Carbon Sinks Losing Ground

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...

Sink or Swim?

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...

Termites’ Role in Sorting out Droughts

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...