Pathway for ‘green ammonia’ opens in a combined experimental and computational study
A combined experimental and computational study shows promising results for a new class of catalysts producing ammonia under mild conditions.
Healthier UK diets linked to lower greenhouse gas emissions
A new analysis adds to evidence that nutritious diets are often more environmentally sustainable, while also demonstrating the feasibility of evaluating diet sustainability at...
How sugar-loving microbes could help power future cars
It sounds like modern-day alchemy: Transforming sugar into hydrocarbons found in gasoline. But that's exactly what scientists have done. Researchers report harnessing the wonders...
How to eat a poison butterfly
In high enough concentrations, milkweed can kill a horse, or a human. To be able to eat this plant, monarchs evolved a set of...
Researchers reveal how to turn a global warming liability into a profitable food security...
Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, can be captured and transformed into protein-rich feed for farmed fish -- an increasingly important food sector. A new...
A multi-model analysis of long-term emissions and warming implications of current mitigation efforts
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 November 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01206-3Mitigation pathways tend to focus on an end temperature target and calculate how to keep within...
Risk transfer policies and climate-induced immobility among smallholder farmers
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 November 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01205-4Smallholder farmers will be impacted substantially by climate change and need to adapt. Agent-based modelling shows...
Risk transfers support adaptation
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 November 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01231-2Finding effective ways to support rural communities in adapting to climate change is critical for building...
Archaeologists discover salt workers’ residences at underwater Maya site
Maya archaeologists have excavated salt kitchens where brine was boiled in clay pots over fires in pole and thatch buildings preserved in oxygen-free sediment...
Novel artificial genomic DNA can replicate and evolve outside the cell
Scientists successfully induced gene expression from a DNA and evolution through continuous replication extracellularly using cell-free materials alone for the first time. By adding...
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