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Newswise: China's Urban Jungles: How City Parks are Winning the Battle Against Concrete
Released: 15-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
China's Urban Jungles: How City Parks are Winning the Battle Against Concrete
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Recent studies highlight a significant transformation in China’s urban landscape, where the greening of city cores is compensating for vegetation loss in expanding urban areas.

Newswise: Mapping Water Wonders: A Groundbreaking Leap in Hydrology with NDWFI
Released: 15-Mar-2024 7:50 AM EDT
Mapping Water Wonders: A Groundbreaking Leap in Hydrology with NDWFI
Chinese Academy of Sciences

In a significant advancement for hydrological monitoring and water resource management, researchers have developed the Normalized Difference Water Fraction Index (NDWFI), leveraging Landsat imagery and Spectral Mixture Analysis (SMA) within the Google Earth Engine platform. This innovation is pivotal for accurately tracking dynamic and subtle water bodies, crucial for enhancing water security and resilience against extreme hydrological events.

Newswise: Information Overload Is a Personal and Societal Danger
Released: 14-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Information Overload Is a Personal and Societal Danger
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

We are all aware of the dangers of pollution to our air, water, and earth. In a letter recently published in Nature Human Behavior, scientists are advocating for the recognition and mitigation of another type of environmental pollution that poses equivalent personal and societal dangers: information overload.

Newswise:  Smart Water: How AI is Clearing the Waters in Urban Rivers
Released: 14-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Smart Water: How AI is Clearing the Waters in Urban Rivers
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Researchers have developed a new machine learning system to improve the accuracy and efficiency of sewer-river system models. This innovative approach, detailed in their latest publication, promises to significantly reduce parameter calibration time and enhance model precision in predicting urban water pollution.

Newswise: UNH Ingenuity Offers Unique Way to Track Carbon Emissions in Bodies of Water
Released: 13-Mar-2024 6:05 PM EDT
UNH Ingenuity Offers Unique Way to Track Carbon Emissions in Bodies of Water
University of New Hampshire

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are not typically associated with water ways, like streams and rivers, but emerging research shows that water bodies play an important role in storing and releasing carbon dioxide.

Newswise: AI analysis of historical satellite images show USSR collapse in 1990s increased methane emissions, despite lower oil and gas production
Released: 13-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
AI analysis of historical satellite images show USSR collapse in 1990s increased methane emissions, despite lower oil and gas production
University of Washington

An AI-powered analysis of 25 years of satellite images yields the surprising finding that methane emissions in Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic and major oil-producing region, actually increased in the years following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Newswise: Asian Aerosols’ Impact on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Released: 13-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Asian Aerosols’ Impact on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Published in Nature Communications, Increased Asian Aerosols Drive a Slowdown of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, identifies the role aerosols over Asia is having on the AMOC, a complex system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean.

Newswise:Video Embedded with-discovery-of-roundworms-the-great-salt-lake-ecosystem-just-got-more-interesting
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Released: 13-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
With Discovery of Roundworms, the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Just Got More Interesting
University of Utah

University of Utah biologists announce the discovery of numerous species of roundworm in the highly saline waters of Great Salt Lake, the vast terminal lake in northwestern Utah that supports millions of migratory birds.

Newswise: KIMM finds solution to medical waste problem, which has become a major national issue
Released: 13-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
KIMM finds solution to medical waste problem, which has become a major national issue
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials has succeeded in developing an on-site-disposal type medical waste sterilization system that can help to resolve the problem caused by medical waste, which has become a national and social issue as the volume of medical waste continues to increase every year.

Newswise: High Resolution Imagery Advances the Ability to Monitor Decadal Changes in Emperor Penguin Populations
Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
High Resolution Imagery Advances the Ability to Monitor Decadal Changes in Emperor Penguin Populations
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

High resolution satellite imagery and field-based validation surveys have provided the first multi-year time series documenting emperor penguin populations.

Newswise: Sonic Youth: Healthy Reef Sounds Increase Coral Settlement
Released: 13-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Sonic Youth: Healthy Reef Sounds Increase Coral Settlement
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Researchers at WHOI demonstrated that replaying healthy reef sounds could potentially be used to encourage coral larvae to recolonize damaged or degraded reefs.

Newswise: Drought, Soil Desiccation Cracking, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Overlooked Feedback Loop Exacerbating Climate Change
Released: 13-Mar-2024 12:05 AM EDT
Drought, Soil Desiccation Cracking, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Overlooked Feedback Loop Exacerbating Climate Change
Tufts University

Soil stores 80 percent of carbon on earth, yet with increasing cycles of drought, that crucial reservoir is cracking and breaking down, releasing even more greenhouse gases creating an amplified feedback loop that could accelerate climate change.

Newswise: Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heatwave, study finds
11-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heatwave, study finds
University of Bristol

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found.

Newswise: Breathing Easy: New Study Declares Waste-to-Energy Plants a Low Health Risk
Released: 12-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Breathing Easy: New Study Declares Waste-to-Energy Plants a Low Health Risk
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A recent study has highlighted the insignificant health hazards posed by the emissions from waste-to-energy (WtE) facilities in China's Bohai Rim. This investigation brings to light the negligible impact of WtE plant emissions on public health, grounded in sophisticated regression analysis techniques.

   
Newswise: “Organic Fertilizer from Cassava Waste” An Innovation from Chula to Replace Chemical Fertilizers and Increase the Value of Agricultural Waste
Released: 11-Mar-2024 8:55 AM EDT
“Organic Fertilizer from Cassava Waste” An Innovation from Chula to Replace Chemical Fertilizers and Increase the Value of Agricultural Waste
Chulalongkorn University

A Chula researcher has been successful in adding value to agricultural waste generated by industrial factories by transforming cassava waste and sewage sludge into organic fertilizer to replace the use of chemical fertilizers. He has also come up with a special formula of microbial inoculum that increases nutrients needed by plants.

Released: 8-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EST
SMART Global Congress Set to Meet in Namibia, March 10-14
Wildlife Conservation Society

The SMART Partnership is pleased to announce the inaugural SMART Global Congress in Windhoek, Namibia from 10-14 March 2024.

Newswise: Turning Night into Day: A Revolutionary Approach to 24/7 Air Quality Monitoring Using Cameras
Released: 8-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EST
Turning Night into Day: A Revolutionary Approach to 24/7 Air Quality Monitoring Using Cameras
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A new research unveils a groundbreaking approach to air quality monitoring, leveraging the power of surveillance cameras with a state-of-the-art hybrid deep learning model.

Newswise: Scientists reveal molecular mysteries to control silica scaling in water treatment
Released: 6-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EST
Scientists reveal molecular mysteries to control silica scaling in water treatment
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientist develop synthetic polymers to combat silica scale, the unwanted coating that fouls the surfaces of various engineering systems, such as reverse osmosis desalination water-treatment membranes, heat exchanger components and plant pipelines

Newswise: Department of Energy User Facility to Host Hands-on Fungal Research Training
Released: 6-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EST
Department of Energy User Facility to Host Hands-on Fungal Research Training
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - EMSL

The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) is accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers for the 2024 EMSL Summer School focused on fungal research. EMSL is providing transportation and hotel accommodations for up to 25 students who are selected through the application process.



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