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Study Analyzes How the Arctic Drives Eurasian Climate Variability and Underlying Multi-Sphere Interactions

During the past few years, a cooling trend in Eurasia and a warming trend in the Arctic was observed by various sources. The

30 Dec 2021

University of Oregon Experts Offer Suggestions for Climate-Friendly Resolutions for 2022

A scholar of climate and environment justice, a restoration ecologist, an environmental anthropologist, a landscape architect, and other University of Oregon environment experts offer suggestions for climate-friendly resolutions for 2022.

30 Dec 2021

Safe, Secure Carbon Capture and Storage can be a Key Tool to Avert Climate Change

Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have increased significantly over the last 50 years, resulting in higher global temperatures and abrupt changes to Earth's climate. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is one of the new technologies that scientists hope will play an important role in tackling the climate crisis.

30 Dec 2021

Experts Analyze Long-Term Relationships Between Animals and their Response to Changes in the Environments

Jenny McGuire plans to use the late Cenozoic fossil record in Africa -; a span of 7.5 million years -; to study the long-term relationships between animals, their traits, and how they respond to changes in their environments. The goal is to use the data to forecast future changes and help inform conservation biology decisions for the continent.

28 Dec 2021

Palladium Nanoparticles Act as Reservoirs for Storing Hydrogen

An innovative approach could turn nanoparticles into simple reservoirs for storing hydrogen. The highly volatile gas is considered a promising energy carrier for the future, which could provide climate-friendly fuels for airplanes, ships and lorries, for example, as well as allowing climate-friendly steel and cement production – depending on how the hydrogen gas is generated.

28 Dec 2021

Distribution of Plant Traits Determined by Climate and Soil Properties

An international research team succeeded in identifying global factors that explain the diversity of form and function in plants. Led by the University of Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena and the University of Leipzig, the researchers collected and analyzed plant data from around the world.

24 Dec 2021

Food Systems Account for One-Third of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

A new study reports that food systems are associated with one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions induced by human activity, risking agricultural yields.

24 Dec 2021

Research Helps Understand How Carbon Pricing can Shift Consumers Toward Electric Vehicles

With new major spending packages investing billions of dollars in electric vehicles in the U.S., some analysts have raised concerns over how green the electric vehicle industry actually is, focusing particularly on indirect emissions caused within the supply chains of the vehicle components and the fuels used to power electricity that charges the vehicles.

23 Dec 2021

Climate Change is Inevitable in Some Regions Even with CO2 Reduction

While the entire world focuses on achieving carbon neutrality - zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions - a new research shows climate change in some regions is inevitable even if the already increased CO2 level is reduced.

23 Dec 2021

Continued Global Warming Could Lead to Multi-Meter Rise in Sea Levels by 3000 CE

Scientists predict that continued global warming under current trends could lead to an elevation of the sea level by as much as five meters by the year 3000 CE.

23 Dec 2021

Scientists Show How Arctic Seabirds Connect the World

As the Arctic and the oceans warm due to climate change, understanding how a rapidly changing environment may affect birds making annual journeys between the Arctic and the high seas is vital to international conservation efforts.

22 Dec 2021

Research Explores Factors that Accelerate Mass Extinction in the Fossil Record

The Late Devonian mass extinction (roughly 372 million years ago) was one of five mass extinctions in Earth's history, with roughly 75% of all species disappearing over its course

22 Dec 2021

European Spoonweed Population Provides Insights into How Plants Cope with Climate Change

As cold relics in an increasingly warming world, plants of the spoonweed group time and again quickly adapted to a changing climate during the Ice Ages of the last two million years.

22 Dec 2021

Fugro’s New Environmental Lander Technology Deployed in the Red Sea

Fugro has deployed two new autonomous environmental landers off the coast of Saudi Arabia to collect oceanographic data in deep and remote areas of the Red Sea.

From Fugro 22 Dec 2021

NREL Sets Up Heliostat Consortium to Develop Advanced Heliostat Technology

The Heliostat Consortium (HelioCon), an international initiative to reduce the price of heliostats, has been launched by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories and the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute.

21 Dec 2021