A team of University of Florida faculty members has been awarded a $1.6 million grant to study the impact of climate change in West Africa, the Minerva Research Initiative announced on Friday.
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The Hidden Footprint of Low-Carbon Indoor Farming
Faced with population growth, environmental change, and increasing concerns over food security and sustainability – the interest in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is on an upward trend.
Powerful Warm Winds Seen Blowing From a Neutron Star as it Rips Up Its Companion
Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first-time blasts of hot, warm and cold winds from a neutron star whilst it consumes matter from a nearby star.
California Fire Led to Spike in Bacteria, Cloudiness in Coastal Waters
Scientists analyzed coastal water quality in the months following a major Southern California wildfire. Their results were eye-opening.
Rainfall Strongly Affects Infectious Vibrio Bacteria in Ala Wai Canal
In the Ala Wai Canal in Waikiki, Hawai‘i, the abundance of Vibrio vulnificus, an infectious bacterium, is strongly influenced by the amount of rainfall in the surrounding areas, according to a recently published study by oceanographers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa and Hawai‘i Pacific University (HPU).
Ensuring Sustainable Recreational Fisheries in the Face of Social Change
The observation that ‘the fishing’s not what it used to be’ ranks up there with ‘the one that got away’ as a story that has crossed over from folk wisdom to folklore.