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Climate Change May Drastically Increase Variability in Nile's Annual Output, Find MIT Researchers

Climate change could lead to overall increase in river flow, but more droughts and floods, study shows.

25 Apr 2017

New Project Aims to Remove Greenhouse Gases to Counteract Global Warming

A University of Bristol academic will lead one of seven topic-specific projects announced yesterday by NERC as part of a £8.6million research programme which will investigate ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to counteract global warming.

24 Apr 2017

Sustainability Leadership Efforts at UNH Contribute to Groundbreaking Initiative to Reduce Nitrogen Footprint

Sustainability leadership efforts at the University of New Hampshire have contributed to a groundbreaking initiative to measure and reduce the nitrogen footprint left behind by campus activities like food waste and energy consumption.

19 Apr 2017

Solar Powered Water Harvester Can Draw Out Liters of Water from Desert Air

Researchers form UC Berkeley have demonstrated a water harvester device that is capable of pulling liters of water out of the air in desert like conditions. Whats better is that is powered directly from the sun.

14 Apr 2017

New Catalyst for Efficiently Converting Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide

A new catalyst capable of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO) in an efficient manner has been invented by researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

7 Apr 2017

New UCLA-Led Research to Focus on Potentials, Drawbacks of Climate Engineering Technologies

A new research project focusing on the potentials and drawbacks of climate engineering technologies will be headed by Edward Parson, the Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law at UCLA and co-director of the Emmett Institute.

7 Apr 2017

New Study Reveals Safety Risk of Potentially Explosive Methane Gas Leaking from Energy Wells

Potentially explosive methane gas leaking from energy wells may travel extensively through groundwater and pose a safety risk, according to a new study by University of Guelph researchers.

6 Apr 2017

Unidentified Regulatory Mechanism Prevented Extreme Climate Cooling During the Ice Ages

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations swung over a range of 100 ppm (parts per million, by volume) during the ice ages. The exact processes behind this variation have been difficult to pinpoint, but it is known that changes in the storage of carbon by photosynthetic organisms played an important role.

15 Mar 2017

New Study Makes Major Step to Estimate Historical Ocean Heat Content Change

The Earth's energy imbalance (EEI) drives global warming, because our planet traps more heat due to the continuous increase of greenhouse gases. From the energy perspective, global warming is really ocean warming, as more than 90% of the trapped heat is stored in the ocean.

14 Mar 2017

Study Reveals that Relationship Between Biodiversity and Carbon Storage in Rainforests Not as Strong as Once Assumed

Conservationists working to safeguard tropical forests often assume that old growth forests containing great stores of carbon also hold high biodiversity, but a new study finds that the relationship may not be as strong as once thought, according to a group of researchers with contributions from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other organizations.

10 Mar 2017