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Burger King® UK Aims for 0% Single Use Plastic by 2025 as Part of Transparent New Charter

Burger King® UK has set out its road map on sustainability, food quality and ethics in a new charter launched today entitled: Burger King for Good.

3 Mar 2021

Research Will Create New Materials from Recycling’s Waste Products

Heriot-Watt University has joined forces with Brewster Bros, a leading recycling business based in Livingston, to create new materials from the residual waste left over during the recycling process.

3 Mar 2021

Instagram-Trendy Pampas Grass 'Serious Threat to Native Wildlife' in UK, Warns Academic

Councils in England should be discouraged from planting Instagram-friendly pampas grass in coastal areas - because it’s actually a ‘serious threat’ to native wildlife.

3 Mar 2021

Study Explains Which Mountain Snowpacks are Most "At-Risk" from Climate Change

As the planet warms, scientists expect that mountain snowpack should melt progressively earlier in the year. However, observations in the U.S. show that as temperatures have risen, snowpack melt is relatively unaffected in some regions while others can experience snowpack melt a month earlier in the year.

2 Mar 2021

Extreme Rainfall Due to Climate Change in Amazonia Causes Adverse Birth Outcomes

Extreme rainfall associated with climate change is causing harm to babies in some of the most forgotten places on the planet setting in motion a chain of disadvantage down the generations, according to new research in Nature Sustainability.

2 Mar 2021

New Study to Assess the Impact of Global Warming on Siberia's Thawing Permafrost

Northumbria University is to play a leading role in a major study to assess the long-term impact of global warming on Siberia's thawing permafrost.

2 Mar 2021

Tundra Plant Communities Respond Similarly to Microclimate, Study Shows

Researchers are in the search for generalisable rules and patterns in nature. Biogeographer Julia Kemppinen together with her colleagues tested if plant functional traits show similar patterns along microclimatic gradients across far-apart regions from the high-Arctic Svalbard to the sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Kemppinen and her colleagues found surprisingly identical patterns.

2 Mar 2021

Global Warming Could Reduce the Efficiency of Food Chains

Rising temperatures could reduce the efficiency of food chains and threaten the survival of larger animals, new research shows.

2 Mar 2021

New Project Could Replace Petroleum-Based Materials with Vegetable Proteins

Proteins, similar to fats, lignin, and cellulose, are renewable raw materials but their potential for the chemical sector has not been fully explored.

2 Mar 2021

ABB Urges Greater Adoption of High-Efficiency Motors and Drives to Combat Climate Change - Global Electricity Consumption to be Reduced by 10%

In a new whitepaper published today, ABB reveals potential for significant energy efficiency improvements in industry and infrastructure enabled by the latest and most high-efficiency motors and variable speed drives.

From ABB Power Conditioning – Electrification Products Division 2 Mar 2021

Global Catalogue of Ecosystems Launched to Enable Coordinated Conservation Efforts

UNSW and The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have launched the world’s first Global Typology of Ecosystems, the first-ever comprehensive system for classifying and mapping all ecosystems on Earth based on both their functions and composition. The typology allows for more coordinated and effective approaches to conservation management.

2 Mar 2021

Carbon Capture Technology Faces a Difficult Few Years, Finds IDTechEx Research

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), or carbon capture and storage (CCS), is a set of technologies used to strip carbon dioxide from industrial waste gases or directly from the atmosphere. Once the carbon dioxide is captured, it is either stored permanently underground (carbon storage) or it is used for a range of industrial applications (carbon utilization), such as CO2-derived fuels or building materials. CCUS technologies are likely to play a key role in the fight against climate change, with the UN estimating that CCUS could mitigate between 1.5 and 6.3 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalents per year by 2050.

2 Mar 2021

Marine Protected Areas in Oahu Provide Low Safety to Coral Reef Herbivorous Fishes

Marine protected areas (MPAs) surrounding O?ahu do not sufficiently safeguard populations of herbivorous reef fishes that tend to eat algae present on coral reefs.

1 Mar 2021

Pesticide Hinders the Reproduction of Ground-Nesting Bees

An insecticide used to control pest infestations on squash and pumpkins significantly hinders the reproduction of ground-nesting bees -- valuable pollinators for many food crops, a new University of Guelph study has revealed.

1 Mar 2021

Warming of Atlantic Coastal Waters may Enhance the Spread of Invasive Blue Catfish

A study by researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science suggests that continued warming of Atlantic coastal waters may enhance the spread of invasive blue catfish within the Chesapeake Bay and other estuaries along the U.S. East Coast.

1 Mar 2021