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65% of UK Schools Exceed Safe Air Pollution Levels Finds #LetSchoolsBreathe Campaign

One year ago, Cleantech platform Airly started installing air pollution sensors in schools across the UK in April 2021 to help school children and parents understand more about air pollution levels. Today. Airly reports on the air pollution levels in these communities.

28 Apr 2022

Study: One in Five Reptile Species Threatened with Extinction

Conservation efforts for other animals have likely helped protect many reptile species, according to a new study led by NatureServe, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and Conservation International, in partnership with Monash University.

28 Apr 2022

Study Analyzes the Relationship Between Tropical Cyclone Size and Environmental Helicity in the South China Sea

Tropical cyclones (TCs)’ outer-core size is considered to be crucial for assessing their damaging potential.

27 Apr 2022

Novel Network Model Quantifies How Traffic Emissions from One City Affect Another

Huge shifts have been made in the way how people travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In certain regions, such limitations on travel have had little impact on air pollution, and few cities exhibit worse air quality than ever before.

27 Apr 2022

Complex-Network-Based Clustering Workflow to Predict Extreme Rainfall Events

As per the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in February 2022, precipitation extremes are probably to turn out to be more frequent in the majority of the locations.

27 Apr 2022

Study Demonstrates Widespread Increases in the Occurrences of Flash Flooding Events Across Most of the United States

The latest UN report on climate change recorded scientists’ efforts that have revealed some measures of global warming are now unavoidable, and recent research efforts are concentrating on adaptation and mitigation strategies.

27 Apr 2022

Chemistry of Ancient Oak Trees Provides Clues About Past Climate

Researchers will soon be able to reconstruct the climate of north-west Europe including the UK over the last 4500 years, and to date wooden buildings and objects more accurately, by analysing the chemistry of ancient oak trees, through a new Swansea-led project just selected for €3 million in European funding.

27 Apr 2022

Scientists Assess the Role of Future Global Biodiversity Targets for Climate Protection

When the global community is expected to meet for the second part of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, in autumn, it must also adopt the next generation of UN biodiversity targets.

27 Apr 2022

More Metals Needed to Meet EU's Green Deal Goal of Climate Neutrality by 2050

Meeting the European Union's Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth metals compared to Europe's limited use today, according to a study from Belgian university KU Leuven.

26 Apr 2022

LLNL Collaborates with City of Livermore to Build Community-Wide Resilience to Climate Change Impacts

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the City of Livermore to collaborate on advancing climate action in Livermore and build community-wide resilience to climate change impacts.

26 Apr 2022

Study Calls for Strict Regulatory Measure to Reduce Groundwater Extraction

According to a new study, Manila and various other coastal Asian cities are sinking faster compared to the rate of sea-level increase. This study urges the severe regulatory measure to decrease groundwater extraction, determined as a significant cause of land subsidence.

26 Apr 2022