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Nokia Achieves CDP A List for Climate Change Performance

Nokia today announced that it has been recognized for its contribution towards cutting emissions, mitigating climate risks and developing a low-carbon economy.

8 Dec 2020

Abrupt Climate Change Occurred Alongside Sea Ice Decline in the North

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen have, in collaboration with Norwegian researchers in the ERC Synergy project, ICE2ICE, shown that abrupt climate change occurred as a result of widespread decrease of sea ice.

7 Dec 2020

Knowledge of Underground Life of Plants Could Help Mitigate Climate Change

Plants competing for sunlight—stretching upward and outward to block each other’s exposure to the rays of the sun—is a usual sight. However, there is another competition occurring underground, unobserved.

4 Dec 2020

Robot Fleet Used to Study how Marine Life Captures and Stores Carbon

A fleet of new-generation, deep-diving ocean robots will be deployed in the Southern Ocean, in a major study of how marine life acts as a handbrake on global warming.

4 Dec 2020

Coastal Protection Declines as Coral Reef Ecosystems Collapse Under Ocean Warming, Acidification

A new study shows the coastal protection coral reefs currently provide will start eroding by the end of the century, as the world continues to warm and the oceans acidify.

4 Dec 2020

Study Reveals How Climate Change Could Result in Irreversible Sea-Level Rise

A new study has shown how climate change could result in irrevocable sea-level rise with a continuous increase in temperatures and the continuous decline in the Greenland ice sheet.

3 Dec 2020

Study Shows How Coastal Flooding will Increase Across New York Region in Future

The region of New York recorded high flood levels that had not been witnessed for ages. The cause was Superstorm Sandy.

3 Dec 2020

Uber, Rivian, JetBlue, Cabify, and Boom Supersonic Sign The Climate Pledge

Today, during Web Summit 2020, Amazon and Global Optimism announced that Boom Supersonic, Cabify, JetBlue, Rivian, and Uber have joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement’s goal of 2050.

3 Dec 2020

Accelerating Corporate Climate Action Through Innovation

Our collective climate challenge calls for an innovative spirit and the means to turn it into concrete solutions. The newly launched Climate Innovators Network and the Solar Impulse Foundation are collaborating to accelerate tangible action to tackle climate change.

3 Dec 2020

Study Explores How the Next Supercontinent Could Affect Global Climate

Long ago, all the continents were crammed together into one large land mass called Pangea. Pangea broke apart about 200 million years ago, its pieces drifting away on the tectonic plates -- but not permanently.

2 Dec 2020