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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.

An IUCA networking event was held as part of the 11th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC11), bringing together representatives from across the world.

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.

King’s College London will contribute its expertise to a major collaborative project aiming to examine how the environmental impact of fashion is measured.

To better understand this invisible population and its adaptation to climate change, the Sorbonne University Alliance’s Ocean Institute and the French Navy are joining forces with the international Plankton Planet program in a scientific observation mission unique in the world: the Bougainville Mission.

Caltech Class Project Turns Seawater into Hydrogen Fuel. Challenging undergraduates to develop chemical engineering solutions to real-world problems. This year, they took on how to use hydrogen to make trucking greener.