The Bigger Picture

“Our approach is novel in that we have demonstrated, for the first time, that time-series satellite-based multispectral data is nearly as effective as drone/airborne hyperspectral imaging for high-throughput foliar trait monitoring,” said Professor Wu Jin from the...

Everything under the Sun

Carbon-heavy methane ranks high on the climate change blacklist, with a global warming potential that is more than 80 times that of carbon dioxide over a period of 20 years. It is also in abundant supply – the recent global increase in methane (CH4) is primarily...

A Garden Grows at HKU

Jane Zhang Qinya, a fourth-year BA(Linguistics) student, spent much of her first three years at HKU doing online learning due to pandemic restrictions. It could get lonely, so she sought company through online events to connect with others. One of her most fruitful...

Golden Oldies

The findings have thrown up something of an environmental irony. “Global forests have been gradually shifting to a younger age structure owing to major reasons like deforestation, natural regeneration and human reforestation. As a result, younger trees are playing an...

Vision for a Village

Kuk Po village and the surrounding valley lie next to the sea facing China’s industrial conglomerate Shenzhen. It has been largely empty for decades as villagers left rural life for the city. More recently though, their descendants are showing renewed interest in Kuk...