Charcoal particles from recent bushfires in NSW were transported 50 kilometres, which has significance for fire history reconstruction.
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Is Your Coffee Contributing to Malaria Risk?
Deforestation for consumer products increases malaria transmission.
Palm Oil Must Be Made More Sustainable While Replacements Are Made Scalable, Bath Engineers Warn
Efforts to create synthetic replacements for palm oil are still likely to take several years, so immediate attention should be focused on making the existing production process more sustainable, researchers at the University of Bath’s Centre for Integrated Bioprocessing Research (CIBR) and Centre for Sustainable Circular Technologies (CSCT) have found.
Positive Connection Between Nature Experiences and Happiness
An AI analysis of photographs posted on social media revealed a positive association between nature and happiness globally.
Research Shows Mangrove Conservation Can Pay for Itself in Flood Protection
The natural coastal defenses provided by mangrove forests reduce annual flooding significantly in critical hotspots around the world.
Natural Contaminant Threat to Drinking Water From Groundwater
More than half of the world’s population faces a looming threat to the quality and availability of their drinking water because climate change and urbanisation are expected to cause an increase in groundwater organic carbon, a new UNSW study has found.