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Rail Systems Could Help Mitigate Climate Change and Clean Air of CO2

ail systems around the world could help mitigate climate change and clean the air of CO2 by capturing the sustainable energy generated when trains break and decelerate.

21 Jul 2022

Microplastics: The Degradation of Plastic

The oceans’ surface is covered with more than five billion plastic particles, which harm wildlife, the delicate underwater ecology, and even the climate.

20 Jul 2022

How Climate Change Might Impact Disease Outbreak in Antarctic Fish

Researchers are discovering that an uncommon disease epidemic in Antarctic fish may be caused by climate change.

20 Jul 2022

Glacial Microclimates Helps Researchers Predict How Forests Will React to Climate Change

According to the scientists of a new 166-year case study of an Alaskan glacier that has been developing rapidly and retreating, a cool pocket climate near a glacier’s snout may be able to help scientists predict how forests will react to rapid climate change.

20 Jul 2022

Study Reveals Widespread Shifts in Water Resources Across the Northern Hemisphere by 2100

Water resources will fluctuate increasingly and become more and more difficult to predict in snow-dominated regions across the Northern Hemisphere by later this century, according to a comprehensive new climate change study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and co-authored by a Cornell University climate scientist.

20 Jul 2022

Reports Lead to Overestimates of Actual Carbon Stored by 19-30 Per Cent

This is according to a new report from Imperial College London published today in Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

20 Jul 2022

Seed Dispersal and Fire Will Slow Arctic Shrub Expansion, Scientists Say

Scientists investigating the growth of arctic vegetation have found that seed dispersal and fire will slow its land expansion in the long term, despite more favorable conditions from a warming planet.

20 Jul 2022

Earth’s Oceans with High Marine Biodiversity Threatened by Future Warming

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Adelaide has revealed that rates of future warming threaten marine life in more than 70 per cent of the most biodiverse-rich areas of Earth's oceans.

20 Jul 2022

Study Assesses Effects of Climate Warming and Water Management on West Florida's Continental Shelf

The continental shelf is the submerged extension of a continent and as such it is at the crossroad of terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric influences. This confluence is the lead driver of the high biological productivity that often characterizes the continental shelf regions. Their productivity is not only critical to the ecosystems that it sustains but also to the livelihood of coastal communities such as tourism, fishing, aquaculture and more.

20 Jul 2022

Hydrogen the Only Solution for Some Zero-emission Haulage, Whitepaper Finds

Today, the H2Accelerate collaboration has published a new whitepaper in support of the use of hydrogen in long-haul trucking, based on focus group discussions with truck end-users and logistics providers.

20 Jul 2022

Global Survey Finds More Species on the Brink of Extinction Than Previously Thought

According to a global biodiversity assessment, more species than previously believed are in danger of going extinct.

19 Jul 2022

New Project Explores How Ecosystem’s "Memory" Of Extreme Climate Events Impacts Productivity

Ecosystems have a long memory. That may not be a good thing. What scientists have learned is that extreme climate events like drought and heat waves don't just negatively impact plants, trees and other vegetation while they're ongoing.

19 Jul 2022

Researchers Analyze How Liquid Manure from Livestock Farming Affects Its Nitrogen Footprint

Factory farming for meat production is harmful to the environment. In addition to its direct emissions of methane, its use of liquid manure releases climate-damaging nitrogen compounds such as ammonia and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere and pollutes the groundwater with nitrates.

19 Jul 2022

The Impact of Urban Agriculture on Bee Communities

The biggest threat to biodiversity is urbanization. However, little is known by scientists about how urbanization impacts ecosystem services and biodiversity in tropical parts of the Global South.

18 Jul 2022

Climate Change and Its Repercussions

Mark Abbott expected to get a long-awaited view of the previous 160,000 years of climate change when he and his colleagues extracted a 300-foot-long core of mud from a lakebed high in the Peruvian Andes.

18 Jul 2022