New research has highlighted issues about how the conservation status of different species is classified, and suggests the focus should be on restoring species now rather than waiting for them to become threatened with extinction before acting.
Using Combustion to Make Better Batteries
An MIT team is working to harness combustion to yield valuable materials, including some that are critical in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries.
Engineered Wood Grows Stronger While Trapping Carbon Dioxide
Rice University scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction.
New Study Settles Long-Standing Debate: Does Agricultural Erosion Create a Carbon Sink or Source
Over the last decade, researchers have sounded the alarm on soil erosion being the biggest threat to global food security.
Slow Motion: USU Geophysicist Investigates Tectonic Plate Boundary Earthquake Behavior
Renaissance polymath Leonard da Vinci demonstrated that frictional forces slow down the motion of surfaces in contact.
Eastern Pacific Coral Reefs Adapting to Warmer Waters, Study Finds
Some corals in the eastern Pacific are adapting to a warmer world by hosting more heat-tolerant algae, according to new research that offers hope for the world’s embattled reefs.
Simple-to-Use eDNA Test Will Help Track Marine Species
Can a single bottle of ocean water contain enough scraps of genetic material for researchers to identify virtually all of the fish, plankton, molluscs, marine mammals and other organisms from that location?
Amazon Mammals Threatened by Climate Change
Two jaguars, caught with a camera trap survey, walk through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.rom jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living in the Brazilian Amazon are threatened by climate change and the projected savannization of the region.
Climate Change Could Cause Mass Exodus of Tropical Plankton
The tropical oceans are home to the most diverse plankton populations on Earth, where they form the base of marine food chains.
The ‘Tipping Point’ Toward Alzheimer’s
New electrical method triggers and analyzes dynamics of brain protein that underlie many neurodegenerative diseases.