To prevent climate change, Europe and the world must shift to low-carbon renewable energies. Hydrogen, as an energy vector, provides viable solutions for replacing polluting carbon-emitting fossil fuels. Gaseous hydrogen can be stored underground coupled with existing natural gas pipe networks. Salt cavern storage is best suited technology meet challenges of new systems. Hydrogen caverns are cu...

Over the past decade, there has been a surge in drilling for natural gas and oil in shale rock. Natural gas and oil extraction using high-volume, slickwater hydraulic fracturing from clustered multiwell pads using long, directionally drilled laterals (known by its popular name ‘fracking’), is an unconventional extraction process that is currently the focus of controversy. The process involves t...

Foredune trough blowouts are elongated wind-eroded depressions in the most seaward dune and their adjoining depositional lobes. Despite importance to sand budget floral diversity of coastal dunes, spatiotemporal evolution is not well understood. We designed an automated workflow Google Earth Engine platform produce time series blowout surface area from medium-resolution satellite imagery availa...

Seven pure-culture strains of fungi cultivated by attine ants (ant-garden fungi) were isolated from locally maintained leaf-cutting ant colonies. An ant-garden fungus strain obtained from an Atta cephalotes colony, when offered to ants of the colony from which the fungus was isolated, was accepted as their own. Young fungus cultures were harvested and incorporated into the fungus garden, and cu...