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The Allen Coral Atlas maps the world’s coral reefs and monitors their threats to provide actionable data and a shared understanding of coastal ecosystems. Arizona State University’s Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science (GDCS) and partners are working to expand the Allen Coral Atlas. With the Atlas, coral conservationists, reef managers and scientists have access to high quality information that has never before been available at this global scale.

The University of Nairobi (UoN) and IFC, a member of the World Bank, signed a partnership to increase awareness of green building design among university students and professionals and help drive the adoption of sustainable and environmentally friendly construction practices in Kenya.

The Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute, a new Centre of Excellence (CoE) dedicated to research into coastal protection and flood resilience, has been formally launched at a ceremony held at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new type of material that could offer a sustainable and eco-friendly solution to clean pollutants from water.

Air pollution dramatically reduces pollination because it degrades the scent of flowers, affecting bees’ ability to find them, a study has found. A research team including the University of Reading found that ozone substantially changes the size and scent of floral odour plumes. It reduced honeybees' ability to recognise odours by up to 90% from just a few metres away.

The University of Melbourne Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) has partnered with Ørsted, the world’s largest offshore wind developer, to bolster Australia’s shift towards renewable energy.

Civil engineers at Monash University have developed a software called GeoXPM that can not only predict where a disaster like a landslide, avalanche or a mine tailings dam failure could potentially occur; but also their impacts on geo-structures and environment, and suggest design changes that could avert loss of life.

The University of Nairobi was lauded for its leadership role in climate change action through its various contribution of human resource, research and its academic centres of excellence.