Three years after bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef off Mauritius, spilling 1000 tonnes of a new type of marine fuel oil, Curtin University-led research has confirmed the oil is still present in an environmentally sensitive mangrove forest close to important Ramsar conservation sites.
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Decarbonizing Heavy Industry with Thermal Batteries
Whether you’re manufacturing cement, steel, chemicals, or paper, you need a large amount of heat.
Better Education can Mitigate Post-Harvest Food Losses, Increase Global Food Security
Better educating farmers and food processors about how to avoid post-harvest food losses – which amount to one-third of global food production, worth US$1 trillion annually – would reduce global food insecurity, according to researchers at McGill University.
The Milky Way Represents an Outlier Among Similar Galaxies, Universe Survey Data Shows
The Milky Way galaxy has long been considered the ideal model for studying galactic evolution, but three new studies co-led by Stanford scientists reveal that the birth of our home galaxy may not be typical of how other galaxies evolved.
King Salmon Declines Linked to Climate, Smaller Size
King salmon have sustained people in Alaska for at least 12,000 years, but over the past three decades their populations have begun to dwindle.
Lava Nears Iceland’s Blue Lagoon
After more than two months of quiet, a volcanic fissure once again burst open on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula on November 20, 2024.