetting the ecological balances in aquatic environments that prevent infections, finds a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

20 Jul 2020

Study Aims to Reveal Greenland Ice Sheet's Past to Predict Future Sea-Level Rise

The Greenland Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise sea levels nearly 24 feet, yet it remains difficult to predict the rate of melt and possible tipping points in the stability of the ice sheet.

20 Jul 2020

Research Shows Extensive Human Use of Antarctica in the Last 200 Years

Antarctica is considered one of the Earth's largest, most pristine remaining wildernesses. Yet since its formal discovery 200 years ago, the continent has seen accelerating and potentially impactful human activity.

17 Jul 2020

PMI Launches “Our World Is Not an Ashtray” Initiative and Aims to Halve Plastic Litter from Products by 2025

Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) today launched “Our World Is Not an Ashtray,” a new global initiative to raise awareness and drive a long-term change in behavior and attitudes around cigarette butt littering.

17 Jul 2020

IFAD, Mars and ICRAF Invest in Sustainable Farming Research and Development in Indonesia and the Philippines

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Mars, Incorporated and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) have agreed to collaborate on a five-year research-in-development project, Sustainable Farming in Tropical Asi...

17 Jul 2020

Climate Change is Expected to Cause Huge Uptick in California’s Weather Conditions

California may see a 54 percent increase in rainfall variability by the end of this century, according to new research from the lab of Assistant Professor Da Yang, a 2019 Packard Fellow and atmospheric scientist with the University of California, Davis.

17 Jul 2020

Researchers Use Global Climate Models to Investigate, Project Climate Behavior

A research led by the Department of Geography at Hong Kong Baptist University has revealed that the observed average moving speed of tropical cyclones making landfall over the coast of China dropped by 11% between 1961 and 2017.

17 Jul 2020

European Forests Sustained Long-Term Damage Due to Climate Change

No year since weather records began was as hot and dry as 2018. A first comprehensive analysis of the consequences of this drought and heat event shows that central European forests sustained long-term damage.

17 Jul 2020

Genetic-Sequencing can Protect Corals from Dramatic Climate Shifts

Coral reefs are dying at an alarming rate as water temperatures rise worldwide as a result of global warming, pollution and human activities.

17 Jul 2020

Dehydration Caused by Rising Temperatures is Impacting Amphibian Species

Amphibians have few options to avoid the under appreciated one-two punch of climate change, according to a new study from Simon Fraser University researchers and others.

17 Jul 2020

Pandemic Lockdown Improves Air Quality in Five Indian Cities

A team of 10 interdisciplinary researchers from the University of Surrey's renowned Global Centre for Clean Air Research, including PhD students and post-doctoral researchers, have united to develop a rapid assessment of the impact COVID-19 has had on air quality.

17 Jul 2020

New Process Predicts Global Warming Trends and Heat Waves

New research from Arizona State and Stanford Universities is augmenting meteorological studies that predict global warming trends and heat waves, adding human originated factors into the equation.

16 Jul 2020