by admin | Nov 7, 2020
Corals and mangroves are like canaries in the climate change coalmine. Research has shown that these ecosystems are already experiencing harm that may get much worse. But recent work by scholars in HKU’s Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) and their...
by admin | Nov 7, 2020
A great mystery in palaeoclimatology is the timing and magnitude of the second largest meltwater pulse (MWP-1B). A meltwater pulse is an abrupt rise in sea levels caused by a sudden influx of meltwater. The first MWP, known as 1A, is well documented but until now the...
by admin | Nov 7, 2020
Intact tropical forests that are untouched by human activity absorbed 17 per cent of human-made carbon dioxin emissions in the 1990s, or about 46 billion tonnes. But two decades later that has fallen to six per cent, or 25 billion tonnes. The compromised capacity...
by | May 7, 2020
A course on aquaculture was the inspiration for HKU students to design a new kind of raft for cultivating oysters and then launch a start-up company, Soonlution, to develop and market it. Called the Modern Shellfish Home (MSH), it is specifically designed to withstand...
by | Nov 7, 2019
The findings are the result of collaborative research, co-headed by Dr Louise Ashton of HKU’s School of Biological Sciences, and research teams led by Dr Kate Parr from the University of Liverpool and Dr Paul Eggleton from the Natural History Museum in London. The...
