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Climate Models Unreliable in Predicting Wave Damage

According to a study published in the journal Earth’s Future, climate models are unreliable when predicting tropical storms' impact on delicate coral reefs.

12 Sep 2022

New Method to Transform CO2 From Exhaust Into Ethylene

Meenesh Singh and his team at the University of Illinois Chicago have found a means to transform the carbon dioxide extracted from industrial exhaust into ethylene, a crucial component of plastic manufacturing.

12 Sep 2022

Artificial Ocean Cooling Futile to Weaken Hurricanes

According to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Miami’s (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science, using intervention technology to diminish a hurricane before it reaches landfall is an unproductive means to reduce the effects of disasters.

12 Sep 2022

Study Finds Adverse Impacts of Climate Change on Drinking Water

A research team from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) showed how water quality could be impacted by the climate-related loss of forests in the catchment area for Germany’s largest drinking water reservoir, the Rappbode reservoir in the Harz region.

12 Sep 2022

Climate Change Leads to Legal Maritime Zone Uncertainties

In the Indo-Pacific, coral reef islands expand and contract as a result of intricate, mysterious biological and physical processes, which are being disrupted by climate change.

12 Sep 2022

Negative Emotions Weaken Climate Change Mitigation Behavior

Climate change education (CCE) is an of environmental education program that connects scientific truths to advocacy, problem-solving abilities, and action competency.

12 Sep 2022

Compound Hot Day and Night Extremes More Likely to Become More Intense in All Cities

Hot days followed by sweltering nights without any temperature relief in between might become a new norm towards the end of the 21st century.

12 Sep 2022

Bladon Micro Turbine Signs Multi Year Partnership with Jubaili Bros

Bladon Micro Turbine (“Bladon”), the pioneer in the design, development, engineering and manufacture of micro turbine gensets (“MTGs”), has signed a multi-country distribution partnership agreement with global power solutions provider Jubaili Bros.

From Jubaili Bros 12 Sep 2022

Taking Inspiration From Nature: Novel CO2 Reduction Strategy

MIT researchers are attempting to develop a CO2 reduction strategy that will enable them to ‘upconvert’ this greenhouse gas into a useful rather than a detrimental product.

By David J. Cross 9 Sep 2022

Planting Trees Not Best Method to Trap Carbon Dioxide

Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, among other places, are cautioning that forests on nutrient-poor land will not be a supplementary carbon sink in the long term.

9 Sep 2022

Upgraded Portable Purification Method for Saltier Waters

U.S. Marines have to acquire and store sufficient drinking water to sustain them on missions since they have no access to clean water.

9 Sep 2022

Single Catalyst Can Split Water at Low Voltage

In recent years, hydrogen has gained a lot of attention as a potential clean energy source since it combusts without generating climate-damaging emissions.

9 Sep 2022

Climate Change Causing Ice to Vanish from Caves in Austria

A group of geologists from the University of Innsbruck, have, for the first time, expansively recorded the gain and loss of ice in Alpine ice caves across the last 2,000 years.

9 Sep 2022

Scarcity and Uncertainty of Green Hydrogen Exposed

Green hydrogen from renewable electricity is valuable for realizing climate neutrality. They can substitute fossil fuels where direct electrification is not practical.

9 Sep 2022

Increase in Global Temperature Beyond 1.5°C Could Trigger Multiple Climate Tipping Points

Multiple climate tipping points could be triggered if global temperature rises beyond 1.5 deg.C above pre-industrial levels, according to a major new analysis published in the journal Science.

9 Sep 2022