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Climate Change Impacts East Antarctic Ice Sheet

If countries throughout the world are successful in fulfilling the climate targets stated in the Paris Agreement, the disastrous impacts of global warming on the greatest ice sheet in the world may be avoided.

11 Aug 2022

Australia's Global Role in Helping Safeguard Nuclear Technologies

ANSTO, Australia’s knowledge centre for nuclear science and technology, is playing a vital role in a global monitoring system designed to ensure peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

From ANSTO (Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) 5 Aug 2022

Warm Waters Marching South Threaten the East Antartic Ice Sheet

New research by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, in partnership with the University of Southampton in the UK, has revealed for the first time how changes in Southern Ocean circulation are affecting the East Antarctic ice sheet.

3 Aug 2022

Climate Change Could Become Catastrophic Even at Modest Levels of Warming

Global warming could become “catastrophic” for humanity if temperature increases are worse than anticipated or trigger cascades of events yet to be considered, or indeed both.

2 Aug 2022

Disposable Paper Battery: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Single-Use Electronics

Researchers at the Cellulose & Wood Materials Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have been working on a disposable paper battery that could reduce the environmental impact of single-use electronics.

1 Aug 2022

Analyzing 56-Million-Year-Old Sediments to Help Understand Global Warming

Sediments in the Tremp-Graus basin (on the border between Lleida and Huesca) that date back 56 million years have been investigated by the Department of Geology at the UPV/EHU.

1 Aug 2022

Energy-Saving Cooling Systems for a Warmer World

Air-conditioning needs an energy overhaul--PNNL research provides a roadmap to get there using energy efficient adsorption cooling.

28 Jul 2022

Excessive Heat in the Deeper Sub-polar North Atlantic Ocean Triggers Global Climate Change

Excessive cooling events defined as Heinrich Events in the North Atlantic during the last glacial period are a perfect example of how local processes affect global climate.

27 Jul 2022

Human-Caused Emissions Likely to Increase More Extreme Heatwaves

July 19 was the hottest day ever recorded in the United Kingdom, with temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Celsius (about 104 degrees Fahrenheit).

26 Jul 2022

Exposure to Extreme Heat Worsens Malnutrition Among Young Children

Exposure to extreme heat increases both chronic and acute malnutrition among infants and young children in low-income countries – threatening to reverse decades of progress, Cornell University research finds.

26 Jul 2022