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New Evidence that Environmental Policy Affects Municipal Bond Yields

Research has studied the effects of climate risk on financial markets, but few studies have addressed the effect of environmental policy on those markets. A new study examined whether federal policy aimed at mitigating local air pollution--specifically, the Clean Air Act--affected the municipal bond market from 2005 to 2019.

25 Jan 2021

OHIO Professor Receives $1 Million in Grants to Develop Sustainable Construction Materials

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced $8.7 million in awards to "Develop Emerging Carbon-Based Building and Construction Materials," with OHIO's Jason Trembly receiving two $500,000 grants for two separate projects focused on addressing climate change and sustainability issues surrounding construction and infrastructure.

25 Jan 2021

International Collaboration Receives EU Grant to Produce Green Ammonia

Horizon 2020—the EU framework programme for research and innovation— will grant DKK 21 million to a new international collaboration to explore new ways of creating green ammonia.

25 Jan 2021

A New Method to Produce 'Green' Ammonia from Air, Water and Renewable Electricity

Chemical engineers at UNSW Sydney have found a way to make 'green' ammonia from air, water and renewable electricity that does not require the high temperatures, high pressure and huge infrastructure currently needed to produce this essential compound.

22 Jan 2021

Slight Surface Cooling Hides Rapid Warming of the Deep Antarctic Waters

Scientists from the CNRS, CNES, IRD, Sorbonne Université, l'Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier and their Australian colleagues, with the support of the IPEV, have provided a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of Southern Ocean temperatures over the last 25 years.

22 Jan 2021

Newly Discovered Effect Could Possibly Mitigate Climate-Related Species Extinction

Changes in climate that occur over short periods of time influence biodiversity. For a realistic assessment of these effects, it is necessary to also consider previous temperature trends going far back into Earth's history.

22 Jan 2021

Study Highlights the Need to Improve Estimates of Methane Emissions from Abandoned Wells

A recent McGill study published in Environmental Science and Technology finds that annual methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas (AOG) wells in Canada and the US have been greatly underestimated - by as much as 150% in Canada, and by 20% in the US.

22 Jan 2021

Analysis of Alaskan Tree Rings can Help Fine-Tune Future Climate Predictions

University of Arizona researchers read between the lines of tree rings to reconstruct exactly what happened in Alaska the year that the Laki Volcano erupted half a world away in Iceland.

22 Jan 2021

Research on World's Largest Lakes Provide New Understanding of Climate Change Trends

NASA-funded research on the 11 largest freshwater lakes in the world coupled field and satellite observations to provide a new understanding of how large bodies of water fix carbon, as well as how a changing climate and lakes interact.

22 Jan 2021

Increasing Global Temperatures may Place Airports at Risk of Coastal Flooding

Even a modest sea level rise, triggered by increasing global temperatures, would place 100 airports below mean sea level by 2100, a new study has found.

22 Jan 2021

New Photosensitive-Nanostructured Electrodes for Green Hydrogen Production

A team of researchers from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has collaborated with French researchers from the Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES), a joint research lab of CNRS and University of Strasbourg, to open the door to the synthesis of green hydrogen.

22 Jan 2021