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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

Himalayan Glaciers Melting at ‘Exceptional Rate’ Could Impact Water Supply in Asia

A University of Leeds directed study concludes that during the recent decades the Himalayan glaciers have lost ice ten times more rapidly than on average since the last big glacier expansion 400-700 years ago, a period referred to as the Little Ice Age.

21 Dec 2021