Serious threat to biodiversity hotspots due to mountain forests being lost at accelerating rate
Previously, forest loss primarily occurred in lowlands where forests are easy to access, and mountain areas had limited forest loss due to their rugged location. However, since the turn of the 21st ce...
Floating solar photovoltaic systems on global reservoirs hold great potential for enormous energy production and water savings
Growing global energy use and the adoption of sustainability goals to limit carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning are increasing the demand for clean energy, including solar. Floating photovoltaic...
SUSTech Feng Lian's team's Nature cover article reveals the increasing trend of global coastal phytoplankton blooms
Recently, Associate professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Lian Feng’s research group published a research paper entitled "Coastal phytoplankton blooms expand an...
Researchers develop membrane-free electrochemical system for high-efficient and high-purity phosphate recovery
Phosphorus (P) is often regarded as the primary stimulant for eutrophication, while its vital role in industrial and environmental development is also well acknowledged. Given its future scarcity, P r...
Developing dynamic engineering adaptive pathway to reduce flood risk in coastal cities under deep uncertainty based on “regret” theory
Uncertainty in sea level rise and future extreme climate events presents a great planning challenge for flood defence in coastal mega cities like Shanghai. While academic literature has largely focuse...
Global hydropower at important crossroads: the global unused profitable hydropower potential is 5.27 PWh per year
Hydropower is a relatively cost-effective energy source, expected to play a key role in the transition of some nations to decarbonized energy systems. However, the development of hydropower is controv...
Researchers create framework to identify antibiotic-resistance genes and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in nanopore reads
Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent discharge could induce resistome enrichment in the receiving water environments. However, because of the general lack of a robust antibiotic-resistant bacter...
Surface wind speed reversal in China and its impact on wind power and sand-dust storm
Global wind speed has been reported to reverse after a long period of decreasing. Increased wind speed can not only bring additional wind power but also increase the risk of sand-dust storms. The quan...
SUSTech’s Junjian WANG receives CSSS Outstanding Young Scholar Award
The Soil Science Society of China (CSSS) recently announced the results of its 8th CSSS Outstanding Young Scholar Award.Associate Professor Junjian WANG from the School of Environmental Science a...
Researchers reveal rapidly changing emissions drove substantial surface and tropospheric ozone increases over Southeast Asia
Tropospheric ozone is an air pollutant, a greenhouse gas, and an oxidant affecting climate and chemistry. In Southeast Asia (Figure 1), including the Peninsular Southeast Asia (PSEA) and the Maritime ...