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Environment - 13.09.2024
Flowers compete for pollinators with adjustable ’paint by numbers’ petal design
Flowers like hibiscus follow an invisible blueprint established very early in petal formation that precisely dictates the size of their central bullseye - a crucial pattern that can significantly impact their ability to attract pollinating bees. We identified a specific region where the cells were larger than their surrounding neighbours - this was the pre-pattern.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 13.09.2024
Climate-change-triggered landslide caused Earth to vibrate for nine days
Climate-change-triggered landslide caused Earth to vibrate for nine days
A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout Earth, according to a new study involving UCL researchers. A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout Earth, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.

Chemistry - Environment - 13.09.2024
New method in the fight against forever chemicals
New method in the fight against forever chemicals
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new way to break down a dangerous subgroup of PFAS known as PFOS. With the help of nanoparticles and ultrasound, piezocatalysis could offer an effective alternative to existing processes in the future. What do firefighting foam, non-stick cookware, water-repellent textiles and pesticides all'have in common? They all contain perand polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS - human-made chemicals that don't break down naturally.

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 12.09.2024
Sustainable Grain Cultivation with Perennial Wheat
Sustainable Grain Cultivation with Perennial Wheat
In contrast to annual plants, perennial wheat offers a more diverse microbiome and has a significantly lower impact on soil and environment - as has just been proven by researchers at TU Graz's Institute of Environmental Biotechnology. From an ecological point of view, the cultivation of annual cereal crops is a burden on nature.

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 12.09.2024
Greenwashing in food labelling
Greenwashing in food labelling
Researchers at Göttingen University find climate traffic light system prevents consumer deception A research team led by the University of Göttingen found that the label 'climate neutral' makes food appear significantly more climate-friendly than it actually is. Even when information about how the damage to the climate is being offset was explained, this did not stop consumers having the wrong perception about the product.

Life Sciences - Environment - 12.09.2024
How to select bacteria for environmental pollution control
How to select bacteria for environmental pollution control
A study by the University of Lausanne presents a new sorting method designed to optimize bacterial communities for efficient degradation of pollutants in the environment. The ability of microbes to metabolize a wide variety of compounds, including industrial pollutants of human origin, offers considerable potential for solving environmental problems.

Environment - 12.09.2024
3 Questions: The past, present, and future of sustainability science
Professor Ronald Prinn reflects on how far sustainability has come as a discipline, and where it all began at MIT. It was 1978, over a decade before the word "sustainable" would infiltrate environmental nomenclature, and Ronald Prinn , MIT of atmospheric science, had just founded the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment ( AGAGE ).

Environment - Innovation - 11.09.2024
Turning seawater into fresh water through solar power
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have designed an energy-efficient device that produces drinking water from seawater using an evaporation process driven largely by the sun. Desalination is critical for many coastal and island nations to provide access to fresh water, given water scarcity concerns due to rapid population growth and increasing global water consumption.

Life Sciences - Environment - 10.09.2024
How the Butterfly Got Its Pupa
How the Butterfly Got Its Pupa
A research team of scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and Princeton University provide insights into the origins of complete metamorphosis in insects More than sixty percent of all'animal species are insects. The majority of these species undergo complete metamorphosis, whereby the larva transforms into a pupa and then an adult.

Chemistry - Environment - 10.09.2024
Fundamental Knowledge for Sustainable Energy
Fundamental Knowledge for Sustainable Energy
A team of researchers from Jena and Ulm have developed an innovative approach to precisely influence the properties of light-absorbing materials, so-called chromophores. They focused on specific iron compounds, demonstrating that small changes in their chemical structure can control how these compounds react to light.

Environment - Astronomy / Space - 10.09.2024
Happy research
Happy research
The SLF is researching permafrost and snow in Bhutan at an altitude of over 5000 meters and, together with the local population, is developing measures to reduce climate-related risks in the mountains. The Swiss National Science Foundation is funding the Cryo-Spirit project. This text was automatically translated.

Environment - Economics - 10.09.2024
Potential economic and climatic impacts of windstorms in forests
Windstorms are extreme climatic events: rare occurrences with high environmental and economic costs. INRAE and AgroParisTech researchers used foresight modelling to simulate the effects of windstorms on French forests-important carbon sinks-and the French forestry industry through 2050. In one quarter of simulations, windstorms caused a 24% drop in carbon sequestration.

Environment - 10.09.2024
Thanks to humans, Salish Sea waters are too noisy for resident orcas to hunt successfully
The Salish Sea - the inland coastal waters of Washington and British Columbia - is home to two unique populations of fish-eating orcas, the northern resident and the southern resident orcas. Human activity over much of the 20th century, including reducing salmon runs and capturing orcas for entertainment purposes, decimated their numbers.

Environment - 09.09.2024
Honeybees: Combinations of Pesticides Can be Dangerous
Honeybees: Combinations of Pesticides Can be Dangerous
Dangerous mixtures: pesticides in combination can have unexpected effects on the development of honeybees. This is shown by a new study from the Biocenter. Honeybees are social insects. Their colony only survives as a community, and healthy new generations are very important. It is therefore not surprising that honeybees invest significant care and resources into their offspring: nurse bees feed the young larvae with a food juice made from nectar and pollen which they produce in a gland in their head.

Environment - 09.09.2024
Digitally cataloguing archived plant specimens can transform conservation efforts
McGill University study suggests investing in herbaria and uploading records is an effective way to generate the biodiversity data needed to inform policy and action Digitally cataloguing the more than 300 million plant specimens preserved in museums worldwide could yield crucial insights into how to preserve biodiversity amid climate change, a study by McGill researchers has found.

Astronomy / Space - Environment - 09.09.2024
Extent of CO2 and CO ices in the trans-Neptunian region revealed by JWST
Publication of the LGL-TPE in the journal Nature Astronomy on May 22, 2024. Communication by CNRS Earth & Space on June 19, 2024. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most abundant ices in the Solar System. It has been detected in giant planet atmospheres and on their moons, on and around comets, and even in regions of Mercury, the Moon and Mars.

Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 09.09.2024
Cattle raised by Maasai farmers aren’t the conservation villains they’ve been made out to be
Study: Rethinking livestock encroachment at a protected area boundary (DOI: 10.1073/pnas. Bilal Butt knows how it sounds. The associate professor of sustainability and development at the University of Michigan understands that arguing to let cattle graze in a national park offends the sensibilities.

Environment - Materials Science - 05.09.2024
Using 3D imaging to transform plastic waste recycling
In a global first, University of Waterloo researchers have used 3D imaging technology to understand the fine details of microplastics, paving the way for more effective methods of plastic waste recycling. Micro and nanoplastics, tiny particles of plastic that come from the breakdown of larger plastic items, have become an exponentially worsening environmental crisis.

Astronomy / Space - Environment - 05.09.2024
Iron winds on an ultra-hot exoplanet
Iron winds on an ultra-hot exoplanet
An international team, including the University of Geneva, has discovered that iron winds are blowing on the day side of the planet WASP-76 b. An international team of astronomers, including scientists from the University of Geneva and the PlanetS National Centre of Competence in Research, has identified the presence of iron winds in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 b. This planet with its extreme conditions - over 2

Environment - 05.09.2024
Cognitive skills impact lifespan
Cognitive skills impact lifespan
While there is no denying 'survival of the fittest' still reigns supreme in the animal kingdom, a new study shows being smartest - or at least smarter - is pretty important, too. Western animal behaviour and cognition researcher Carrie Branch and her collaborators at University of Oklahoma and University of Nevada, Reno tracked the spatial cognition and lifespan of 227 mountain chickadees for more than a decade.
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