Zum ersten Mal wurde in einer Studie der wirtschaftliche Schaden des Klimawandels für die Skiindustrie geschätzt. Die Studie der Universität Innsbruck und der University of Waterloo in Kanada deckt auf, dass die volkswirtschaftlichen Verluste der US-Skiindustrie durch den vom Menschen verursachten Klimawandel in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten mehr als 5 Milliarden US-Dollar betrugen. (more…)
AUSTIN, Texas — More than 2 billion people, approximately a quarter of the world’s population, lack access to clean drinking water. A new, portable and affordable water filtration solution created by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin aims to change that. (more…)
AUSTIN, Texas — A new farming system developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin aims to solve one of the biggest problems in modern agriculture: the overuse of fertilizers to improve crop yields and the resulting chemical runoff that pollutes the world’s air and water. (more…)
AUSTIN, Texas —A study of almost 2 million U.S. residents across 199 cities shows that rising housing costs may drive increases in “openness” of character among residents of a city — all in well under a decade. The findings, published in the journal American Psychologist, indicate that increasing affluence can rapidly change a city’s personality by attracting certain types of newcomers and by changing the environment around established residents. (more…)
New approach developed by UCLA’s Seulgi Moon
Each year, landslides kill thousands of people around the world and cause catastrophic property damage. But scientists are still trying to better understand the circumstances that cause them. Doing so would go a long way toward helping people predict where landslides could occur and how severe they might be. (more…)
University startup uPetsia has licensed the technology to develop it and take it to the marketplace.
University of Arizona researchers have developed a harmless bacteria strain to battle bad breath in our furry friends. (more…)
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Texas — Slow slip earthquakes, a type of slow motion tremor, have
been detected at many of the world’s earthquake hotspots, including
those found around the Pacific Ring of Fire, but it is unclear how
they are connected to the damaging quakes that occur there.
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have now revealed the
earthquakes’ inner workings using seismic CT scans and
supercomputers to examine a region off the coast of New Zealand known
to produce them.
Why recycle?
Why do we need to recycle cardboards? Why not just dump them at the landfills and let them rot back to their organic origins? Well, there are a number of reasons why we need and indeed should recycle cardboard boxes and pieces; but probably the easiest answer to that question is simply because we can. However, conserving the environment while preserving our natural resources, cutting down on carbon emissions, saving money through reuse of resources and so on also form good arguments as to why we should recycle. (more…)
