ENN
Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan have shown that torrefied biomass can improve the quality of poor soil found in arid regions. Published in Scientific Reports, the study showed that adding torrefied biomass to poor soil from Botswana increased water retention in the soil as well as —the amount of plant growth.
Los investigadores de las Universidades de Bristol y Exeter están un paso más cerca de desarrollar una nueva generación de células solares de alta eficiencia y bajo costo. La estructura es uno de los primeros ejemplos del mundo de un absorbente solar de tres capas, con una capa intermedia de carbono que almacena energía más allá de la superficie.
How ambitious is the world? The Paris climate conference last December astounded many by pledging not just to keep warming “well below two degrees Celsius,” but also to "pursue efforts" to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C. That raised a hugely important question: What's the difference between a two-degree world and a 1.5-degree world?
We’ve reached a sad milestone: Climate change has claimed its first mammal species. Scientists have been warning us that a large percentage of species will face extinction thanks to manmade global warming, and the future is unfortunately here.
According to The Guardian, climate change’s first mammal victim was an adorable rodent known as the Bramble Cay melomys. Sometimes called a mosaic-tailed rat, the melomys was named after Bramble Cay, an Australian island close to Papua New Guinea, that was the only known home for the species.
Hace unos meses, el Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC por sus siglas en inglés) publicó un mapa sorprendente que mostraba las partes de los EE.UU. que podrían albergar los mosquitos capaces de llevar el Zika. Muchos lectores, incluido yo mismo, pensaron: "El Zika podría venir a mi ciudad! ¡Podría venir a Connecticut! ¡O a Ohio e Indiana! ¡O al norte de California! ¡Ay Dios!"
A farming technique practised for centuries by villagers in West Africa, which converts nutrient-poor rainforest soil into fertile farmland, could be the answer to mitigating climate change and revolutionising farming across Africa.
