Fungi-on-plant-roots discovery has implications for sustainable agriculature and biotech
Nature’s most widespread and longest-lasting symbiotic relationship shows green promise for agriculture and biotechnology, say researchers
One of biology’s "most charismatic relationships", credited with helping...
Message in a bottle: Plastic tracking project launches in Cornwall
"First study of its kind" to track how plastic bottle pollution moves through the open ocean
Scientific monitoring devices were launched into the ocean on...
Public urged to keep watch for tree pest oak processionary moth
The Forestry Commission has (on 11 May) urged the public to report sightings of oak processionary moth caterpillars. We are now entering the greatest...
Academic wins international award for urban ecology work
A researcher at Northumbria University is part of a group of academics to win a prestigious international award for their work on sustainable science.
Dr...
We can escape “the era of pandemics” says biodiversity expert group, but it will...
Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world economy and kill more people than COVID-19 unless there...
Even treated wastewater affects our rivers, and new study attempts to characterise species shift
New study seems to show that effluents from wastewater treatment plants change the balance of invertebrate communities in Hesse’s waters
Effluents from wastewater treatment plants...
Improved sewage treatment has increased river biodiversity over past 30 years, says study
Improvements in wastewater treatment in the UK over the past 30 years are linked to improvements in river biodiversity, according to a study conducted...
Prototype system sniffs out soil health with results in five minutes
An electronic nose to sniff out soil health that will deliver results to a farmer’s phone in five minutes is being developed by PES...
Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms
Vertical farming is increasingly being regarded as one of the solutions to the problems faced by global food production systems, and in the following...
The buzz around Nanosponge SERS and trace-level detection
Sensitive spectroscopy tools help identify substances linked to honeybee population decline
Optical sensing specialist Ocean Optics says it has shown how highly-sensitive, trace-level Raman spectroscopy...
Study aims to assess effects of coastal light pollution
Have you ever given a thought to how light pollution in our coastal towns may be affecting our marine neighbours?
The School of Ocean Sciences...
Nature-based solutions key to combatting climate change and biodiversity loss, says Lords
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has written to Alok Sharma MP, President for COP26, citing recent evidence gathered as part of...
SEPA fish farm report published in international journal
Independent review of SEPA Fish Farm Survey Report – ‘Evaluation of a New Seabed Monitoring Approach to Investigate the Impacts of Marine Cage...
Review finds half of Britain’s “crown jewels of nature” at risk of extinction
A new report by conservation charity Buglife appears to find that half of the UK’s most special species are at risk of global extinction....
Study supports using waterfleas to remove pollutants from wastewater
Tiny waterfleas could play a pivotal role in removing persistent chemical pollutants from wastewater – making it safe to use in factories, farms and...
Curlews and puffins join the RSPB’s red list, but golden eagles are doing better
A report compiled by the RSPB and others warns that more than one quarter of UK birds are 'red listed' and in need of...
Government set to license fishing vessels for continued bottom trawling in UK Marine Protected...
The UK Government is about to issue over 1,000 fishing licenses for EU and UK fishing vessels for 2022, it was announced on 16...
Oxygen-without-light discovery challenges deep ocean preconceptions
Scientists appear to have found that oxygen is being produced in the deep sea through a process associated with polymetallic nodules on the seafloor...
Algorithm enables rapid and effective tree census using Google Earth
Academics have developed technology which allows Google Earth to be used for a census of palm trees over vast swathes of land as part...
