by Iliyah | Apr 17, 2019 | Earth and Environment
Dr Shin Sugiyama and his colleagues at Hokkaido University in Japan study the shrinking glaciers near the village of Qaanaaq in northwest Greenland, where local people are reliant on hunting and fishing. His team’s analysis shows that glaciers in the area have shrunk...
by Iliyah | Apr 4, 2019 | Biology, Earth and Environment, Engineering and Tech, Health and Medicine, Physical Science, Social Sciences, STEM Education
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany. To this end, it grants more than 700 research fellowships and research awards annually. These allow researchers from all over...
by Iliyah | Mar 6, 2019 | Earth and Environment, Engineering and Tech
Coastal environments have immense ecological, practical, recreational and cultural value, and are under threat from multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors. Dr Brian Glazer and his team at the University of Hawai’i use specialised equipment to conduct remote...
by Iliyah | Jan 23, 2019 | Earth and Environment, Physical Science
The behaviours of physical systems are often decided by complex webs of connections between properties, where a small change in just one variable could cause changes in every other one. Dr Joe Borovsky at the Space Science Institute of Boulder, Colorado, and his...
by Iliyah | Jan 9, 2019 | Earth and Environment, Health and Medicine
Just as human beings can catch a cold, plants can also get viral infections. Understanding the mechanisms regulating the interactions between plants and viruses is the first step towards developing better management strategies and using biotechnology methods to...
by Iliyah | Jan 9, 2019 | Earth and Environment
The Arctic ice caps are shrinking at an increasing rate – part of a global pattern that may have grave consequences for the planet and all its inhabitants. Glaciologist Professor Martin Sharp and his team at the University of Alberta in Canada are attempting to...
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