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Researchers discover urbanization causes more heterogeneous spatial patterns over China during rainy season
Recent rapid urbanization worldwide resulted in increasing urban residents. Short-term (sub-daily) precipitation extremes are expected to be more frequent and intense than in the past as the global climate continues to warm. Many urban areas worldwid
2022-03-18 -
Tropical carbon loss doubles due to forest clearance
Researchers using multiple high-resolution satellite observations have shown a doubling of carbon loss due to forest clearance since 2001 across the tropics, a vitally important world ecosystem that stores ~250PgC in its woody vegetation. The finding
2022-03-02 -
First-ever mapping of lacustrine algal blooms across entire globe
Algal blooms constitute an emerging threat to global inland water quality, yet the spatially and temporally detailed characterizations of lake algal bloom at the global scale remain unknown. Using 2.91 million Landsat satellite images from 1982 to 20
2022-02-21 -
SUSTech's research journal publishes signed article by Environment Minister Runqiu HUANG
Recently, Dr. Runqiu HUANG, Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China, published a signed editorial entitled “The road to China's sustainable development” in Sustainable Horizons (SH), the fir
2022-02-10 -
Researchers reveal consequences of hydropower dams on tiger and jaguar habitat
Flooding of forest habitats caused by hydropower development poses an important threat to tiger and jaguar populations. New research suggests that hydroelectric reservoirs may have caused the loss of more than one-fifth of the global population of ti
2021-12-23 -
Researchers develop advanced air quality modeling technique to help mitigate ozone pollution in China
Tropospheric ozone is a trace gas and major air pollutant with adverse impacts on human and ecosystem health. Ozone pollution in China leads to about 180,000 deaths every year, and recent observations show that ozone pollution is worsening. Because o
2021-12-10 -
Researchers provide solutions to big data and water management challenges
The advent of big data era brings brand-new opportunities and challenges to water resources research. Data crowdsourcing is an emerging approach that supports data acquisition from individual citizens, which opens new doors for big data collection an
2021-11-29 -
New findings on effect of climate change on hydrology of Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau has recently experienced noticeable climate changes. As a consequence, this has changed atmospheric and hydrological cycles and reshaped the local environment. The visible impacts of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau are obvio
2021-11-24 -
SUSTech's Yan Zheng speaks at University of Birmingham’s 2021 Li Siguang Distinguished Lecture
Li Siguang (October 26, 1889-April 29, 1971) was one of the most distinguished geologists in China. He is well known for his work in the theory of plate dynamics and understanding how continents and oceans move around the planet. He was also a pionee
2021-11-01 -
First-ever satellite mapping of lake ice over Northern Temperate Zone (NTZ) unveiled
Widespread reductions in lake ice have been detected worldwide, yet spatially detailed characterization of global lake ice is currently unavailable.Using more than half a million Landsat satellite images obtained over the past thirty-five years, a gr
2021-10-25
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