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Biological Consequences of Climate Change on Epidemics May Be Scale-dependent
Conventional thinking holds that current climate warming will increase the prevalence and transmission of disease.
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Circadian clock discovery could help boost water efficiency in food plants
A discovery by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists in Dallasprovides new insights about the biological or circadian clock, how it regulates high water-use efficiency in some plants, and how others, including food plants, might be improved for the same efficiency, possibly to grow in conditions uninhabitable for them today.
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Why the Post-Paris Climate Challenge Is Even Harder Than We Thought
Climate negotiators gathering in Germany this week are still flush with the success of the Paris Agreement two years ago. But as they begin assembling a rule book for ensuring that the national pledges made in Paris are fulfilled, there comes a hard dose of reality. Those pledges, which constrain greenhouse gas emissions from now…
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Relocating bus stops would cut riders' pollution exposure, UCLA study finds
oving bus stops away from intersections would substantially reduce the amount of pollution bus riders are exposed to, UCLA scientists report today in the journal Environmental Pollution.Research has shown that in many cities in the United States and internationally, bus riders frequently spend 15 to 25 minutes or more each way waiting for a bus.
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Alma's Image of Red Giant Star Gives a Surprising Glimpse of the Sun's Future
A Chalmers-led team of astronomers has for the first time observed details on the surface of an aging star with the same mass as the Sun. ALMA:s images show that the star is a giant, its diameter twice the size of Earth’s orbit around the Sun, but also that the star’s atmosphere is affected by…
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Protecting 'High Carbon' Rainforests Also Protects Threatened Wildlife
Conservation efforts focused on protecting forests using carbon-based policies also benefit mammal diversity, new research at Kent has found.
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Crime-Scene Technique Used to Track Turtles
Scientists have used satellite tracking and a crime-scene technique to discover an important feeding ground for green turtles in the Mediterranean.
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Briny Pool Bacteria Can Clean Up and Power Up
Warm and salty wastewater is a by-product of many industries, including oil and gas production, seafood processing and textile dyeing. KAUST researchers are exploring ways to detoxify such wastewater while simultaneously generating electricity. They are using bacteria with remarkable properties: the ability to transfer electrons outside their cells (exoelectrogenes) and the capacity to withstand extremes…
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Saving Seagrasses From Dredging – New Research Finds Solutions
Timing of dredging is the key to helping preserve one of the world's most productive and important ecosystems – seagrass meadows.
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Together For More Food Safety in Europe and its Neighbouring Countries
Strawberries from Spain, tomatoes from the Netherlands, spices from Morocco and citrus fruits from Georgia – the globalisation of food production and food trading is posing new challenges for consumer health protection. The range of foods is getting bigger and their safety has to be guaranteed in increasingly more complex supply chains.