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“#New map for radioactive soil contamination in Western Europe” Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international consortium of scientists has refined the map of cesium and plutonium radionuclide concentrations in soils in Switzerland and several neighboring countries. Using an archive of European soil samples, the team led by Katrin Meusburger from the University of Basel, now…
“#Accelerated drying increases potential wildfire ignitions statewide in Texas” Game Ranch Wildfire in Nolan County. Credit: Texas A&M Forest Service Significant wildfire activity has increased statewide, and accelerated drying has elevated the potential for new wildfire ignitions. New wildfires will become increasingly difficult to extinguish if current temperatures and drying conditions persist into August as…
“#Q&A: Airborne water leak detection using an innovative ‘triangle method’” Credit: WADI This year is on course to be one of the hottest since measurements began and Europe saw its joint second warmest June on record. While the global soaring temperature is heavily impacting water resources, it is crucial to address the leakages in pipes…
“#The ecological footprint of European colonization at the doorway to the Americas” Getting soil samples from the lagoon. Credit: Leiden University Historical figures such as Columbus have returned to the centre of public debate. Much remains to be discovered about his legacy and current impact on our society. A new study shows the ecological footprint…
“#COVID-19 lockdown reduced dangerous air pollutants in five Indian cities by up to 54 percent” The COVID-19 crisis and subsequent lockdown measures have led to a dramatic reduction of harmful air pollutants across major cities in India, finds a new study from the University of Surrey. A team of 10 interdisciplinary researchers from the University…
“#Scientists see COVID-19 as historic moment for UK’s environmental future” McLachlan climate protest. Credit: Unsplash A leading group of University of Manchester academics are imploring policy makers to use the UK’s post-pandemic recovery as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead a positive green revolution. The UK is slowly easing COVID-19 restrictions and has recently announced financial…
“#250,000 tonnes of shipping CO2 emissions saved thanks to machine learning insight” Maritime engineers have trained an energy shipping app to save over a quarter of a million tonnes of CO2 emissions by applying machine learning to its predictive system. Researchers from the University of Southampton and Shell Shipping and Maritime have developed a digital…
“#Coronavirus: how lockdown exposed food insecurity in a small Bangladeshi city” The food market in Mongla in October 2019: it was shut during the COVID-19 lockdown. Credit: Hanna Ruszczyk, Author provided The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as far more than a health crisis for the world’s poor and marginalised, exposing faultlines in food systems around…
“#Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico’s population will last for decades, study shows” Homes lay in ruin as seen from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations, Black Hawk during a flyover of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria September 23, 2017. Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Kris Grogan Life for the people…
“#How Rwanda extracts methane from Lake Kivu for electricity” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Lake Kivu lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. It’s almost the size of Mauritius and has a maximum depth of 480 meters. Lake Kivu also stores huge amounts of methane gas which Rwanda is extracting…