Environmental News Network

Asian Elephants May Lose up to 42 Percent of Suitable Habitats in India and Nepal Until 2070

Protecting and expanding suitable habitats for wildlife is key to the conservation of endangered species, but owing to climate and land use change the ideal habitats of today may not be fitting in 30 or 50 years.

Data Transfer by Controlled Noise

In information technology, multiplexing schemes are used to transmit more signals than the number of available transmission channels.

Home Insurance Buyers Lack Access to Public Flood Data

Canadian homeowners do not have the information they need to know if they should buy flood insurance leaving them exposed to significant financial risk.

Imaging Goes Underground at the Hanford Site

At the southern tip of the sprawling Hanford Site, the soil beneath the 300 Area contains residual uranium from a handful of now-removed settling ponds and trenches that stored liquid waste from the processing of spent nuclear fuel rods.

Reduced Salinity of Seawater Wreaks Havoc on Coral Chemistry

New research confirms that drastic changes in ocean salinity from, for example, severe freshwater flooding, as recently experienced off the coast of north-east Queensland from abnormal monsoonal conditions, provoke a similar stress response in corals as extreme heating, resulting in "freshwater bleaching" and if unabated, coral death.