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Local Adaptation Makes It Harder for Nature to Adjust to Changing Climate

To do the right thing at the right time, organisms need to glean cues from their environment. With ongoing climate change, the timing of these cues, like the accumulation of warm days, is rapidly shifting.

24 Nov 2020

Scientists Create First-Ever Common Framework to Tackle Coral Bleaching

An international consortium of scientists has created the first-ever common framework for increasing comparability of research findings on coral bleaching.

24 Nov 2020

albert Launches Creative Offsets Scheme

Today, albert, the BAFTA-led project and industry authority on environmental sustainability for film and TV announces the launch of its Creative Offsets scheme which has been designed to enable TV and Film productions to offset their unavoidable emissions.

24 Nov 2020

Zircotec Helping to Deliver Carbon-Zero Truck Engine Revolution

After keeping things under wraps for nine months, world leading heat management specialists, Zircotec is proud to announce their involvement with Dolphin N2, now owned by FPT Industrial, and Brighton University, on an exciting and ground-breaking project to develop a new internal combustion engine that has the potential to transform the commercial powertrain market, with its near zero emissions.

From Zircotec Ltd 24 Nov 2020

Ghd Survey Reveals 81% of British Consumers Support Carbon Labelling on Daily Services and 60% Would Pay More for Environmentally Friendly Options

GHD, one of the world’s leading professional services companies, is calling on the government to build on its 10-point plan to accelerate the UK’s path to net zero by introducing carbon labelling on consumer services.

24 Nov 2020

Cavotec Invited to Help Shape the Future of e-Vehicle Charging

Cavotec has joined CharIN, (Charging Interface Initiative), a network of companies developing global standards for charging battery powered vehicles. By bringing 40 years of experience in high-power electrification and connection technologies, Cavotec will help the network shape the future of e-vehicle charging focusing on applications that require high power, high speed charging.

From Cavotec SA 24 Nov 2020

Oslo, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Budapest Commit to Clean Construction, Moving the Industry Towards a Sustainable Future

Today, the mayors of Oslo, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Budapest have pledged to halve emissions from all construction activities in their cities by 2030, in collaboration with leading companies and innovative business communities.

24 Nov 2020

Researchers Working to Reduce Ironwood Tree Decline in Guam

With U.S. Department of Agriculture grants totaling almost $370,000, researchers from the University of Guam and other institutions are in the process of analyzing termites to assess their role in infecting what is now more than 20 percent of Guam's ironwood trees, locally known as gago, with a deadly bacterium.

23 Nov 2020

Current Earth System Models Have Largely Over-Estimated Water Stress in Tropical Forests

Forests can help mitigate climate change, by taking in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and storing it in their biomass (tree trunks, roots, etc.). In fact, forests currently take in around 25-30% of our human-generated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

23 Nov 2020

Polar Climate Variations can Affect Trade Winds in the Tropics, Study Shows

The impact of sea surface temperature variations in the tropical Pacific on global climate has long been recognized. For instance, the episodic warming of the tropical Pacific during El Niño events causes melt of sea ice in far-reaching parts of the Southern Ocean via its effect on the global atmospheric circulation.

23 Nov 2020

Severe Bleaching Projected to Occur Within This Century for World's Coral Reefs

The United Nations recently released a new report projecting future coral reef bleaching globally. The lead author of the report, Ruben van Hooidonk, is a scientist with NOAA's Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Results highlights from the report include:

23 Nov 2020