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Alternative Carbon Price Trajectories can Prevent the Need for Excessive CO2 Removal

Technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, such as reforestation or bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), are an indispensable part in most scenarios to limit climate change.

15 Apr 2021

Study Outlines Satellite-Based Map of Human Pressure on Lands to Foster Sustainable Development

The coronavirus pandemic has led researchers to switch gears or temporarily abandon projects due to health protocols or not being able to travel.

15 Apr 2021

Researchers Use Archaeological Data to Improve Climate Models

Climate modeling is future facing, its general intent to hypothesize what our planet might look like at some later date.

15 Apr 2021

Alternative Method is Better than Conventional Measurement of “Biological oxygen Demand”

When wastewater from villages and cities flows into rivers and lakes, large quantities of fats, proteins, sugars and other carbon-containing, organic substances wind up in nature together with the fecal matter.

15 Apr 2021

Maximum and Minimum Values Between Ocean Temperatures Have Fluctuated Over the Past 700,000 Years

Bern's ice core researchers were already able to demonstrate in 2008 how the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has changed over the past 800,000 years.

15 Apr 2021

New Data Shows Effect of Lockdowns on Air Pollution Levels

One consequence of the coronavirus pandemic has been global restrictions on mobility. This, in turn, has had an effect on pollution levels in the atmosphere.

15 Apr 2021

Broader Perspective can Help Limit Food Waste and Promote Healthy Nutrition

Food waste and obesity are major problems in developed countries. They are both caused by an overabundance of food, but strategies to reduce one can inadvertently increase the other.

15 Apr 2021

Air Pollution Linked to Higher Chance of Hospitalization for COVID-19 Patients

Patients who have preexisting respiratory conditions such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and live in areas with high levels of air pollution have a greater chance of hospitalization if they contract COVID-19, says a University of Cincinnati researcher.

15 Apr 2021

Chemical Pollutants in the Environment can Alter Animal and Human Behavior

International scientists from around the world are warning that chemical pollutants in the environment have the potential to alter animal and human behaviour.

15 Apr 2021

Researchers Assess the Effects of Climate Change on Ethiopia’s Coffee Production

Ethiopia may produce less specialty coffee and more rather bland tasting varieties in the future.

15 Apr 2021

Researchers Develop Simple Solution to Address Water Scarcity, Food Shortage

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has recently developed a simple solution to address two of the world's biggest problems - water scarcity and food shortage.

15 Apr 2021

Continues Global Warming Will Make Indian Monsoon Seasons Stronger, More Erratic

If global warming continues unchecked, summer monsoon rainfall in India will become stronger and more erratic. This is the central finding of an analysis by a team of German researchers that compared more than 30 state-of-the-art climate models from all around the world.

15 Apr 2021