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Federal Government Body Sounds Climate Alarm Over Reef

A key Federal Government body has identified climate change as the greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef and is calling for greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced as urgently as possible.

18 Jul 2019

World's Erosion Experts Gather at Gateway to GBR

Leading Australian and international gully erosion experts will meet in Townsville next week and view first-hand the severe impact this type of land degradation is having on the Great Barrier Reef.

18 Jul 2019

Rotterdam: Solutions for Extreme Rainfall and Drought – The City as a Sponge

By making the city act as a sponge, the effects of climate change may be mitigated more successfully. As of the beginning of this month, Rotterdam has a Sponge Garden, intended to investigate how this can look in practice.

17 Jul 2019

Megadrought Caused Mega Biodiversity Loss

Researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have painstakingly reconstructed the nation’s ‘once in a century drought’ in the early 1900s, revealing that it caused mass ecosystem collapse and dramatic declines in plant and animal populations across more than a third of the continent.

16 Jul 2019

Breeding Cattle to Reduce their Methane Emissions

An international group of researchers has demonstrated that cattle can be bred to minimize their methane emissions.

8 Jul 2019

Study Finds Additional Pathway for Carbon into Rivers from Deforested Lands

According to new research by scientists at Florida State University, thousand-year-old tropical soil unearthed by speeding up agriculture land use and deforestation could release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

25 Jun 2019

Compostable Food Containers Could Release PFAS into Environment

Compostable food containers seem like a great idea: They degrade into nutrient-rich organic matter, reducing waste and the need for chemical fertilizers.

31 May 2019

Deforestation Affects Abundance, Biomass, Richness, and Diversity of Soil Fauna and Microbes

Presently, one of the greatest threats to tropical biodiversity conservation is the clearing and subsequent instability of Amazonian forests.

27 May 2019

Researchers Conduct the First Detailed Study of How Rural Communities Interact with Peatlands

A team of UK and Peruvian scientists have conducted the first comprehensive survey of how rural communities interact with peatlands in the Peruvian Amazon, a landscape that is one of the world’s largest stores of carbon.

22 May 2019

Circa Group's Renewable Solvent Wins Environmental Leader’s Top Product 2019 Award

CyreneTM, a bio-based, renewable solvent produced by biotechnology company Circa Group, has won Top Product 2019 at the Environmental Leader (EL) and Energy Manager Today (EMT) Awards.

From Circa Group Ltd 17 May 2019