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Climate research needs to change to help communities plan for the future How can we design projects, such as tunnels, to last decades yet still account for the uncertain effects of climate change? AP Photo/Julie Jacobson Robert Kopp, Rutgers University Climate change is a chronic challenge – it is here now, and will be with … Read more
Microbes that live in fishes’ slimy mucus coating could lead chemists to new antibiotic drugs Drug discovery can get an assist from what nature’s already devised. Annie Spratt/Unsplash, CC BY Sandra Loesgen, Oregon State University One day in the future, you may take a pill to treat an illness – and owe your recovery to … Read more
Plastic bag bans can backfire if consumers just use other plastics instead One use and done? Not always. Peteruetz/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Rebecca Taylor, University of Sydney Governments are increasingly banning the use of plastic products, such as carryout bags, straws, utensils and microbeads. The goal is to reduce the amount of plastic going into landfills … Read more
Jamaica leads in Richard Branson-backed plan for a Caribbean climate revolution Turbines in Manchester Parish, Jamaica, the English-speaking Caribbean’s first wind farm. Debbie Ann Powell Masaō Ashtine, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus and Tom Rogers, Coventry University After hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Caribbean in 2017, devastating dozens of islands – … Read more
University of California’s break with the biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good Libraries subscribe digitally to academic journals – and are left with nothing in the stacks when the contract expires. Eric Chan/Flickr, CC BY MacKenzie Smith, University of California, Davis The University of California recently made international headlines when it … Read more
Climate change: obsession with plastic pollution distracts attention from bigger environmental challenges When temperatures rise and ice melts, more water flows to the seas and ocean water warms and expands in volume. Shutterstock Rick Stafford, Bournemouth University and Peter JS Jones, UCL By now, most of us have heard that the use of plastics is … Read more