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Comprehensive Assessment of the Development of Flash Droughts and the Underlying Mechanisms

Similar to flash floods, flash droughts come on fast—drying out soil just in a matter of days to weeks. Such events can destroy crops and result in huge economic losses.

4 Apr 2022

Aggressive and Comprehensive Actions Needed to Achieve Net Zero Emissions

The third and final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) Sixth Assessment Report calls for aggressive and comprehensive actions if we are to achieve net zero emissions by mid-century.

4 Apr 2022

Tropical Trees' Trunk Growth is Reduced During Drier and Warmer Seasons

For a long time, ecologists assumed tree rings to be absent in tropical trees because of a lack of temperature and rain fluctuations in the trees' environment.

4 Apr 2022

Study Offers New Insights into the Impact of Recent Climatic Change on the Frozen Continent

The area and volume of surface meltwater lakes are highly variable year over year, finds a first-ever study looking at surface meltwater lakes near the East Antarctic Ice Sheet over seven years.

1 Apr 2022

City Trees Benefit from Stormwater Harvesting

To enhance the health of urban street trees, reports of tree canopy coverage dwindling throughout city suburbs increase pressure on local government and other authorities’ measures.

1 Apr 2022

Ozone Weakens One of Earth’s Main Cooling Mechanisms

According to new research, one of the most significant cooling mechanisms might undergo weakening due to Ozone, thereby making it a considerable greenhouse gas compared to what was thought earlier.

1 Apr 2022

Funding to Help Develop DRI’s Advanced Weather and Research Forecast Modeling Tool

Wildfires in the Sierra Nevada are taking place at unparalleled sizes and intensities as there is a warming in the climate, thereby posing risks to communities and resources across California and Nevada.

1 Apr 2022

Growth of Tropical Trees Hindered by Increased Heat and Drought

For a long period, ecologists supposed tree rings were not present in tropical trees due to a lack of temperature and rain variations in the trees' surroundings.

1 Apr 2022

End-of-Life Tires Repurposed into Concrete for Residential Buildings

A unique method of recycling rubber could result in end-of-life tires being repurposed into concrete for residential buildings.

31 Mar 2022

Researchers Use Capacitance Probes to Study the Moisture Content in Sand Dunes

Deserts might appear to be inactive and lifeless, but they are known to be very much alive. Especially, sand dunes tend to grow and move from one place to another—and as per the decades-long research project performed, humid air is also breathed by them.

31 Mar 2022

EU Must Embrace a Diverse Mix of Technologies to Ensure Credible Trajectories to Net-Zero

New first-of-its-kind modelling commissioned by Carbon-Free Europe shows the European Union's most feasible, cost-effective pathway to net-zero by 2050 must retain existing carbon-free energy sources including nuclear and bring all available low-carbon technologies online.

31 Mar 2022

Countries can Achieve Net-Zero Carbon Emissions While Maintaining Economic Growth, Study Says

A new paper in Oxford Open Energy, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that countries can get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while maintaining economic growth.

31 Mar 2022

Pre-Packaged Pod System Holds Promise to Reduce Energy Use by 50-75% in Older Homes

The University of Central Florida was recently awarded a grant worth $4.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to determine if a pre-packaged pod is an effective method to deploy very efficient heating, cooling and water heating systems to thousands of homes.

31 Mar 2022

Sustainable Seaweed Cultivation Using Process Water from the Food Sector

For land-based seaweed cultivation, process water from the food sector is an exceptional fertilizer.

30 Mar 2022

Researchers Develop a New Process for the Production of Ethanol

There is a necessity for a significant decrease in CO2 emissions to restrict the impacts of climate change. This is in accordance with the latest assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

30 Mar 2022