Khawlani Coffee Chronicles: A Voyage from Roots to Riches
Dr. Khadija Mehrez's team interviewed Khawlani coffee farmers in Jazan and proposed marketing, training and water-saving strategies to raise coffee quality and farmers' incomes.
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Environment
Climate, pollution, agriculture, food systems and natural resources.
The Secrets of Bali’s Ancient Sustainable Water Practices
Dr. I Made Geria's team shows how ancient Balinese water management, from subak irrigation to protected springs, grew from the Tri Hita Karana philosophy of balancing people, nature and the divine.
Transforming Solar Power with Advanced Enhancer Assessment Techniques
Dr. Sakhr Sultan's team developed three assessment methods that factor lifespan into comparing solar panel coolers and reflectors, giving a fairer measure of their long-term cost-effectiveness.
Nature’s Ingenuity in Flood Control: Expert Opinions on Eco-Centric Approaches
Pénélope Brueder's team interviewed flood management experts and found that theorists and practitioners understand nature-based solutions differently, pointing to a need for broader dialogue.
Revolutionizing Electromagnetic Wave Absorption with Rare Earth Elements
Professor Zhihui Zeng's team reviews how adding rare earth elements, through doping or rare earth oxide composites, improves materials designed to absorb electromagnetic waves.
IPCC 2006 guidelines can change national greenhouse gas inventories
Professor Seungdo Kim and Dr. Kaleem Anwar Mir found that newer IPCC guidelines give Pakistan lower national greenhouse gas totals than older guidelines, shifting which emissions to prioritize.
Inter-basin Transfer schemes, the big elephant in the room
Modelling by Dr. Majed Khadem's team suggests that transferring water from Kielder reservoir to London in winter could meet the capital's shortfall without harming the donor basin.
Unexpected drought in Subtropical Eastern Australia and its Environmental factors
Dr. Hanh Nguyen's team traced flash droughts in subtropical eastern Australia and linked them to a rare combination of climate drivers, offering some predictability for such events.
Addressing global rice scarcity with new salt-tolerant crops
Professor Meixue Zhou and colleagues review the genetic, molecular and physiological mechanisms behind salt tolerance in rice to guide the breeding of new salt-tolerant varieties.
Spatial and temporal analysis of extreme weather events in the Mediterranean basin
Professor Eva Paton and Johannes Vogel found that warm spells coinciding with drought have become markedly more frequent across the Mediterranean basin over recent decades, driven mainly by heat.
Understanding hydro-meteorology of an extreme hurricane event
Professor Jorge González's team recreated Hurricane Maria with a weather model, linking its extreme rain to record-warm seas and weak wind shear and mapping risks to Puerto Rico's power poles.
Creating a near-miss database of compound weather disasters
Dr. Gordon Woo argues that studying near-misses and alternative outcomes of past weather disasters, collected in a database of counterfactual compound events, would make risk models more robust.