Agricultural pollution comes from the prairie, but its economic impact on humans is a problem for cities.
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UBC-Led Team to Find Out How to Feed the World While Protecting Nature With New Grant
An international team led by UBC researchers will study five case studies across five continents to model a range of solutions to an urgent question: how can we feed everyone on Earth, and those to come, sustainably?
HKUST Researchers Discover 'Hotspots' of Three-layered Alternatively Rotating Circulation in South China Sea
A research team led by Prof. GAN Jianping, director of the Center for Ocean Research Hong Kong and Macau (CORE) at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), carried out field observations and conducted numerical simulations in the South China Sea (SCS) recently and revealed the never-before-seen characteristics of the three-dimensional ocean motion in the SCS through geophysical fluid dynamic theory.
New Hybrid Machine Learning Forecasts Lake Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change
Throughout the middle of the 20th century, phosphorus inputs from detergents and fertilizers degraded the water quality of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva, spurring officials to take action to remediate pollution in the 1970s.
Once Seen as Fleeting, a New Solar Tech Shines on and On
Princeton Engineering researchers have developed the first perovskite solar cell with a commercially viable lifetime, marking a major milestone for an emerging class of renewable energy technology.
Science Coverage of Climate Change Can Change Minds – Briefly
Science reporting on climate change does lead Americans to adopt more accurate beliefs and support government action on the issue – but these gains are fragile, a new study suggests.