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New Study Reveals Potential Underestimation of Forest Carbon Stocks

UK forests could store almost double the amount of carbon than previous calculations suggest, with consequences for our understanding of carbon stocks and humanity's response to climate change, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.

21 Dec 2022

Research Helps Understand How Land Plants Affect the Climate

Scientists have discovered that the atmosphere contained far less CO2 than previously thought when forests emerged on our planet, the new study has important implications for understanding how land plants affect the climate.

21 Dec 2022

Robust Liability Framework Needed to Encourage Safe Expansion and Use of Carbon Capture

"Robust" amendments to insurance law and international environmental law are needed to allow carbon capture, utilisation and storage to take place legally so the technology can be used in the fight against global warming, a new study says.

21 Dec 2022

Animals Play Unique and Vital Role in Reforestation, Study Says

As nations meet this week in Montreal on efforts to address an unprecedented loss of biodiversity -; more than a million species are threatened with extinction -; a new study published in The Royal Society journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B points to the unique and vital role animals play in reforestation.

21 Dec 2022

Higher Pharmaceutical Consumption Leads to Higher Carbon Emissions

In central Japan, a large university hospital with a research center was investigated by a team of scientists who measured the carbon emissions there. They discovered that the hospital’s overall carbon footprint increased over the course of a decade.

20 Dec 2022

New Project Establishes Link Between Green Spaces and Green Gentrification Processes

An ICTA-UAB project establishes the direct relationship between green spaces and green gentrification processes in 28 cities in North America and Europe.

20 Dec 2022

Using Methane for Eco-friendly Power Generation

Methane is the most significant component of natural gas, and scientists at the ELTE Eötvös Loránd University want to study its properties.

19 Dec 2022

Climate Change Played a Major Role in the Ascendancy of Early Dinosaurs

Climate change, rather than competition, played a key role in the ascendancy of dinosaurs through the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods.

19 Dec 2022

U.S. Cities Experiencing Spikes in Gun Violence on Warm Days, Study Shows

From Philadelphia to Portland, cities across the United States are experiencing spikes in gun violence on warm days. Researchers have begun to explore heat as a contributor to firearm violence, but current research on this subject is limited, focusing only on a few cities.

19 Dec 2022