Nov 07 2017

Biological Consequences of Climate Change on Epidemics May Be Scale-dependent

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Conventional thinking holds that current climate warming will increase the prevalence and transmission of disease. 
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Nov 07 2017

Circadian clock discovery could help boost water efficiency in food plants

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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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Nov 07 2017

Why the Post-Paris Climate Challenge Is Even Harder Than We Thought

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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 to 2030, will only deliver a third of the cuts needed to put the world on track to keep warming below the promised 2 degrees Celsius.
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Nov 07 2017

Relocating bus stops would cut riders' pollution exposure, UCLA study finds

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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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Nov 07 2017

Alma's Image of Red Giant Star Gives a Surprising Glimpse of the Sun's Future

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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 powerful, unexpected shock waves. The research is published in Nature Astronomy on 30 October 2017.
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Nov 06 2017

Protecting 'High Carbon' Rainforests Also Protects Threatened Wildlife

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Conservation efforts focused on protecting forests using carbon-based policies also benefit mammal diversity, new research at Kent has found.
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Nov 06 2017

Crime-Scene Technique Used to Track Turtles

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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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Nov 06 2017

Briny Pool Bacteria Can Clean Up and Power Up

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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 of temperature and salinity (extremophiles).
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Nov 06 2017

Saving Seagrasses From Dredging – New Research Finds Solutions

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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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Nov 06 2017

Together For More Food Safety in Europe and its Neighbouring Countries

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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.
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