Building on a century of hydroscience research, the University of Iowa enters a new era of activity aimed at solving Earth’s biggest environmental issues.
Iowa dives into the future of water research
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How Will Climate Change Stress the Power Grid? Hint: Look At Dew Point Temperatures
A new study suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand for electricity in the United States.
Ready-To-Use Recipe for Turning Plant Waste Into Gasoline
Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven already knew how to make gasoline in the laboratory from plant waste such as sawdust. Now the researchers have developed a roadmap, as it were, for industrial cellulose gasoline.
Satellite Sees Short-lived Tropical Cyclone Kirk
Tropical Storm Kirk formed on Saturday, Sept. 22. By Monday, Sept. 24, Kirk lacked the closed circulation that is a prerequisite for tropical cyclone status. The NOAA-20 satellite provided a visible image of the storm at its peak.
Mosquitoes That Can Carry Malaria Eliminated in Lab Experiments
The team from Imperial College London were able to crash caged populations of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae in only 7-11 generations.
National Parks Hit Harder By Climate Change Than Rest of the U.S.
America’s national parks are warming up and drying out much faster than the rest of the United States, according to a new study on the impacts of climate change on U.S. parks published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The changing conditions are threatening protected ecosystems from the Everglades in Florida to Denali National Park in Alaska.
