Machine learning helps predict if storms will cause power outages
Summer thunderstorms that knock out power grids are common around the world. Computer scientists and meteorologists applied machine learning to predict how damaging each...
Shared E-scooters aren’t always as ‘green’ as other transport options
People think of electric scooters, or e-scooters, as environmentally friendly ways to get around town. But a new study finds it's not that simple:...
Economic growth benefits wildlife but growing human populations do not
Analysis shows that while national-level economic growth and social development -- including more women in government -- are associated with more abundant wildlife, growing...
Way to enhance the sustainability of manufactured soils
A combination of waste materials supplemented with a product of biomass could help in the search for high quality soils, a new study suggests.
To learn how poison frogs are adapting to warmer temperatures, scientists got crafty
Strawberry poison frogs live in Costa Rican forests that are being cut down for farmland. The deforested pastures are hotter and sunnier, so scientists...
Author Correction: Sea-level driven land conversion and the formation of ghost forests
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 02 August 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0568-8Author Correction: Sea-level driven land conversion and the formation of ghost forests
Supercomputing improves biomass fuel conversion
Pretreating plant biomass with THF-water causes lignin globules on the cellulose surface to expand and break away from one another and the cellulose fibers....
Promising new solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production
Engineers have utilized a single enzyme biomineralization process to create a catalyst that uses the energy of captured sunlight to split water molecules to...
EU agriculture not viable for the future
The current reform proposals of the EU Commission on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are unlikely to improve environmental protection, say researchers. While the...
Repairing harmful effects of inbreeding could save the iconic Helmeted Honeyeater
A new study combines over 30 years of demanding fieldwork and advanced genetics to quantify how much harm is done by inbreeding in the...
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