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CLIMATE-KIC Honors Nerdalize with Europe’s Best Climate Venture Award

Climate-KIC has announced cleantech start-up Nerdalize from the Netherlands as the winner of the European finals of the Venture Competition 2015 last night in Birmingham (UK).

2 Nov 2015

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Sees Seasonal Change Patterns and Carbon Dioxide Variations around the Globe

Scientists busy poring over more than a year of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission are seeing patterns emerge as they seek answers to the science questions that drive the mission.

2 Nov 2015

Vanderbilt University Decreases Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions decreased by 18 percent from its peak in 2008 and by 13 percent overall from calendar years 2005 to 2014, according to the Vanderbilt Sustainability and Environmental Management Office’s latest annual GHG inventory.

30 Oct 2015

Haze Due to Air Pollution Reducing Surface Solar Radiation in China

Haze due to weak winds and air pollution is reducing surface solar radiation in China, which has major consequences for the climate, the environment and the economy. These are the findings of a research report now being published in Scientific Reports. An international team of researchers including those from the University of Gothenburg is behind the study.

29 Oct 2015

NPL Supports Decarbonathon Competition

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is supporting a new competition to identify innovative technologies that reduce carbon emissions and bring them to market quicker.

28 Oct 2015

UC Riverside Names Climate Action Champion and Climate Neutrality Fellows

The University of California, Riverside has announced the name of the professor who has been named a climate action champion and the students who have been named climate neutrality fellows.

27 Oct 2015

Allocation of Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Reductions Key for Outcome of World Climate Summit

Though most countries around the globe agree that warming must be limited to 2 degrees Celsius to avoid the raft of climate risks, they clash about who should do what to reach this target.

27 Oct 2015

Ancient Permafrost Thawed by Changing Climate Could Release Massive Amounts of Carbon Dioxide

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and key academic partners including the University of Colorado Boulder have quantified how rapidly ancient permafrost decomposes upon thawing and how much carbon dioxide is produced in the process.

27 Oct 2015

Unprecedented Deadly Heat due to Climate Change Could hit the Persian Gulf Region

Within this century, parts of the Persian Gulf region could be hit with unprecedented events of deadly heat as a result of climate change, according to a study of high-resolution climate models.

27 Oct 2015

Scientists Call on Policymakers to Plant More Trees to Help Protect River Habitats from Climate Change

New research has prompted scientists to call on policymakers to plant more trees alongside upland rivers and streams, in an effort to save their habitats from the future harm of climate change.

26 Oct 2015