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Researchers Highlight 'Multiple Contradictions' in the Pathways to Net Zero Climate Targets

There should be greater investment in using a wider group of experts to make decisions about how the landscape is managed if the UK is to reach climate targets such as net zero, a new report warns.

28 Jan 2022

Study Finds Tradeoff Between Farm Conservation Practices and Water Quality

With water quality guidelines compelling more farmers to act on nitrogen loss, cover crops and split nitrogen applications are becoming more common in the Midwest. But new University of Illinois research shows these conservation practices may not provide environmental benefits across the board.

28 Jan 2022

Crystallization Rate of Coral Skeletons is Correlated with Resilience to Ocean Acidification

A new University of Wisconsin–Madison study has implications for predicting coral reef survival and developing mitigation strategies against having their bony skeletons weakened by ocean acidification.

28 Jan 2022

Caribou and Muskoxen Help Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change on Rare Arctic Plants

Being common is rather unusual. It's far more common for a species to be rare, spending its existence in small densities throughout its range. How such rare species persist, particularly in an environment undergoing rapid climate change, inspired a 15-year study in arctic Greenland from the University of California, Davis.

28 Jan 2022

Study Evaluates the Combined Effects of Climate Change and Land Use in a Rapidly Developing Watershed

When rain falls, it picks up pollution from streets, farms and other manmade features as it winds toward the ocean.

28 Jan 2022

Efficient Process Design Produces Renewable Fuels from Waste PPE

As the severity of an extended pandemic is on the rise, the world determines an increasing and never-ending waste stream of utilized plastic face shields, surgical masks, gowns, and medical gloves. Currently, engineers from Cornell University provide a solution to bearably reroute the thrown away material.

28 Jan 2022

New, Cost-Effective Artificial Leaf can Capture 100 Times More Carbon than Current Systems

Engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago have built a cost-effective artificial leaf that can capture carbon dioxide at rates 100 times better than current systems. Unlike other carbon capture systems, which work in labs with pure carbon dioxide from pressurized tanks, this artificial leaf works in the real world.

28 Jan 2022

Research Offers New Insight into How Our Early Ancestors Dealt with Climate Change

New insight into how our early ancestors dealt with major shifts in climate is revealed in research, published today [27 Jan] in Nature Ecology & Evolution, by an international team, led by Professor Rick Schulting from Oxford University's School of Archaeology.

28 Jan 2022

UD Researchers Prepare to Produce the Next Generation of Sustainably Minded Engineers

As world leaders gathered in the United Kingdom this fall to address the climate crisis, a team of researchers at the University of Delaware prepared to produce the next generation of sustainably minded engineers.

28 Jan 2022

Rising Gas Prices Contribute to Steep Decline in the Development of Forest and Agricultural Land

A new study found a steep decline in the development of forest and agricultural land from 2000 to 2015 compared to the previous two decades, which resulted in a broad shift towards denser development patterns throughout the U.S. A primary culprit was rising gas prices.

28 Jan 2022

Gas Stoves Emit Far More Methane than Once Thought

Humans have cooked with fire for millennia, but it may be time for a change. Natural gas appliances warm the planet in two ways: generating carbon dioxide by burning natural gas as a fuel and leaking unburned methane into the air.

28 Jan 2022

AWS Wave Energy Converter Arrives in Orkney for EMEC Demo

A new wave energy converter, developed by Inverness-based AWS Ocean Energy, has arrived in Orkney ahead of its imminent deployment at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC).

From European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd. 28 Jan 2022

UK Nuclear Stations Make Colossal £100 Billion Carbon Saving

The UK’s existing nuclear stations have saved £110 billion worth of carbon at current prices, according to new analysis by the Nuclear Industry Association. The figure is based on the 1.4 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions saved by the AGR stations and Sizewell B, making them the greenest assets in British history.

28 Jan 2022

Study Indicates Future Forests Will Have Smaller Trees Resulting in Less Uptake of Carbon

University of Arizona-led team of scientists may have developed the next best thing to a crystal ball to inform ecologists how forests of the future will react to the changing climate.

27 Jan 2022

Research Provides the Most Accurate Record of Air Pollution by Nanoplastics

In a new study, Empa researcher Dominik Brunner, together with colleagues from Utrecht University and the Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, is investigating how much plastic is trickling down on us from the atmosphere.

27 Jan 2022