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Study Predicts More Intense Monsoon Rainfall in the Future

A new study conducted on monsoon rainfall on the Indian subcontinent over the past few million years has offered crucial clues about the way monsoons will react to upcoming climate change.

7 Jun 2021

CORRECTING and REPLACING NET ZERO Leaders Summit (Japan Business Conference 2021)

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) are pleased to announce the jointly organized “NET ZERO Leaders Summit (Japan Business Conference 2021)” to promote efforts towards green investment and realizing carbon neutrality by 2050. Please refer to the attached full News Release for details.

7 Jun 2021

Conserving Coastal Seaweed: A Must Have for Migrating Sea Birds

As Australia officially enters winter, UniSA ecologists are urging coastal communities to embrace all that the season brings, including the sometimes-unwelcome deposits of brown seaweed that can accumulate on the southern shores.

7 Jun 2021

IDEMIA Collaborates With ClimateSeed to Invest in a Carbon Project in India to Offer Truly Sustainable Payment Cards

For decades, the “take-make-waste” model has ruled the global economy. However, we are now seeing a paradigm shift in Banks’ and fin techs’ strategic values; they are seeking a “reduce-recycle-offset” model to reduce their carbon footprint and preserve the planet.

7 Jun 2021

‘First Power‘ Moray East - Scotland’s Largest Windfarm – Begins Producing Electricity

Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd has announced that it has commenced exporting power to the National Grid, for use by homes and industry across the UK. The windfarm is still under construction, but the engineeri...

7 Jun 2021

Mass Galah Death Prompts Alarm Over Mouse Poison Impacts on Endangered Birds

Bird experts are warning that endangered seed-eating birds and other wildlife could die in large numbers if plans to distribute mass quantities of toxic mouse poison go ahead.

7 Jun 2021

UN Calls on Countries to Restore Nature for Addressing Climate and Biodiversity Threats

Facing the triple threat of climate change, loss of nature and pollution, the world must deliver on its commitment to restore at least one billion degraded hectares of land in the next decade - an area about the size of China.

4 Jun 2021

Pairing Solar Energy with Pollinator Habitat Offers Great Promise

Amid the steady growth of solar energy production in the United States, pollinator conservation at solar installations has become an appealing secondary pursuit, but the long-term success of such efforts remains to be seen.

4 Jun 2021

Sedimentary Sequence Preserves Five Million Years of Climate Change

Paleo researcher Charlotte Prud'homme, who until recently worked at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and is now a researcher at the Université Lausanne, explains: "The 80-meter-thick sedimentary sequence we found at Charyn Canyon in southeast Kazakhstan provides us with a virtually continuous record of five million years of climate change.

4 Jun 2021

Interacting Tipping Elements Potentially Cause Climate Domino Effects

Interactions in the network can lower the critical temperature thresholds beyond which individual tipping elements begin destabilizing on the long-run, according to the study - the risk already increases significantly for warming of 1.5 °C to 2 °C, hence within the temperature range of the Paris Agreement.

4 Jun 2021

High-Resolution Models of the Earth's Climate can Accurately Predict Extreme Rainfall

To limit the impacts of climate change it is essential to predict them as accurately as possible.

4 Jun 2021

Increasing Offshore Energy Production Reduces Wind Speed Around Wind Farms

The expansion of wind energy in the German Bight and the Baltic Sea has accelerated enormously in recent years. The first systems went into operation in 2008.

4 Jun 2021

Mixed Farming Methods Could Eliminate Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Small-scale mixed-use agriculture that avoids synthetic fertilizers in favor of manure could eliminate agricultural greenhouse gas emissions if established across the United States' 100 million hectares of lush high quality cropland, according to a study by Gidon Eshel, publishing 3rd June 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.

4 Jun 2021

Life Stage Differences Crucial for the Stability of Complex Ecological Communities

A new study by ecologist André de Roos shows that differences between juveniles and adults of the same species are crucial for the stability of complex ecological communities.

4 Jun 2021

Study Provides Better Understanding of Temperatures in Antarctica During the Last Ice Age

A study of two methods for reconstructing ancient temperatures has given climate researchers a better understanding of just how cold it was in Antarctica during the last ice age around 20,000 years ago.

4 Jun 2021