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New Wastewater Treatment Process Degrades Microplastics at Source

At the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), a research group under Professor Patrick Drogui has created a new process for the electrolytic treatment of wastewater that breaks down microplastics at the source.

19 Jan 2021

UCI Study: Future Climate Change Will Cause an Uneven Shift of the Earth's Tropical Rain Belt

Future climate change will cause a regionally uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt - a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the equator - according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions. This development may threaten food security for billions of people.

19 Jan 2021

Decarbonizing Policies can be Designed and Balanced to Benefit Local Firms, Lower-Income Families

A review of ten types of policy used to reduce carbon suggests that some costs fall on those less able to bear them – but it also shows these policies can form the bedrock of a ‘green recovery’ if specifically designed and used in tandem.

19 Jan 2021

Study Shows How Ectotherms Respond to Global Warming

Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile have shown that thermal tolerance differs quantifiably according to body size in ectotherms—animals whose body temperature mainly relies on environmental temperature (the majority of the animals).

18 Jan 2021

Scientists Provide Recommendations to Improve the Indian Ocean Observing System

A group of more than 60 scientists have provided recommendations to improve the Indian Ocean Observing System (IndOOS), a basin-wide monitoring system to better understand the impacts of human-caused climate change in a region that has been warming faster than any other ocean.

18 Jan 2021

Plant Pathologists Compile Data About Annual Corn Reductions Caused by Diseases

Plant pathologists working at universities across 26 corn-producing states in the United States and in Ontario, Canada, compiled data about annual corn reductions caused by diseases. Estimated loss from each disease varied greatly by region.

18 Jan 2021

Review Highlights Heat-Health Outcome Nexus in the Urban Context

Over the last half-century, the probability of heat extreme events has changed by orders of magnitude in almost every region of the world, with occurrences that are now up to a hundred times more in respect to a century ago.

18 Jan 2021

Ocean Acidification Restricts Algal Communities to Low Biodiversity, Complexity

The New Year’s saying “out with the old, in with the new” may not suit the marine environment.

18 Jan 2021

Blow Those Costs Away: Octopus Energy Launches World’s First Electricity Tariff that Gets Cheaper When it’s Windy

Octopus Energy, UK’s fastest growing energy supplier, moves up the energy supply chain with the acquisition of its first two own-brand wind turbines which will bring cheaper greener power to local communities. The move is accompanied by the launch of the world's first local time-of-use wind tariff.

18 Jan 2021

Kayrros Sees Decreased Emissions from Methane Hotspots in Kuwait, Iraq, Turkmenistan and U.S. in 2020, Offset by Increases in Kazakhstan, Russia and Algeria

Kayrros, the leading advanced data analytics company focused on satellite imagery and alternative data for enhanced decision-making, today releases its data showing the year-on-year shifts in emissions from large methane hotspots recorded across 12 oil and gas-producing regions in 2020 compared to the prior year.

18 Jan 2021