To date, the impacts of climate change on health have been relatively neglected in EU policy. Now, a landmark study by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) has raised
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In a new paper published on 3 June in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Patterson and colleagues propose a novel way of potentially recycling atmospheric carbon dioxide
Climate change may already be reducing crop yields of some of the world’s most important crops and food-insecure countries are being affected the most, according to a new study published
Carbon dioxide (CO2) could be a better hydraulic fracturing fluid than water, according to a new paper published on 30 May in the peer-reviewed journal Joule (1). And could pave
A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and Rikin Institute in Japan and Stanford University in the US have seemingly uncovered a cheap and effective way to grow
High-profile changes in the political environment seem to be reducing the overall number of illegally killed elephants in Africa seems to be falling, according to the authors of a new
In a new paper published on 28 May in Advanced Materials, the authors report a novel water purification device inspired by a rose (1). The solar-steaming system is made from
A new paper published earlier this month on 15 May in Science Advances demonstrates the potential cascade of co-extinction in networks of plant species and pollinators in Europe (1). The
Scientists may have finally solved the 200-year-old “Darwin’s paradox”, according to a new study published on 23 May in Science (1). The findings suggest that tiny short-lived fish allow coral
Scientists recently discovered a type of plastic-eating bacteria that slowly munches away on plastic waste in the ocean (1). Now, scientists from the Technical University of Crete have shed some