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A Global Effort to Promote Awareness on Climate Change

Working with international partners, the University of Saskatchewan (USask) has been awarded a $2.5-million Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to increase climate change education, training and public awareness on a global scale.

9 Jun 2020

Identifying a Way to Get Rid of Plastic Waste

Graduate student Linda Zhong and professor of biology Anthony Sinskey are studying the plastic-devouring enzyme PETase as a way to improve recycling.

9 Jun 2020

Emerging Fungal Crop Pathogens Threaten Global Food Security

Amongst the world's most challenging problems is the need to feed an ever-growing global population sustainably.

9 Jun 2020

Global Catastrophes can Drastically Affect Food Systems

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all become aware of how a global crisis can affect our access to food.

9 Jun 2020

Seagrass Meadows can Mitigate Climate Change

Seagrass meadows can be a powerful nature-based climate solution and help sustain communities hard-hit by stressors such as the COVID-19 pandemic, but these important ecosystems continue to decline.

9 Jun 2020

Pesticides are Linked to Low Population of Monarch Butterflies

New evidence identifies 64 pesticide residues in milkweed, the main food for monarch butterflies in the west.

9 Jun 2020

Study Explores Potential Environmental Impact of Marine Energy Devices

Marine scientists from around the world spent the last four years reviewing numerous studies and other data on the possible environmental effects of marine renewable energy (MRE) devices and found that the potential impact to marine life is likely small or undetectable.

9 Jun 2020

Study Shows Impact of Climate Change on Shelf Seafood Webs

In the past six decades, the changing climate has resulted in a shortage of summer nutrients that has contributed to a 50% reduction in crucial North-East Atlantic plankton.

8 Jun 2020

Study on Hot Charge Carriers Could Optimize Energy Conversion and Storage

Researchers from the University of Michigan, Purdue University, and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom have discovered how to measure the number of “hot charge carriers” (for instance, electrons with extra energy) in a metal nanostructure.

8 Jun 2020

A Change in Washing Habits can Reduce Ocean Pollution

A new study has revealed that almost 13,000 tonnes of microfibres, equivalent to two rubbish trucks every day, are being released into European marine environments every year - but this could be reduced by as much as 30% if we made a small change to our laundry habits.

8 Jun 2020

Ocean Warming Caused by Climate Change may Impact Habitat of Lobsters, Sea Scallops

Researchers have projected significant changes in the habitat of commercially important American lobster and sea scallops on the Northeast U.S. continental shelf.

8 Jun 2020

Fruits and Vegetables can be Protected by Egg-Based Coating

Eggs that would otherwise be wasted can be used as the base of an inexpensive coating to protect fruits and vegetables, according to Rice University researchers.

8 Jun 2020

Study Sheds New Light on Water Splitting Reaction of Photosynthesis

A special combination of chemical analysis and nanoscale imaging has allowed an international research team to identify a crucial step in the molecular mechanism that contributes to the water-splitting reaction of photosynthesis.

5 Jun 2020

Weir Crowdfunding for Fish and Renewable Energy #WorldEnvironmentDay

Coinciding with World Environment Day 2020, Settle Hydro has launched a new crowdfunding campaign to protect migrating fish and improve generation of clean electricity at the site, which has seen the effects of climate change reflected in the unprecedented extremes of high and low river levels this year.

5 Jun 2020

Australian Researchers Set Record for Carbon Dioxide Capture

Researchers from Monash University and the CSIRO have set a record for carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) using technology that resembles a sponge filled with tiny magnets.

5 Jun 2020