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Robusta Coffee is More Sensitive to Climate Change than Previously Believed

Even the toughest coffee trees may be no match for climate change. A new study of the plant that produces robusta coffee suggests its heat tolerance has been consistently overestimated.

24 Jun 2020

New System can Help Study Natural Climate Fluctuations

In their model simulations, climate researchers always have to make compromises. Even with the largest computers available worldwide, they can only reproduce the real world to a limited extent.

24 Jun 2020

Fish Farming Reduces Water Quality in Pond Ecosystems, Affects Microbial Communities

Small-scale water bodies with areas less than 0.1 km2, such as natural ponds, constitute the quantitative bulk of global inland water bodies, and are very susceptible to human disturbances and environmental change.

24 Jun 2020

Scientists Explore Sustainable Measures to Restore Burnt Forests

Long-lasting drought increases the risk of forest fires. In the past two years, many sometimes large forest fires developed in Germany.

24 Jun 2020

Artificial Lighting can Impact Coastal Ecosystems

The artificial lighting which lines the world's coastlines could be having a significant impact on species that rely on the moon and stars to find food, new research suggests.

24 Jun 2020

New Methodology to Detect Water Pollution in Coastal Areas

Researchers at the University of Seville Marine Biology Laboratory, working in the research team of Dr. José Carlos García Gómez, have demonstrated the usefulness of using the SBPQ methodology to detect potential shifts in coastal areas.

24 Jun 2020

Identifying Suitable Habitats for Vulnerable Species has Major Implications for Carbon Sequestration

Throughout California, the effects of climate change are evident from increasing frequencies of intense wildfires and mudslides to widespread and prolonged droughts.

24 Jun 2020

Majority of Americans Favor Initiatives that can Mitigate Climate Change

A majority of Americans (63%) continue to say they see the effects of climate change in their own communities, and 65% believe that the federal government is doing too little to reduce the impacts of climate change, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

24 Jun 2020

Study Highlights the Role of Local Policies in Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests

In recent years, there has been a rise in foreign and domestic large-scale land acquisitions--defined as being at least roughly one square mile--in Latin America, Asia, and Africa where investing countries and multinational investors take out long-term contracts to use the land for various enterprises.

24 Jun 2020

Agricultural Conservation Management Fails to Protect Rarest Butterfly Species

Conservation management around the margins of agriculture fail to protect butterfly species at greatest risk from the intensification of farming, a new study says.

24 Jun 2020

How to Make Copper Mines Emission Free

The Zero Emission Copper Mine of the Future by University of Sydney’s Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering sets out how Australian copper mining can become emission free over the next 30 years through the use of emerging technologies.

23 Jun 2020

Industry Giants Back ORE Catapult’s Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence

Ten of the world’s leading offshore energy organisations have joined the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s national Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FOWCoE) to drive forward the development of next-generation offshore wind technologies.

23 Jun 2020

Winners of Top 50 Women in Engineering: Sustainability Revealed

The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) is delighted to announce the winners of the Top 50 Women in Engineering: Sustainability awards. Now in its fifth year, the 2020 WE50 celebrates women who have made a significant contribution within sustainability.

23 Jun 2020

Controlled Thermal Resources Welcomes $US 4.46m Support from the California Energy Commission

The California Energy Commission (“CEC”) furthered its commitment to support geothermal renewable energy development and the state’s emerging lithium industry by awarding Controlled Thermal Resources’ (“CTR”) Hell’s Kitchen Geothermal LLC, two grants totalling $US 4.46 million.

From Controlled Thermal Resources 23 Jun 2020

New Way to Tackle Biofilms Using Cleaning Agents Derived from Microbes

Lurking inside pipes and on the surfaces of indwelling medical devices, slimy layers of bacteria, called biofilms, cause problems ranging from largescale product contamination to potentially fatal chronic infections.

23 Jun 2020