Yale School of the Environment Professor Dorceta Taylor led a four-year effort to produce the first comprehensive reference work on environmental justice issues across 26 countries and six continents.

So, you want to learn about fish. And you’ve heard that UC Santa Barbara’s Milton Love is one of the foremost ichthyologists on the West Coast, known for mixing his exhaustive knowledge on rock fishes with a pinch of irreverent humor. You pick up his new book, “Gonzo Ichthyology,” as an edifying summer read.

Wen Zhang, a New Jersey Institute of Technology professor of civil and environmental engineering, knows a thing or two about nanobubbles. While he was not involved in the recent Reflecting Pool cleanup, he shares insights addressing the technology's capabilities and how nanobubbles might perform in a project of this scope.

Scientific computing experts at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have selected the first nine research projects that will run on Discovery, the nation’s next flagship supercomputer, slated for deployment in 2028. The projects will be developed through the Discovery Center for Accelerated Application Readiness program at ORNL’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The program is designed to ensure that a suite of leading-edge scientific applications is optimized and ready to deliver results as soon as Discovery becomes operational.

New research from Murdoch University has the potential to transform the way titanium metal is produced. Murdoch’s Extractive Metallurgy Hub has been commissioned by Empire Metals to help develop an advanced process for converting titanium dioxide (TiO₂) into titanium metal using molten salt electrolysis, powered by renewable energy. This process has the potential to be a more efficient, lower-cost, and a lower-emission alternative to current methods.

Researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife are sending hundreds of grape seeds to the International Space Station, where the seeds will spend approximately six months exposed to cosmic radiation before returning to Earth for planting and study. The project could produce what researchers believe to be the first wine made from grapes grown from seeds that traveled through space.

- ORNL researchers have developed advanced tools to immediately detect abnormal power grid conditions that lead to wildfires, equipment damage and blackouts. 

- The approach incorporates artificial intelligence to rapidly analyze grid data and automatically alert a utility to dangerous grid behaviors requiring immediate response. 

- ORNL is partnering with utility Southern California Edison (SCE) to validate the technology against five years of field-collected data.

It is becoming increasingly urgent to study the impacts of climate change on the global ocean system. Future projections indicate significant changes in the Mediterranean and Atlantic circulation system, which could have unpredictable climatic consequences, especially for one of the most influential ocean currents in the global climate: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).