The nutritional qualities of shellfish could be significantly reduced by future ocean acidification and warming, a new study suggests.
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Soil Tilling, Mulching Key to China’s Potato Crop
When you think of China, do you think of potatoes? Maybe not, but in the Loess Plateau region of northwestern China, potato is the main food crop.
Solving a 75-Year-Old Mystery Might Provide a New Source of Farm Fertilizer
The solution to a 75-year-old materials mystery might one day allow farmers in developing nations to produce their own fertilizer on demand, using sunlight and nitrogen from the air.
Now that’s ‘cool’ – Researchers create new efficiencies for light electric vehicles
Researchers at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus are aiming to improve the efficiency of light electric vehicles (LEV) by developing next-generation ‘passive’ cooling solutions for the vehicles’ battery chargers.
A Life Cycle Solution to Energy Impacts
Pitt Engineering researchers study potential benefits in co-treating Pennsylvania's acid mine drainage and shale gas wastewater.
Urban data critical
UVic geography professor Johan Feddema’s life-long academic interest in the interactions between human activity and the earth’s surface and climate didn’t start in a lab but in a graveyard.