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UrduThe Engineering Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research announces the 2021 recipients of its Mentoring Awards and winners of its Student Video Competition.
Tag: Climate Change
Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf is ripping apart, speeding up key Antarctic glacier
For decades, the ice shelf helping to hold back one of the fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica has gradually thinned. Analysis of satellite images reveals a more dramatic process in recent years: From 2017 to 2020, large icebergs at the ice…
Decisions, Decisions: Climate Change and Water
PNNL’s Framework for Assessment of Complex Environmental Tradeoffs (FACET) is designed to navigate and rigorously evaluate competing environmental, economic, and social impacts to help make decisions more equitable. In an example scenario prepared using publicly available data, FACET was applied to predict tradeoffs facing the Colorado River and to balance competing demands of river flow and temperature, along with withdrawals for cities, crop irrigation, and power generation.
Solving Plastic Pollution and Climate Change Simultaneously
Checkout how sea is degraded with plastic and impact of pollution on land and sea.
Butterflies and moths have difficulty adjusting to a rapidly changing climate
Climate change exerts great pressure for change on species and biodiversity. A recent study conducted by the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Environment Institute indicates that the few moth and butterfly species (Lepidoptera) capable of adjusting to a changing…
More sustainable mortars and concrete with optimal thermal and mechanical efficiency
The University of the Basque Country-UPV/EHU is researching mortars and concrete manufactured from industrial by-products, within the circular economy approach
Study on plant roots challenges nature of ecological trade-offs
The specific traits of a plant’s roots determine the climatic conditions under which a particular plant prevails. A new study led by the University of Wyoming sheds light on this relationship — and challenges the nature of ecological trade-offs. Daniel…
Study of harvey flooding aids in quantifying climate change
How much do the effects of climate change contribute to extreme weather events? It’s hard to say–the variables involved are plentiful, each event is unique, and we can only do so much to investigate what didn’t happen. But a new…
Chamoli disaster could happen again
Some four months ago, a devastating flood ravaged the Chamoli district in the Indian Himalayas, killing over 200 people. The flood was caused by a massive landslide, which also involved a glacier. Researchers at the University of Zurich, the WSL…
Research grants awarded to regional scientists studying the red sea’s coral reef
This unique reef is expected to be among the last to survive past mid-century
Dinosaurs lived in greenhouse climate with hot summers
New climate reconstruction method provides precise picture of climate 78 million years ago
IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts
Global experts identify key options for solutions; First-ever collaboration between IPBES- and IPCC-selected scientists
UNESCO report calls for increases in investment in science in the face of growing crises
Paris, June 11 – Spending on science worldwide increased (+19%) between 2014 and 2018, as did the number of scientists (+13.7%). This trend has been further boosted by the COVID crisis, according to UNESCO’s new Science Report, The Race against…
Climate protection: Deep decarbonization by 2050 currently not plausible
Today the Hamburg-based Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) publishes a new, essential study on climate futures. The study represents the first systematic attempt to investigate whether a climate future with net-zero carbon emissions is not only…
Four collaborative research centres at Goethe University receiving funding
German Research Foundation funds new CRC Transregio 326 „Geometry and arithmetic of uniformized structures” – CRC 1039 on medical signal path research enters third funding period – Goethe University involved in two further CRC-Transregios
Combating maritime litter
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon categorizes innovative solutions for fighting pollution in the oceans
Soot from heaters and traffic is not just a local problem
Study from Thuringia shows: 50% of the soot that is harmful to health comes from local sources and 50% from long-distance transport
Indigenous mortality following Spanish colonization did not always lead to forest regrowth
A new study, published now in Nature Ecology and Evolution , draws on pollen records from tropical regions formerly claimed by the Spanish Empire in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, to test the significance and extent of forest regrowth…
World-first discovery could fuel the new green ammonia economy
In a world-first, Monash University scientists have developed a new, environmentally friendly process that could drive the future production of green ammonia. Ammonia (NH3) is a globally important commodity for fertiliser production to help sustain food production. It is currently…
Study shows how permafrost releases methane in the warming Arctic
Researchers from Skoltech have designed and conducted experiments measuring gas permeability under various conditions for ice-containing sediments mimicking permafrost. Their results can be useful both in modeling and testing techniques for gas production from Arctic reservoirs and in tracing methane…
The rocky road to accurate sea-level predictions
Dirt and water under Greenland control future sea
As a decade of ecosystem restoration kicks off, don’t forget the people
Global ecosystem restoration efforts are often measured by billions of trees planted or square kilometers of land restored. But there is a critical void in the agenda: The social and political dimensions that make restoration a success
Coalition of scientists determine cause, scope of February 2021 Uttarakhand disaster
The researchers suggest that climate change is contributing to such events happening more frequently
Protecting biological diversity and climate isn’t always the same thing: making policy and plans to do both—the historic work of two international science organizations, from a biologist’s perspective
Sarah E. Diamond, an associate professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, is available this week to discuss the June 10 environment/biodiversity report between the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity…
Soot Particles Vary in How They Soak Up the Sun
Soot in the atmosphere absorbs sunlight, warming the Earth’s atmosphere. This analysis shows that soot particles’ shape and composition can vary significantly. This creates discrepancies between real-world observations and predictions from models. This research used measurement and modeling to provide a framework that explains variation in atmospheric soot.
DOE Awards $54 Million to 235 American Small Businesses Developing Novel Clean Energy And Climate Solutions
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced 235 small businesses, across 42 states, will receive $54 million in critical seed funding for 266 projects that are developing and deploying proof-of-concept prototypes for a wide range of technological solutions needed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
Key to Carbon-Free Cars? Look to the Stars
In a decade-long quest, scientists at Berkeley Lab, the University of Hawaii, and Florida International University uncover new clues to the origins of the universe – and land new chemistry for cleaner combustion engines
Soil microbes metabolize the same polyphenols found in chocolate, wine
New insights into the role of polyphenols in the soil microbiome
Climate models can predict decadal rainfall variations on Tibetan plateau
Summer rainfall on the Tibetan Plateau is highly predictable on multiyear timescales in large ensemble predictions, according to a research team led by ZHOU Tianjun from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The study,…
Assessing feasibility concerns in climate mitigation scenarios
While the IPCC is in the midst of the drafting cycle of the Sixth Assessment Report, whose publication will start in the second half of 2021 – one of the most relevant events for the global climate change community, there…
German researchers involved in seawater desalination project in the Persian Gulf
Researchers of Mainz University cooperate with partners in the Middle East to provide drinking water to settlements on the Persian Gulf
Corals’ natural ‘sunscreen’ may help them weather climate change
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists are one step closer to understanding why some corals can weather climate change better than others, and the secret could be in a specific protein that produces a natural sunscreen. As their name implies, Hawaiian…
Panama expands the limits of the Coiba protected area
With this science-based initiative, 30% of the Panamanian marine surface will be under some degree of protection
Culture shift needed to tackle climate crisis
Tackling the climate crisis will require embracing new ways of thinking and challenging dominant social and economic practices, a new book suggests. Experts from multiple fields argue that alternative approaches – beyond technological advances which do not challenge existing inequities…
A study analyzes the risk of karst groundwater contamination to human consumption
A scientific study conducted by researchers from 11 countries, five of them from the Centre of Hydrogeology of the UMA
Study: Hope for critically endangered gorillas in eastern DRC
New field data from population strongholds updates the global population estimate for Grauer’s gorillas to 6,800 individuals
Tree diversity may save the forest: Advocating for biodiversity to mitigate climate change
When it comes to climate change, policymakers may fail to see the trees for the forest. Turns out that the trees may be the answer after all, according to a study published by authors from more than seven countries on June 3rd in Nature Climate Change.
Deforestation darkening the seas above world’s second biggest reef
Converting Central American tropical forests into agricultural land is changing the colour and composition of natural material washing into nearby rivers, making it less likely to decompose before it reaches the ocean, a new Southampton-led study has shown.
First Global Statistical Analysis of Harmful Algal Blooms
June 8, 2021 — The first-ever global statistical analysis of trends in harmful algal blooms (HABs) has shown that, worldwide, there is no significant increase in HABs events, but that in some regions, events that include toxic species of algae affecting humans and wildlife are on the rise. In addition, the study finds that human activity, primarily aquaculture in coastal waters, and the economic impacts that HABs event cause to the fast-growing growing industry, is likely behind the perceived increase.
Feeling hot and bothered? It’s complicated
Rising temperatures are increasingly affecting the quality of life in many regions, setting new challenges for architects, urban planners and healthcare systems. Researchers at KAUST have analyzed discomfort due to outdoor heat across Saudi Arabia and neighboring regions to help…
Springer Nature and LYRASIS announce open access sponsorship agreement for books
Springer Nature and LYRASIS announce open access sponsorship agreement for books that support research and teaching aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Researchers study historic Mississippi flow and impacts of river regulation
In “Atchafalaya,” John McPhee’s essay in the 1989 book The Control of Nature, the author chronicles efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prevent the Atchafalaya River from changing the course of the Mississippi River where they diverge,…
Study identifies major barriers to financing a sustainable ocean economy
Financing a sustainable global ocean economy may require a Paris Agreement type effort, according to a new report from an international team of researchers led by the University of British Columbia. That’s because a significant increase in sustainable ocean finance…
UN: More harmful algal bloom impacts emerge amid rising seafood demand, coastal development
UNESCO IOC delivers 1st global assessment report after 7 years’ work by 109 experts in 35 countries, creating a baseline to detect and gauge the changing distribution, frequency, and intensity of harmful — often poisonous — algal blooms
Deforestation darkening the seas above world’s second biggest reef
Converting Central American tropical forests into agricultural land is changing the colour and composition of natural material washing into nearby rivers, making it less likely to decompose before it reaches the ocean, a new Southampton-led study has shown. The flow…
Tree diversity may save the forest: Advocating for biodiversity to mitigate climate change
When it comes to climate change, policymakers may fail to see the trees for the forest. Turns out that the trees may be the answer after all, according to a study published by authors from more than seven countries on…
Keeping a closer eye on seabirds with drones and artificial intelligence
Technology revolutionizes monitoring the health and size of remote seabird colonies
Food systems offer huge opportunities to cut emissions, study finds
Greenhouse gases from food production are systematically underestimated, researchers say
Most cities in São Paulo state have low potential capacity to adapt to climate change
Cities located in metropolitan areas of this Brazilian state score better according to an index that measures the existence of public policies designed to adjust critical sectors to the impacts of climate change
The next 20 are years crucial in determining the future of coal
Decisions made now will determine whether economies win or lose money as the coal industry changes over the next couple of decades. Countries including Australia and Indonesia could lose billions of dollars if they continue to invest in new coal…