ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

How to feed the world by 2050?

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE 02.18.2019 07:57 AM

One of the most significant challenges of the 21st Century is how to sustainably feed a growing and more affluent global population with less water and fertilizers on shrinking acreage, despite stagnating yields, threats of pests and disease, and a changing climate.

Singapore Beaches hounded by microplastics with pathogenic bacteria

02.15.2019 07:58 AM

Bacterial scare on the beaches of Singapore National University of Singapore scientists have discovered a biodiverse bacteria thriving on microplastics across Singapore's beaches and coastal regions.

The Life Cycle of an Olive

02.13.2019 18:26 PM

Olives and olive oil are food staples around the world, but many people do not know that olive trees are one of the oldest growing trees in the world - some may live to be as old as 1,500 years, with the average lifespan being 500 years.

Super-absorbent fake leaves suck carbon dioxide from the environment

02.13.2019 09:45 AM

Fake leaves can harness artificial photosynthetic reactions that can reduce carbon dioxide in the environment

NASA catches the 1-day life of Tropical Cyclone Neil

02.12.2019 07:53 AM

Tropical Cyclone Neil had a short life in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean. It developed on February 9 and dissipated on February 10. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the storm that developed even while battling wind shear.

2018 fourth warmest year in continued warming trend, according to NASA, NOAA

02.07.2019 11:35 AM

Earth's global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

New scale to characterize strength and impacts of atmospheric river storms

02.06.2019 08:33 AM

A team of researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has created a scale to characterize the strength and impacts of "atmospheric rivers," long narrow bands of atmospheric water vapor pushed along by strong winds. They are prevalent over the Pacific Ocean and can deliver to the Western United States much of its precipitation during just a few individual winter storms.

Rapid gene cloning technique will transform crop disease protection

02.05.2019 08:56 AM

Researchers have pioneered a new method which allows them to rapidly recruit disease resistance genes from wild plants and transfer them into domestic crops.

NW Forest Plan 25 years later: Wildfire losses up, bird populations down

02.05.2019 08:34 AM

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Twenty-five years into a 100-year federal strategy to protect older forests in the Pacific Northwest, forest losses to wildfire are up and declines in bird populations have not been reversed, new research shows.

Earth's largest extinction event likely took plants first

02.01.2019 13:49 PM

Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered its wrath long before many animal counterparts, says new research led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

NASA's Aqua satellite shows winds shear affecting Tropical Cyclone Riley

01.31.2019 08:55 AM

Visible from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed the effects of wind shear on Tropical Cyclone Riley in the Southern Indian Ocean.

China not 'walking the walk' on methane emissions

01.30.2019 09:51 AM

Chinese regulations on coal mining have not curbed the nation's growing methane emissions over the past five years as intended

Graphene and related materials safety: human health and the environment

01.28.2019 19:54 PM

The Graphene Flagship project has a dedicated Work Package studying the impact of graphene and related materials on our health, as well as their environmental impact. This enables safety by design to become a core part of innovation.

Identifying factors that influence mercury levels in tuna

01.23.2019 10:49 AM

Most consumers' exposure to toxic methylmercury occurs when they eat fish. But research just published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology could help clarify why methylmercury concentrations in tuna vary geographically.

Antarctic krill population contracts southward as polar oceans warm

01.22.2019 18:17 PM

The population of Antarctic krill, the favourite food of many whales, penguins, fish and seals, shifted southward during a recent period of warming in their key habitat, new research shows.