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Researchers Reveal Consequences of Land Subsidence Caused by Sinking Water Level

The Dead Sea is undergoing shrinkage and several factors are responsible for this. Among these, climate change is considered a contributing factor along with the overexploitation of water as a resource by humans.

28 Jul 2021

Researchers Provide New Data on Climate’s Health

In a year characterized by unusually high flooding, scorching heatwaves, wildfires, and deadly avalanches, the climate emergency’s huge cost—whether quantified in lost resources or human lives—is all too evident.

28 Jul 2021

Updated Earth's Vital Signs Largely Reflect the Consequences of Business-as-Usual Mindset on Climate Change

Twenty months after declaring a climate emergency and establishing a set of vital signs for the Earth, a coalition headed by two Oregon State University researchers says the updated vital signs "largely reflect the consequences of unrelenting business as usual."

28 Jul 2021

Howden Provides Green Hydrogen Compression for World’s First Climate Neutral Methanol Plant

Howden, a leading global provider of mission critical air and gas handling products has been selected to deliver a hydrogen compression solution to Johnson Matthey, a leader in sustainable technologies, to support commitment to supply leading-edge technologies, equipment and advisory services to the world’s first methanol plant to harness energy from the wind, in Patagonia, Chile.

28 Jul 2021

UK’s Largest Renewable Energy Awards Will Return to Edinburgh in December

Nominations for The Scottish Green Energy Awards – the UK’s largest celebration of renewables – open today (July 27).

28 Jul 2021

Biofertiliser for Better Farms

While agricultural production around the world struggles with declining soil health, Australian researchers are investigating production of a sustainable organic nitrogen fertiliser made from aquatic cyanobacterial biomass – ideally suited for badly degraded areas reliant on chemical fertilisers.

28 Jul 2021

Renewable Electricity Turned into Stable Molecules Could Enable Long-Term Energy Storage

The intensity of natural resources that offer renewable energy varies every day and also with seasons. Spring blows high winds to scour the deserts and fills rivers with snowmelts. And summer has long sunlit hours, and as the fall transitions into winter, the days tend to shorten.

27 Jul 2021

Tree Mortality in Subalpine Colorado Forests Mainly Caused by Extreme Heat, Dry Summers

Even in the absence of bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, trees in Colorado subalpine forests are dying at increasing rates from warmer and drier summer conditions, found recent University of Colorado Boulder research.

27 Jul 2021

Experts Propose Use of Advanced Scientific Models to Enhance Climate Resilience

Climate change mitigation is one of the stressing challenges of the 21st century. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory hosted the America Resilient virtual climate conference on April 14th, 2021, to discuss the issue.

27 Jul 2021

Franco-Scottish Research to Drive Floating Wind and Hydrogen in Europe

The European Marine Energy Centre and partners have delivered a report outlining a series of recommendations for the Scottish Government to facilitate research collaborations between Scottish and French organisations working in floating wind and hydrogen.

27 Jul 2021