More of us are vulnerable to the effects of flooding than ever before due to changes in climate, land use, infrastructure and population growth in recent decades.
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Solar-Powered System Converts Plastic and Greenhouse Gases Into Sustainable Fuels
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, developed the system, which can convert two waste streams into two chemical products at the same time – the first time this has been achieved in a solar-powered reactor.
Electrochemistry Converts Carbon to Useful Molecules
A chemistry collaboration led to a creative way to put carbon dioxide to good – and even healthy – use: by incorporating it, via electrosynthesis, into a series of organic molecules that are vital to pharmaceutical development.
Warming Oceans Have Decimated Marine Parasites — But That’s Not A Good Thing
More than a century of preserved fish specimens offer a rare glimpse into long-term trends in parasite populations.
Team Projects Two Out of Three Glaciers Could Be Lost by 2100
David Rounce has led an international effort to produce new projections of glacier mass loss through the century under different emissions scenarios.
Climate ‘Presses’ and ‘Pulses’ Impact Magellanic Penguins — A Marine Predator — With Guidance for Conservationists
Climate change will reshape ecosystems worldwide through two types of climate events: short-term, extreme events — like a heat wave — and long-term changes, like a shift in ocean currents.


