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New Systematic Framework Helps Identify Feasibility Concerns Raised by Climate Mitigation Scenarios

While the IPCC is in the midst of the drafting cycle of the Sixth Assessment Report, whose publication will start in the second half of 2021 - one of the most relevant events for the global climate change community, there is an ongoing debate on how to assess the feasibility of ambitious climate mitigation scenarios developed through integrated assessment models and to what extent they are actually achievable in the real world.

10 Jun 2021

Clownfish Exposed to Artificial Lighting Die Faster

Young clownfish living closest to shore are dying faster than those further offshore because they are being exposed to artificial lighting, says an international research team.

10 Jun 2021

New Catalyst Helps Create Biofuel from Waste Food Materials

A student from the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at South Ural State University (SUSU) and the winner of the UMNIK competition is working on a project to produce a fundamentally new catalyst that will help generate affordable biodiesel fuel from waste food raw materials.

10 Jun 2021

New Computational Tools may Lead to More Efficient Electric Vehicles

Extensive adoption of hydrogen-powered vehicles over conventional electric vehicles needs fuel cells that can safely convert oxygen and hydrogen into water — a major implementation issue.

10 Jun 2021

Beetle Study Finds Diversity in the Sub-Antarctic Linked to Global Cooling

An international research team led by Monash University has demonstrated that cooling temperatures and glacial cycles over the past 15 million years were essential for an explosion in terrestrial animal diversity throughout the Antarctic region.

10 Jun 2021

Curtin Study Finds Aspirin Takes the Headache Out of Restoration

New Curtin research has shown how a readily available, cheap and safe-to-use product found in the medicine cabinet of most homes could be the key to better ecological restoration practices with major benefits for the environment and agriculture.

10 Jun 2021

Harmful Algal Bloom Events Increase Along with Seafood Demand, Coastal Development

An unprecedented analysis of almost 10,000 Harmful Algal Bloom events worldwide over the past 33 years was launched today by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.

9 Jun 2021

Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Could Help Maintain Tree Diversity, Study Finds

When it comes to climate change, policymakers may fail to see the trees for the forest.

9 Jun 2021

Study Reveals how Deforestation Impacts Coastal Environment

Converting Central American tropical forests into agricultural land is changing the colour and composition of natural material washing into nearby rivers, making it less likely to decompose before it reaches the ocean, a new Southampton-led study has shown.

9 Jun 2021

New Report Highlights Major Barriers to Financing a Sustainable Ocean Economy

Financing a sustainable global ocean economy may require a Paris Agreement type effort, according to a new report from an international team of researchers led by the University of British Columbia.

9 Jun 2021

Peace Agreement in Colombia Presents a Threat to Conservation of its Rainforest

Since the end of the long-running conflict in Colombia, large areas of forest have been rapidly converted to agricultural uses, suggesting the peace agreement presents a threat to conservation the country's rainforest, a new study from Oregon State University shows.

9 Jun 2021

Most Cities in São Paulo State Show Low Readiness to Deal with Climate Change

Most cities in São Paulo state have low potential capacity to adapt to climate change in terms of the ability to formulate public policy that facilitates the revamping of their housing and transportation systems, for example, to account for the impact of climate change.

9 Jun 2021

Artificial Ocean Alkalinization Could Offset the Acidification of the Great Barrier Reef

According to a new study, injecting an alkalinizing agent into the ocean along the stretch of the Great Barrier Reef could help offset a decade's worth of ocean acidification, specifically at the current rate of anthropogenic carbon emissions.

9 Jun 2021

Greenhouse Gases from Food Production are Systematically Underestimated

According to a new global study, greenhouse-gas emissions from food systems have been systematically underestimated for a long time — but there are significant opportunities to reduce them.

9 Jun 2021

EIG-Owned Cerro Dominador Inaugurates Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plant in Chile

EIG, a leading institutional investor to the global energy sector and one of the world’s leading infrastructure investors, today announced the inauguration of the Cerro Dominador solar complex following a successful synchronization with the Chilean National Electrical System.

9 Jun 2021