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New Weather Warning Gauge

Australia, the driest inhabited continent, is prone to natural disasters and wild swings in weather conditions – from floods to droughts, heatwaves and bushfires.

10 May 2021

Scientists Propose New Strategy to Convert Greenhouse Gas into Economically, Industrially Valuable Material

Plants are unparalleled in their ability to capture CO2 from the air, but this benefit is temporary, as leftover crops release carbon back into the atmosphere, mostly through decomposition.

7 May 2021

Climate Change Impacts Biodiversity of Species Living in the Alps

The European Alps is certainly one of the most scrutinized mountain range in the world, as it forms a true open-air laboratory showing how climate change affects biodiversity.

7 May 2021

Hydrogen-Based Fuels Could Endanger Short- and Long-Term Climate Targets

Hydrogen-based fuels should primarily be used in sectors such as aviation or industrial processes that cannot be electrified, finds a team of researchers.

7 May 2021

Temperature can Explain why the Greatest Variety of Aquatic Life Resides in the Tropics

The bulging, equator-belted midsection of Earth currently teems with a greater diversity of life than anywhere else -- a biodiversity that generally wanes when moving from the tropics to the mid-latitudes and the mid-latitudes to the poles.

7 May 2021

Collaborative Team Helps Farmers Address the Challenge of Climate Change

"The global food system is challenged to become sustainable in multiple ways," said Cynthia Rosenzweig, AgMIP Co-Founder and Executive Committee Member,

7 May 2021

Similar Genes in Each Species Would be Critical to Survive Climate Change

As climate change continues to trigger the rise in temperature, increase drier conditions and shift precipitation patterns, adapting to new conditions will be critical for the long-term survival of most species.

7 May 2021

Study Suggests Fast-Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles Should be Expanded

A group of engineers proposed an increase in the number of fast-charging stations for electric vehicles as businesses and campuses begin their plans for a post-pandemic world.

7 May 2021

High CO2 Adsorption of Zeolites Paves Way for its Application in Air Purification

The fact that carbon dioxide is the largest contributor to climate change and mainly emerges from the burning of fossil fuels is common knowledge.

7 May 2021

A Big Step Toward Creating the Next Generation of Rechargeable Batteries

Researchers have taken a crucial stride toward making next-generation rechargeable batteries, which will substitute present energy storage technology if successful.

7 May 2021

Study Identifies Drivers of Reduction in US Greenhouse Gas Emissions

In 2005, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from residential energy use hit an all-time high in the United States. Each year since, emissions have dropped at an average annual rate of 2 percent.

6 May 2021

Yale-Led Study Provides Earliest Evidence of Humans Altering Ecosystems with Flames

Mastery of fire has given humans dominance over the natural world. A Yale-led study provides the earliest evidence to date of ancient humans significantly altering entire ecosystems with flames.

6 May 2021

Modeling the Impact of Different Warming Scenarios on the Antarctic Ice Sheet

The world is currently on track to exceed three degrees Celsius of global warming, and new research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Rob DeConto, co-director of the School of Earth & Sustainability, shows that such a scenario would drastically accelerate the pace of sea-level rise by 2100.

6 May 2021

Graphene Oxide Shows High Capacity to Carry Organic Pollutants to Aquatic Organisms

Graphene is a two-dimensional nanomaterial composed of carbon and formed by a single layer of densely packed carbon atoms.

6 May 2021

Collaborative Research Project Offers Comprehensive Sea-Level Rise Projections Till 2100

A massive collaborative research project covered in the journal Nature this week offers projections to the year 2100 of future sea-level rise from all sources of land ice, offering the most complete projections created to date.

6 May 2021