Areas where the next pandemic could emerge are revealed
A team of experts has incorporated environmental, social and economic considerations -- including air transit centrality -- to identify key areas at risk of...
Researchers reveal switch used in plant defense against animal attack
Researchers have identified the first key biological switch that sounds an alarm in plants when plant-eating animals attack. The mechanism will help unlock a...
Cascading events led to 2018 Ki?lauea volcanic eruption, providing clues for forecasting
The 2018 eruption of Ki?lauea Volcano was one of the largest volcanic events in Hawai'i in 200 years. This eruption was triggered by a...
New material ‘mines’ copper from toxic wastewater
A team of scientists has designed a new material -- called ZIOS (zinc imidazole salicylaldoxime) -- that targets and traps copper ions from wastewater...
Conservation under climate change
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 November 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00961-zConservation under climate change
Two roads diverge
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 November 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00962-yThe past year has seen climate change manifest in wildfires, storms and flooding, in some cases...
Supersized wind turbines generate clean energy–and surprising physics
As wind energy scales up, researchers study the fluid dynamics challenges.
Tracking and fighting fires on earth and beyond
Scientists demonstrate how fires burn and spread under different environmental conditions.
The science of windy cities
Researchers model urban airflows to help improve the design of drones, skyscrapers, and natural ventilation systems.
Indonesian wildfires a ‘fixable problem’
Indonesian wildfires that cause widespread air pollution and vast carbon emissions are a 'fixable problem', according to the leader of a project set up...




















