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 ...
SUSTech scientist contributes to global progress of MAR to ensure humanities access to good quality freshwater
On 31st August 2022, Professor Yan Zheng from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE) at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) gave an invited speech at th...
Revealing response pattern of anthropogenic volatile organic compound emissions to urbanization in Asia
As one of the most severe environmental issues apace with urbanization, air pollution poses significant threats to public health and the ecosystem in populous Asia. Emissions of air pollutants and the...
Researchers make progress in study of groundwater in Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings, also known as the Third Pole, are widely acknowledged as the Asian water tower. It holds glaciers with an area of about one hundred thousand square kilometers...
Researchers demonstrate AI’s ability to restore wind speed datasets with 88% missing values
Wind speed data is widely used in many sciences, management, and policy fields to assess renewable energy potential, address wind hazards, investigate biological phenomena, and explore climate change/...