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Environment - 10.02.2025 - Today

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step to understanding how to protect vulnerable ecosystems.
Environment - Life Sciences - 07.02.2025

What measures are suitable for providing better living conditions for insects in typical Franconian landscapes? This question was investigated by a research team from the University of Würzburg. The results are now available. Biodiversity is under threat worldwide.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 06.02.2025

For the first time, an international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ice quakes take place in one of Greenland's mightiest ice streams. This finding will allow the flowing of the ice stream and associated changes in sea level to be estimated more accurately. The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets to the sea - and a change in their dynamics will contribute significantly to sea-level rise.
Health - Environment - 06.02.2025

People's ability to interpret emotions or focus on performing a task is reduced by short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution, potentially making everyday activities, such as the weekly supermarket shop, more challenging, a new study reveals. Scientists discovered that even brief exposure to high concentrations of PM may impair a person's ability to focus on tasks, avoid distractions, and behave in a socially acceptable manner.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 06.02.2025

The Arctic plays a central role in the global climate system. However, climate change could disrupt its balance. An international research team headed by the Alfred Wegener Institute and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has presented a comprehensive analysis of the current state of the Arctic carbon cycle.
Life Sciences - Environment - 04.02.2025

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara. But what determines whether some butterflies travel long distances while others travel short distances? A group of scientists, including from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), shows that the different migration strategies are shaped by environmental conditions rather than being encoded in the butterfly's DNA.
Chemistry - Environment - 03.02.2025

Tiny copper 'nano-flowers' have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone of modern energy and manufacturing. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley, developed a practical way to make hydrocarbons - molecules made of carbon and hydrogen - powered solely by the sun.
Environment - 30.01.2025

International research team shows benefits of cacao grafting for farmers and nature alike The productivity of cacao trees decreases with time, forcing farmers to renew their plantations by either cutting down the old trees or establishing a new crop elsewhere. Frequently, new plantations are established in areas of the forest that are thinned out to accommodate new, young cacao trees.
Life Sciences - Environment - 30.01.2025
Bioscientists achieve major advancement in protein-metal binding research
Researchers from our top-rated Biosciences department have made an exciting discovery that could revolutionise how scientists design and engineer biological systems. Their new study reveals a way to predict and control how proteins inside cells bind to metals - an essential process for life. Revealing secrets of protein metalation Metals such as iron, manganese, and cobalt are crucial for many biological processes, helping proteins carry out vital functions in cells.
Environment - Paleontology - 30.01.2025

Even positive effects do not compensate for the complex dangers of climate change doi.org/10.3390/biology14020142 Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living today are severely threatened by overï¬shing and the loss of their habitat.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 30.01.2025

An international research team has concluded that the Sikkim flood disaster in the Himalayas in October 2023 was caused by some 14.7 million cubic meters of frozen moraine material collapsing into South Lhonak Lake, triggering a 20-meter flood wave. The event is a striking example of the increasing dangers of climate change in high mountain regions.
Environment - 30.01.2025
Future of UK peatlands under threat due to climate change
Peatlands are critical ecosystems for carbon storage and biodiversity, containing more carbon than all the world's forests despite covering just 3% of the global land surface - but new research has revealed that vast areas of the UK's peatlands, including the Flow Country UNESCO World Heritage Site, are likely to be unsuitable for peat accumulation by 2061-80 due to climate change.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 29.01.2025

A new study with the involvement of multiple researchers from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the University of Jena found that biodiversity has changed faster in locations where warming or cooling was faster. Published in the journal "Nature", the study focused on how the composition of species in an ecosystem - rather than the number of species - has shifted over time.
Environment - 29.01.2025

Consumers in Switzerland are prepared to spend much more money on cow's milk products if they have been produced in an animal-friendly way, and this factor is even more important to them than climate sustainability, as shown by a new study by the University of Basel. Consumers in Switzerland value the well-being of cows in Switzerland.
Environment - Chemistry - 28.01.2025

Scientists from The University of Manchester have developed a new material that could help reduce water pollution caused by harmful chemicals, such as from leftover medicines and hygiene products, that end up in rivers and lakes. Water pollution is one of the growing challenges of modern life. Many everyday items, from medications to cosmetics, leave behind residues that don't fully break down after use.
Environment - Social Sciences - 28.01.2025
How do emotions influence how people deal with natural disasters?
Researchers led by an UdeM architecture professor look at how fear, anger and pride combine to shape responses to climate risks in four Latin American communities. Cecilia lives in Carahatas, a coastal village in Cuba threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change. Experts predict that part of the village could be under water within 50 years.
Earth Sciences - Environment - 27.01.2025

Belgian scientists from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) have returned from an expedition to Antarctica near the Princess Elisabeth Station, with blue ice samples and data that could lead them to ice millions of years old, providing valuable information on the evolution of the Earth's climate in the past.
Environment - 27.01.2025

New UGent research shows that more snowfall in the future could slow or offset the negative effects of climate change on glaciers in southern Patagonia.
Environment - Life Sciences - 27.01.2025

The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers. A concerted, collaborative effort across the world's botanic gardens is now needed to conserve a genetically diverse range of plants.
Environment - 23.01.2025

Twenty volunteers spent six months learning about the scientific method through a citizen-science initiative led by EPFL. The initiative was part of a study to determine how the microplastic particles released by tire wear are affecting lakes and rivers in Vaud Canton. The particles of plastic released as our tires rub against the pavement may be just a few millimeters big, but they're a huge source of pollution.
Earth Sciences - Feb 5
Analysis: Turkey's earthquake reconstruction efforts must balance speed with fairness
Analysis: Turkey's earthquake reconstruction efforts must balance speed with fairness

Environment - Jan 30
ANU part of new $US150M partnership with Rio Tinto to support global energy transition
ANU part of new $US150M partnership with Rio Tinto to support global energy transition

Environment - Jan 30
Going beyond Net Zero: Bath engineers and architects launch manifesto on regenerative design
Going beyond Net Zero: Bath engineers and architects launch manifesto on regenerative design
Environment - Jan 29
How we deal with energy will decide our future: Introduction to this year's dossier
How we deal with energy will decide our future: Introduction to this year's dossier

Astronomy - Jan 29
European Space Agency funded Heat Loss Index to be developed by University of Glasgow
European Space Agency funded Heat Loss Index to be developed by University of Glasgow