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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

Five or More El Niño Events Per Century Restructure the Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems

The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a global climate phenomenon most famous for the El Niño phase characterized by warm sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, intense winter storms and high precipitation.

9 Sep 2022

Availability of Renewable Energy Sources At Risk

According to a new study, climate change is putting at risk the availability of biomass fuels and technologies, which are crucial substitutes for fossil fuels.

8 Sep 2022

Over-Dependence on Carbon Removal Technologies Could Increase Climate Change and Food Security Risks

In a new study published in Nature, an international group of scientists emphasized the risk of depending on carbon removal technologies to curb climate change.

8 Sep 2022

Study Looks at How Many More Bees are Needed to Preserve Crops

In a study by Rutgers University, researchers have illustrated for the first time how many more bee species are required to preserve crop yields.

8 Sep 2022

NASA Team Investigates Impact of Wildfires on Air Quality

In new research reported in SPIE’s Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, researchers illustrate their findings in the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) field campaigns in 2019.

8 Sep 2022

Pioneering Scheme Begins in South Africa to Reduce Waste Dumping, Increase Plastic Recycling

A pioneering scheme to help reduce illegal waste dumping and increase plastic recycling in South Africa has begun, under the guidance of experts from the University of Portsmouth.

8 Sep 2022

Experts to Discuss a New Approach to Modeling Climate Risk to Financial Markets

Experts from the University of Maryland and the investment management firm Conning will discuss a new approach to modeling climate risk to financial markets, in a free webinar at 9 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, hosted by the Center for Financial Policy (CFP) at UMD's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

8 Sep 2022

Employing Biological Materials to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Valuable Products

Assistant Professor Ariel Furst and her colleagues are looking to DNA to help guide the process.

8 Sep 2022

Study Unearths Ancient Reef Structure High and Dry on the Nullarbor Plain

Curtin researchers and international collaborators using advanced satellite imagery have discovered an ancient reef-like landform ‘hidden’ in plain view on the Nullarbor Plain, which has been preserved for millions of years since it first formed when the Plain was underwater.

7 Sep 2022

Robust and Realistic Method for Dealing with Wind-Driven Phenomena

To extract an underlying model of how specific parameters behave and are correlated both spatially and temporally in the real world, geostatistical analyses involve the statistical processing of very large datasets, like measurements of wind speed over time and at various altitudes and locations.

7 Sep 2022