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Hace unos 210 millones de años, Gran Bretaña estaba formada por muchas islas, rodeadas de mares cálidos. Europa en ese momento estaba más al sur, en latitudes equivalentes al norte de África en la actualidad. Gran parte de Europa era tan caliente como el desierto y en este punto se inundó por un gran mar: La Transgresión Rética

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.

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.

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.

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.