World Wildlife Conservation has warned that many iconic species are at risk of extinction if the planet warms up over 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Coral bleaching, penguins losing their Antarctica ice caps and the extinction of the black-headed squirrel monkey of the Amazon are predicted
Coral reefs are known to be habitats for many marine animals, so it has become extremely important to preserve them. The threat of climate change and global warming has pushed the population of the world’s coral reefs on the edge. Scientists have been looking at
Phosphates found on the earth’s crust are an essential element for aquatic plants and animals to thrive. However, most of them flow into the waterways due to man-made activities. This has resulted in algae blooms that have covered some lakes and rivers, depriving marine organisms
With the surge in popularity of takeout meals, design studio Forest and Whale created Reuse – biodegradable sustainable containers from the wheat husk, which can be composted in facilities or even gulped down. Forest and Whale was co-founded by Gustavo Maggio and Wendy Chua as
Heat-related death is a major problem, and climate change is only fuelling up the cases. Approximately more than one-third of heat deaths are linked in some way or the other to human-caused climate change. According to a new study in Nature Climate Change, the conclusion
High concentrations of mercury, a natural toxic material, has been detected in the water bodies connected to Greenland Ice Sheet. The island is one of the most isolated places on Earth – yet the runoff water from these glaciers contain a high amount of mercuries
The Floating Wind Turbine project is one of the most anticipated energy technologies, that GE research featured at the annual ARPA-E Innovation Summit – virtually held from Monday, May 24-27. GE researchers announced the details of their current two-year, $4 MM project through the ARPA-E’s
Kenya has initiated its first national wildlife census that targets fuel conservation and identifying threats to its diverse yet threatened wildlife population. The census will continue till July with researchers and community members counting animals on land and from aircraft. It will focus on counting
An Amsterdam-based German artist, Diana Scherer has created a patterned root material that can be used to capture carbon. After the long-term experiment on grounded plant parts with plant biologists at Radboud University in Nijmegen to understand the core systems, she has perfected the process
The current rate of biodiversity degradation of the freshwater ecosystem has surpassed the destruction that ended the dinosaurs and the man-induced biodiversity destruction will take millions of years to recover, a study has found. It stated that the current extinction rate of freshwater biodiversity in