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A team of researchers from Yale University has launched a new map of places where life has yet to be discovered. They did this in less than a decade after unveiling the “Map of Life”, which is a global database that marks the distribution of known species across the planet. Walter Jetz, a professor at …
Scientists Came Up With A Map Of Potentially Undiscovered Life Read More »
There is a lot there out in the world we still have to discover. Ocean and sea creatures are surely one of the first places we need to explore more. Once in a time, we get a chance to find some giant animals out there in the ocean as their bodies wash ashore. The size …
Peculiar 23 Foot Faceless Sea Creature Found On Welsh Beach Read More »
According to researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions, future climate change will cause a regionally uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt (a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the equator). This development may threaten food security for billions of people. In a study published today in Nature Climate Change, the …
Study Says That Climate Change Will Alter The Position Of The Earth’s Tropical Rain Belt Read More »
In this year of extreme weather events, scientists and members of the public are asking when these extreme events can be scientifically linked to climate change. Dale Durran, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, argues that climate science needs to approach this question in a way similar to how weather forecasters …
Are Scientists Being Too Cautious When Linking Extreme Weather To Climate Change? Read More »
A team of researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton believe that volcanic ash can play an important role in removing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In a new study, the team modelled the effect of spreading volcanic ash from a ship to an area of the ocean …
New Study Finds That Volcanic Ash Can Be Used To Reduce Rising CO2 Levels Read More »
In 2010, 190 member states of the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity committed to a battle plan to limit the damage inflicted on the natural world by 2020. The plan had 20 main objectives to save Earth’s vital biodiversity ranging from phasing out fossil fuel subsidies and limiting habitat loss to protecting fish stocks. Now, …
Countries Have Missed All The Targets They Set Themselves To Preserve Nature Read More »
A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge has shown why intense, pure red colors in nature are mainly produced by pigments, instead of the structural color that produces bright blue and green hues. The team used a numerical experiment to determine the limits of matt structural color and found that it extends only …
Why Blues and Greens are the Brightest Colors in Nature? New Study Explains Read More »
A team of researchers from the University of Nottingham has discovered how a protein in plant roots controls the uptake of minerals and water. This finding could improve the tolerance of agricultural crops to climate change and reduce the need for chemical fertilizers. This recent study shows that members of the blue copper proteins family, …
New Plant Protein Discovery Can Help Us Reduce The Need for Chemical Fertilizers Read More »
Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found evidence that marine food webs will not cope well with increasing sea temperatures caused by climate change. The research was published in the journal Science. They basically recreated a coastal ecosystem of three habitats found in the Gulf St. Vincent, at the South Australian Research and Development …
Evidence Shows That Marine Ecosystems Are Under Increasing Pressure Read More »
Corals in the Ocean are made up of coral polyps, a small soft creature with a stem and tentacles, they are responsible for nourishing the corals, and aid the coral’s survival by generating self-made currents through motion of their soft bodies. Scientists from WMG at the University of Warwick, led by Eindhoven University of Technology …
Aquatic Robots Can Remove Contaminant Particles From Water Read More »
A post-lockdown economic recovery plan that incorporates and emphasises climate-friendly choices could help significantly in the battle against global warming, according to a new study. This is despite the sudden reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants during lockdown having a negligible impact on holding down global temperature change. The researchers warn that even …
A recent study by a group of researchers at Australian National University (ANU) demonstrated a new way of recreating ocean conditions in the Atlantic during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) which occurred around 20,000 years ago. What is the Last Glacier Maximum (LGM)?The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) was the most recent time during the Last …
Conditions During Last Ice Age Could Hold Clues For Future Climate Read More »
Researchers have developed a new self-assembling silver membrane that can capture carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions before they can spread in the atmosphere. Researchers used a never before attempted technique and seeded their gas separation membrane with only a tiny deposit of the valuable metal, leveraging the flow of CO2 itself to grow tiny silver crystals or …
A New Type Of Membrane Which Separates CO2 From Other Gases Read More »
Researchers have found the highest levels of microplastic recorded on the seafloor ever, with up to 1.9 million pieces in a thin layer covering just 1 square meter. It is estimated that over 10 million tons of plastic waste enter the oceans each year. Floating plastic waste at sea has caught the public’s interest thanks …
Highest Levels Of Microplastics On Seafloor Ever Found Read More »
The ice in the Arctic Ocean could completely melt, at least temporarily, in summers and this might happen before 2050 itself. The kind of climate-protection measures we take and the way we implement will determine how often and for how long this could happen. This result comes from a new research study involving 21 research …
A new study says that the tiny hairs on plant roots play an important role in reducing soil erosion. Research led by the University of Bristol and published in the journal of Communications Biology provides compelling evidence that when root hairs interact with the surrounding soil they increase soil cohesion by binding soil particles. Soil …
Plastics have become a headache for our environment today!! So, researchers have been struggling to find some way to clean this humungous amount of plastic waste. German researchers report in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology that they have found and characterized a strain of bacteria capable of degrading some of the chemical building blocks of …
Microbes Which Can Degrade Polyurethane-based Plastics Read More »
