by Helen Bunting | May 3, 2025
Seagrass habitats support biodiversity, improve water quality, protect coastlines, and sequester carbon, among other essential ecosystem functions, yet they are declining worldwide due to human activity. Seagrass restoration and conservation can act as nature-based...
by Helen Bunting | Apr 27, 2025
Plant pests and diseases (PPDs) pose a serious threat to trees and forests globally. The UK Plant Health Risk Register (PHRR) provides semiquantitative estimates of invasion probability and impact on host plants for PPDs thought to pose a risk to the United Kingdom to...
by Caroline Kennedy | Apr 25, 2025
High yielding perennial grasses are utilised as biomass for the bioeconomy and to displace fossil fuels. Miscanthus is a perennial grass used as a source of biomass but most of the cultivated crop is limited to a naturally occurring hybrid M. ×...
by Helen Bunting | Apr 24, 2025
Trade of hydrogen, as an energy commodity, would enable its widespread use in global energy systems. Hydrogen, unlike electricity, could be traded globally in its pure form or as a derivative compound (e.g. ammonia). The development and potential size of global...
by Helen Bunting | Apr 14, 2025
Limited progress with mitigation makes it almost inevitable that global warming of 1.5°C will be exceeded. This realization confronts Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with a choice either to stabilize warming above but as...
