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Mythbusting: Five common misperceptions surrounding the environmental impacts of single-use plastics
Stand in the soda pop aisle at the supermarket, surrounded by rows of brightly colored plastic bottles and metal cans, and it's easy to...
Discovery adds new species a lab’s ghoulish insect menagerie
A horrifying insect soap opera with vampires, mummies and infant-eating parasites plays out on the stems and leaves of oak trees every day, and...
Solar hydrogen: Let’s consider the stability of photoelectrodes
Scientists have examined the corrosion processes of high-quality BiVO4 photoelectrodes using different state-of-the-art characterisation methods. The result is the first operando stability study of...
Shifts in flowering phases of plants due to reduced insect density
A research group has discovered that insects have a decisive influence on the biodiversity and flowering phases of plants. If there is a lack...
Globalized economy making water, energy and land insecurity worse
The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy and land resources has found that globalisation may be...
Uncertainties key to balancing flood risk and cost in elevating houses
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Renewable energy targets may undermine their sustainability
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00939-xAs the world’s economies seek to use new renewable energy developments to address climate change and...
Enhanced warming constrained by past trends in equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature gradient
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00933-3The east–west gradient in equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature has strengthened, but models suggest the opposite...
Metal deposits from Chinese coal plants end up in the Pacific Ocean
Emissions from coal-fired power plants in China are fertilizing the North Pacific Ocean with a metal nutrient important for marine life, according to new...
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