There's little point in buying an electric vehicle if you're charging it with electricity generated by fossil fuels.
Blue Carbon Project Will Create a Living Shoreline to Protect Coastal Ecosystems in Galveston Bay
Rice University, BCarbon and Scenic Galveston have launched an innovative project to protect the Kohfeldt Marsh near Texas City from sea level rise through the design and creation of a living shoreline.
Caspian Sea Decline Threatens Endangered Seals and Coastal Communities
Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea shrinking, research led by the University of Leeds has found.
HKU Ecologists Lead International Effort to Understand Declining Insect Biodiversity in the Tropics
A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the decline of insect populations in the world’s tropical forests.
Tree Rings Track Atmospheric Mercury Cheaply
Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a study conducted in the Peruvian Amazon and published April 8 in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science.
World’s Largest Study Reveals the Long-Term Health Impacts of Flooding
The world’s largest and most comprehensive study of the long-term health impacts of flooding – via analysis of over 300 million hospitalisations records in eight countries prone to flooding events, including Australia – has found an increased risk of 26 per cent of all diseases serious enough to require hospitalisation.
Growing Risk of ‘Thirstwaves’ as the Planet Warms
The atmosphere is getting thirstier.
New Assessment Shows Gain of Coastline from Receding Glaciers
New research gives a detailed look at the extent to which receding glaciers in Alaska and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere are creating new coastline and how that newly exposed terrain is behaving.
With the Great Mussel Die-Off, Scientists Scramble for Answers
Throughout his professional life, U.S. Forest Service researcher Wendell Haag has studied freshwater mussels in their hotspot of biological diversity, which extends across a vast swath of the southeastern United States.
Powerful Methane Emissions from Lake Siljan Puzzle Researchers
Unexpectedly strong methane emissions have been detected at several locations in Lake Siljan, Sweden, according to a new study from Chalmers University of Technology.