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Researchers Optimise Green Methanol Production to Reduce Transport Carbon Emissions

For the last year, ten European and Japanese research expert organisations have been working together on the LAURELIN project to develop innovative processes to convert CO2 in renewable methanol.

15 Jul 2022

Establishing Mitigation Pathways for a Climate-Neutral Austria

Over the next three years, more than 120 scientists will be working on a new comprehensive climate report for Austria. IIASA is taking a leading role in the activities with IIASA researchers Keywan Riahi and Daniel Huppmann serving as co-chairs of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change.

14 Jul 2022

Glaciers in the Andes Mountains and Polar Regions Experience Similar Impact from Climate Change

Glaciers in tropical mountain ranges are experiencing similar impact from the drivers of climate change as those in the polar regions of Antarctica and the Northern Hemisphere, according to a study published today in Nature.

14 Jul 2022

WEG to Launch 7MW Wind Turbine

Global industrial equipment manufacturer, WEG has announced it will launch a new 7 MW wind turbine, provides greater power and efficiency for wind generation projects.

From WEG S.A. 14 Jul 2022

How to Distil the 'Good Oil' from the Sea

To save the world’s fish stocks and oceans, scientists are racing to find better and sustainable ways to make healthy nutritional products such as Omega-3 fatty acids, biodiesel, aquaculture and livestock food from fast-growing microalgae.

14 Jul 2022

On the ‘Elevator to Extinction’: Arctic-alpine Plants Endangered in Scottish Highlands

Rare arctic-alpine plants are being driven higher up Scotland’s mountains by climate change and will soon become extinct if we don’t intervene, new research from the University of Stirling has found.

14 Jul 2022

Could Naming Heatwaves Help the UK Prepare for Them?

According to the leading researchers, the UK must name heatwaves as part of an efficient early warning system to safeguard the most at risk.

13 Jul 2022

Plankton Likely to Store More Carbon in the Next Century

In the coming century, experts at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Bristol expect that the quantity of carbon stored by tiny plankton will grow.

12 Jul 2022

Climate Change Reveals a Treasure Trove of Information in Melting Ice Patches

One day more than 3000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. The owner probably considered the shoe to be lost for good, but on 17 September 2007 it was found again - virtually intact.

12 Jul 2022