Tag: Environment
To avoid very high pension ages, enable more to work
A new IIASA study shows that in most European countries, if labor force participation rates remain at current levels, by 2050 it would be...
Team models photosynthesis and finds room for improvement
Teaching crop plants to concentrate carbon dioxide in their leaves could increase photosynthetic efficiency by 60 percent and yields by as much as 40...
Early warning system for epidemics
The environment has an impact on our health. Preventing epidemics relies on activating the right counter-measures, and scientists are now trying to find out...
Potatoes Could Step Up Performance under Climate Change Pressure
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) agricultural engineer David Fleisher and his colleagues conducted studies to measure how potato plants would respond to elevated atmospheric carbon...
Study finds white sharks can live 70 years and longer
Adult white sharks, also known as great whites, may live far longer than previously thought, according to a new study that used radiocarbon dating...
Geoengineering approaches to reduce climate change unlikely to succeed
Reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the planet’s surface by geoengineering may not undo climate change after all. Two German researchers used a simple energy...
More efficient ways to power our flights
As countries try to protect their domestic air carriers from a European Union proposal that would put a price on the emissions they release...
The unintended benefits of pollution rules
China's unprecedented economic growth has created a more affluent society that demands more energy. The current growth is leading to more emissions from power...
Artificial lung to remove carbon dioxide — from smokestacks
The amazingly efficient lungs of birds and the swim bladders of fish have become the inspiration for a new filtering system to remove carbon...
Deep-ocean carbon sinks need more study
Although microbes that live in the so-called “dark ocean”—below a depth of some 600 feet where light doesn’t penetrate—may not absorb enough carbon to...
