Microplastics have been found in historic soil samples for the first time, according to a new study, potentially upending the way archaeological remains are preserved.
Murky wastewater from washing uncooked staples like rice or soybeans may eventually become ‘microbial factories to grow food for fish at an industrial scale.
PARIS (AFP) - Climate change may have played a key role in the transmission of the coronavirus to humans by driving several species of pathogen-carrying bats into closer contact, research showed on Friday (Feb 5).
The virus, which has killed more than 2.2 million people and caused unprecedented global disruption, is thought to have originated in bats in South-east Asia.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge used temperature and rainfall data over the last 100 years to model populations of dozens of bat species based on their habitat requirements.
They found that over the last century, 40 species had relocated to southern China, Laos and Myanmar - the area where genetic analysis suggests the virus known as Sars-CoV-2 first appeared.