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A Shift Towards Hydrogen-Powered Mobility Could Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

A partial transition of German road transport to hydrogen energy is among the possibilities being discussed to help meet national climate targets. A team of researchers from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) has examined the hypothetical transition to a hydrogen-powered transport sector through several scenarios.

2 Dec 2020

Cost of Preserving, Planting Trees to Achieve Emissions Reductions Could Accelerate Quickly

Planting trees and preventing deforestation are considered key climate change mitigation strategies, but a new analysis finds the cost of preserving and planting trees to hit certain global emissions reductions targets could accelerate quickly.

2 Dec 2020

Planting and Protecting Trees can Help Mitigate Climate Change

According to a new study, climate change could be mitigated through extensive management and protection of forests from deforestation, but these measures will involve a high cost if deployed at a large scale, as discussed by policymakers.

2 Dec 2020

Groundwater Reservoirs in Bavaria have Turned Warmer due to Climate Change

In the last few decades, groundwater reservoirs in Bavaria have heated up significantly. Scientists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have now compared temperatures at 35 measuring stations, taken at various depths, with the 1990s data.

2 Dec 2020

New Network Focuses on Making Enhanced Landfill Mining a Reality in the UK

Cranfield University has assembled a network of the UK's leaders in landfill management, engineering and development to focus on making enhanced landfill mining a reality in the UK. They will be targeting the more than 20,000 former sites across the UK.

1 Dec 2020

Study Shows How Projected Climate Scenarios Have Evolved Over Time

Under the worst-case scenarios laid out in the United Nations' climate change projections, global temperatures would increase more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) by 2100, leading to at least 1.5 feet (0.5 meters) in global sea level rise and an array of disastrous consequences for people and planet.

1 Dec 2020

Brahmaputra’s Potential for Catastrophic Flooding as Climate Warms may be Underestimated

A new study looking at seven centuries of water flow in south Asia's mighty Brahmaputra River suggests that scientists are underestimating the river's potential for catastrophic flooding as climate warms. The revelation comes from examinations of tree rings, which showed rainfall patterns going back centuries before instrumental and historical records.

1 Dec 2020