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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ima...
SUSTech’s Junguo LIU awarded as the Paul A. Witherspoon Lecturer
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) recently announced its list of AGU awards/honors for renowned experts in various fields in 2021. Seventy-eight scientists from all over the world received accolade...