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Railcare will Reduce its Fossil Emissions by 40% by 2025

As part of the Group's ongoing sustainability work, Railcare has set a clear goal of reducing the consumption of fossil emissions from its own locomotives and machinery by 40% by 2025.

14 Dec 2021

New Bushfire Spread Prediction Model Keeps Firefighters Ahead of the Fire Front

Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and the NSW Rural Fire Service have released Australia’s most advanced model for predicting the speed and behaviour of eucalypt forest fires, helping to save lives and property during bushfires.

14 Dec 2021

Understanding the Nutrient Response of Plants Could Enhance Global Food Production

Photosynthesis is the complex biochemical process by which green plants and a number of other organisms transform the Sun’s energy into chemical energy. During this process, the captured light energy is used to con...

By David J. Cross 13 Dec 2021

New Tools to Help Electric Delivery Vehicles Navigate Strategically with Minimal Energy

Running out of battery can pose serious impacts, range anxiety with electric commercial vehicles seems to be a real scenario. At the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, scientists have come up with tools to enable electric delivery vehicles to navigate tactically such that as little energy as possible is used.

13 Dec 2021

Simple Changes to the Management of Solar Parks Could Boost Bumble Bee Populations

New research shows that simple changes to how UK solar parks are managed could boost ground nesting bumble bee populations in the parks and surrounding areas, providing an additional benefit on top of renewable energy.

13 Dec 2021

Long-Term Natural Climate Cycles Heavily Affect California's Precipitation

Over the past 40 years, winters in California have become drier. This is a problem for the region's agricultural operations, as farmers rely on winter precipitation to irrigate their crops.

13 Dec 2021

AI to be Deployed to Protect UK Peatlands and Tackle Climate Change – Civil Service Data Challenge Winner Announced

Today, Alex Chisholm, the Civil Service’s Chief Operating Officer announced the winner of the Civil Service Data Challenge.

13 Dec 2021

Climate Models Could Grossly Underestimate Future Extinctions of Species

Ecologists estimate that 15 to 37% of plant and animal species will go extinct as a direct result of the rapidly changing climate.

10 Dec 2021

Tundra Fires Accelerate Permafrost Degradation in Arctic Alaska

While climate change is the primary driver of permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaska, a new analysis of 70 years of data reveals that tundra fires are accelerating that decline, contributing disproportionately to a phenomenon known as "thermokarst," the abrupt collapse of ice-rich permafrost as a result of thawing.

10 Dec 2021

New System can Extract More Energy from Biomass

Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" have designed a new system that allows more to be got from biomass thanks to a chemical reactor that works with a small solar power facility.

10 Dec 2021

Natural Decadal Variability in the Pacific Ocean Plays Role in Modulating Pacific Walker Circulation

A new study demonstrates that the naturally occurring warm-to-cold change in the tropical Pacific Ocean is the major cause for the recent intensification in Pacific Walker circulation, the most prominent feature of the tropical Pacific.

10 Dec 2021

Novel Approaches to Make Smarter Climate Models

Novel approaches developed by scientists including Lexie Yang of ORNL scan massive datasets of large-scale satellite images to more accurately map infrastructure – such as buildings and roads – in hours versus days.

10 Dec 2021

Study Identifies Widespread Future Changes in Climate Variability

There is growing public awareness that climate change will impact society not only through changes in mean temperatures and precipitation over the 21st century, but also in the occurrence of more pronounced extreme events, and more generally in natural variability in the Earth system.

10 Dec 2021