SUSTech’s Feng YAN wins Ecology and Environmental Young Science and Technology Gold Award
On May 25, 2022, the Guangdong Society of Environmental Sciences (GDSES) announced its list of winners for the 2022 GDSES Ecology and Environmental Young Science and Technology Awards.Feng YAN, Resear...
Researchers reveal recent stabilization of nitrous oxide emissions from livestock production in China
Global livestock production is a major source of N2O emissions, accounting for approximately 24-44% of the total global anthropogenic emissions. The consumption of livestock products is projected to i...
Researchers demonstrate efficient atmospheric transport of microplastics over Asia and adjacent oceans
Microplastics (MPs) are small plastic particles <5 mm in size. The rapid accumulation of MPs in the environment has become a severe problem, endangering the health of terrestrial and aquatic biotas...
Significant progress in resource recycling and pollution control chemistry
Associate Professor Hong Chen’s research team from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has recently made a series of prog...
Researchers publish series of developments on extreme hydrological events and extreme climate influence on hydrological processes
Research Assistant Professor Wei Qi’s team from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has recently achieved a series of imp...
Researchers reveal progress in role of organic and conservation agriculture in ammonia emissions and crop productivity in China
There is an increasing food demand with a growing population and limited land for agriculture. However, conventional agriculture with nitrogen (N) fertilizer applications is a key source of ammonia (N...
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 cl...
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 s...
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 2.9...
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 developmen...