15 February 2021
New study indicates that reflecting solar energy back to space in an attempt to reduce global warming could cause more problems than it solves.
Increasing emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, resulting in an accelerating rise in atmospheric temperature, are creating a hugely significant challenge to people and the planet.
Scientists are looking into the plausibility of ideas that aim to limit the effects of climate change, while carbon emissions from humans burning fossil fuels continue to over-insulate the planet. Solar geoengineering proposes to reflect incoming sunlight back into space by deliberately releasing reflective particles into the upper atmosphere where they block the sun s warming rays.
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SLTC’s Prof. Dushantha Jayakody elevated to grade of Fellow at IET Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
Head of School of Postgraduate Studies and Research at Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC) Professor Dushantha Jayakody was recently felicitated as a Fellow of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) which is the highest grade of Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) membership.
This title was awarded to the distinguished academic to honor his yeoman service to the field of engineering spanning decades; he had demonstrated excellence in all categories under which Fellows are assessed prior to being bestowed with the title. The criteria for qualification include leadership, responsibility, insight & experience, creativity, innovation, enterprise, service, reputation and influence & contribution. IET is the largest multidisciplinary professional engineering institution in the world.
Africaâs elephants are going hungry because there arenât enough fruits on trees
Africaâs elephants are going hungry because there arenât enough fruits on trees
On average, elephants and other animals would have found ripe fruit on one in every 10 trees in the 1980s, but need to search more than 50 trees today.
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The behaviour and life cycles of the largest animals on the planet are incredibly important for the healthy functioning of our planetâs life support systems. Unfortunately, many big species now face extinction due to their value in the illegal wildlife trade, vulnerability to habitat degradation and because they often come into conflict with humans.
It’s difficult to see what the military will gain from seizing power.
Protests have rocked Myanmar in recent days as people take to the streets demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s de factor leader who was arrested alongside the president, Win Myint, on February 1 when the military seized power.
We speak to DB Subedi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New England in Australia, who explains that the Myanmar of 2021 is a very different place to the country which emerged from nearly 50 years of military rule in 2011. “They know the difference,” he says. “How it feels to live under under a democratically elected government with political freedom.”
The emergence of microbiome testing at home is advancing to a point in which people may be able to test their gut after a meal or when they have digestive issues, according to an expert.
In a presentation kicking off the final session of NutraIngredients Probiota Digital Summit yesterday (11 Feb), Dr Ruiari Robertson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, predicted the emergence of home testing made possible by the gains made in analysis methods.
“The reason this field has expanded in the last few years is because of the advances in sequencing technology. Traditional sequencers are large, big hardware devices that sit on a desk in a lab.