Increasing opportunities for sustainable behavior

To mitigate climate change and safeguard ecosystems, we need to make drastic changes in our consumption…

Crab larvae off Oregon and Washington suffering shell damage from ocean acidification, new research shows

Ocean acidification is damaging the shells of young Dungeness crab in the Northwest, an impact that…

Storm Gloria claims 12 lives in Spain, four missing

A violent storm which wrought havoc across huge swathes of Spain’s eastern and southern coastline this…

The Blue Acceleration: Recent colossal rise in human pressure on ocean quantified

Human pressure on the world’s oceans accelerated sharply at the start of the 21st century and…

Deciphering the sugar code

Like animals and humans, plants possess a kind of immune system. It can e.g. recognize pathogenic…

Researchers explain how disorder in tiny crystals enables heat-therapeutic systems

A new research study at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL) of the Foundation…

NASA's Kepler witnesses vampire star system undergoing super-outburst

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a…

Australia fires speed global CO2 level rise: UK Met Office

Carbon emissions from the wildfires that have ravaged much of southeast Australia are a major driver…

The regulators active during iron deficiency

Iron deficiency is a critical situation for plants, which respond using specific genetic programmes. Biologists from…

Locusts the latest curse of East Africa weather extremes

Billions of locusts swarming through East Africa are the result of extreme weather swings and could…