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Turning Grey to Green in Sydney's Urban Jungle

Under a new plan released today, the City of Sydney will plant 700 new street trees a year and aim to cover 40% of the city in greenery by 2050.

17 Mar 2021

AMDA energía Selects Ideematec to Supply Solar Tracking Systems for 100MW Agri-PV Project Portfolio

Ideematec Inc., the leading global supplier of solar tracking systems, today announced it was selected by project developer AMDA energía (AMDA) to provide customized solar tracking systems for a 100 megawa...

From IDEEMATEC Inc. 17 Mar 2021

Helsinki Energy Challenge: Four International Award Winners Announced

An international jury has selected four winners from the ten finalists in the Helsinki Energy Challenge. The four winning teams were announced during a virtual event introduced by the Mayor of Helsinki, Jan Vapaavuori, and will each take a share of the €1 million prize fund.

17 Mar 2021

Retail Meets Reforestation Zalando and Land Life Company Join Forces to Plant Over 300,000 Trees

Europe’s leading online fashion platform retailer Zalando and Land Life Company, a tech-driven reforestation company, have teamed up to plant over 300,000 trees to capture 80,000 tons of CO2. They have just completed their first tree planting together in Spain, as part of the collaboration.

From Land Life Company 17 Mar 2021

How Plastic Bags are being Recycled into Fabric to Fight Against Pollution

Fabrics of the future with self-cooling and water evaporating properties could be made from polyethylene?—?a material commonly found in plastic bags.

16 Mar 2021

Temperature Increase of up to 1.5 Degrees Predicted in Antarctic Peninsula by 2044

A new study demonstrates that climate change will cause the temperature in the Antarctic Peninsula to increase by 0.5°C to 1.5°C by 2044. The study involved an analysis of historic and predicted simulations from 19 global climate models.

16 Mar 2021

Study Pinpoints Oceans as Future Sources of Ozone-Depleting CFCs

The world's oceans are a vast repository for gases including ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. They absorb these gases from the atmosphere and draw them down to the deep, where they can remain sequestered for centuries and more.

16 Mar 2021

Greenland Ice Sheet is More Sensitive to Climate Change than Previously Understood

In 1966, US Army scientists drilled down through nearly a mile of ice in northwestern Greenland--and pulled up a fifteen-foot-long tube of dirt from the bottom. Then this frozen sediment was lost in a freezer for decades. It was accidentally rediscovered in 2017.

16 Mar 2021

NASA Images Reveal Significant Losses of Forest and Wetlands in Belize

Using NASA satellite images and machine learning, researchers with The University of Texas at Austin have mapped changes in the landscape of northwestern Belize over a span of four decades, finding significant losses of forest and wetlands, but also successful regrowth of forest in established conservation zones that protect surviving structures of the ancient Maya.

16 Mar 2021

Decreasing Glacier Cover Could Accelerate Carbon Emissions into the Atmosphere

The loss of glaciers worldwide enhances the breakdown of complex carbon molecules in rivers, potentially contributing further to climate change.

16 Mar 2021

Burkina Faso Offers Valuable Lessons for Global Forest Landscape Restoration

Forest landscape restoration is attaining new global momentum this year under the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), an initiative launched by the United Nations.

16 Mar 2021

European Summer Droughts Far More Severe than in the Past Two Millennia

Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study.

16 Mar 2021

Increase in Global Warming Threatens Habitats of Freshwater Fish Species

The habitats of freshwater fish species are threatened by global warming, mainly due to rising water temperatures. A 3.2-degree Celsius increase in global mean temperature would threaten more than half of the habitat for one third of all freshwater fish species.

16 Mar 2021

Urban Development, Greenhouses Gases can Trigger Extreme Floods

When the rain started to pour down in northern Georgia on September 15th, 2009, the residents of Atlanta were completely unaware that they would be witnessing epic flooding across the city.

16 Mar 2021

Water Available in Rivers is at the Mercy of Climate Change

According to an international team of researchers collaborating on a global study with Michigan State University, the availability of water in rivers is largely dependent on climate change like never before.

16 Mar 2021