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The Fincons Forest Blooms: 1750 Trees to Fight Climate Change and Help Local Communities in Africa

Fincons Group, an established international family company providing IT business consulting and system integration, planted 1750 new trees in Africa, one for each member of the Group, to celebrate World Environment Day.

26 Jul 2021

Planting Seeds for Revival of Vital Drylands

Restoration of degraded drylands is urgently needed to mitigate climate change, reverse desertification and secure livelihoods for the two billion people who live there, experts warn in a major new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

23 Jul 2021

New Study can be Used to Benchmark Food Security Projections and Inform Policy Analysis

More than 820 million people in the world don't have enough to eat, while climate change and increasing competition for land and water are further raising concerns about the future balance between food demand and supply.

23 Jul 2021

Samoa's Electricity System Could Go Green in the Future

The future of Samoa's electricity system could go green, a University of Otago study has shown.

23 Jul 2021

Cornell Researchers to Develop First High-Resolution Carbon Monitoring System for East Africa

Cornell University researchers will develop the first high-resolution carbon monitoring system for East Africa that combines "bottom up" ecological modeling with "top down" satellite data, thanks to a three-year, $1 million NASA grant.

23 Jul 2021

New Model to Estimate Energy Usage and Emissions in Commercial Buildings

The building sector in the U.S. accounts for 39 percent of energy use, with commercial buildings responsible for about half of that.

23 Jul 2021

Researchers Create New Environmentally Friendly Bioplastic from Cellulose and Water

Plastics offer many benefits to society and are widely used in our daily life: they are lightweight, cheap and adaptable. However, the production, processing and disposal of plastics are simply not sustainable, and pose a major global threat to the environment and human health.

23 Jul 2021

Researchers Develop Genome Techniques to Analyze Adaptation of Cattle

Jared Decker, a fourth-generation cattle farmer, has been aware of cattle suffering from health and productivity problems when they are moved from one location to another. The shift is from a region where they had spent generations to another place with a different climate, grass, or elevation.

23 Jul 2021

Aggressive Approaches Needed to Curtail CO2 Emissions

Policymakers of California depend in part on shrublands and forests to remove CO2 from the atmosphere to attain the ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. However, scientists at the University of California, Irvine caution that future climate change might limit the ecosystem’s ability to provide this service.

23 Jul 2021

Plastic Free Mersey Project Launched Today in Liverpool

Two major rivers trusts are joining forces to work with communities, researchers, and businesses in the plastics supply and waste management chain to identify plastic litter types in the Mersey catchment.

23 Jul 2021

Study Analyzes Life-Cycle GHG Emissions from Passenger Cars

A far-reaching new study of the life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger cars, including SUVs, draws sharp and meticulous distinctions between the climate impacts of battery and fuel cell electric vehicles on one hand and combustion vehicles on the other.

22 Jul 2021