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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

Nottingham Opts for Open-Source IoT Technology to Optimize its Electric Vehicle Fleet

The City of Nottingham is developing an intelligent energy management system (iEMS) for its Clean Mobil Energy project using OpenRemote’s open-source IoT platform.

18 Jan 2021

Earth’s Plants are Heading towards a Temperature ‘Tipping Point’

A new study has indicated that plants’ ability to absorb atmospheric carbon could be halved within the next two decades if global temperatures continue to rise at the current rate.

By Robert Lea 15 Jan 2021

Seagrass Helps to Eliminate Plastics from Coastal Areas

A new study has reported that Posidonia oceanica seagrass—a kind of endemic marine phanerogam that plays a crucial ecological role in the marine environment—can trap and eliminate plastic materials abandoned at the sea.

15 Jan 2021

Study Reports Highest Ocean Temperatures in 2020

Even with the COVID-19-related small dip in global carbon emissions due to limited travel and other activities, the ocean temperatures continued a trend of breaking records in 2020.

15 Jan 2021

Many Lakes in the Northern Hemisphere may Permanently Lose Ice Cover

Close to 5,700 lakes in the Northern Hemisphere may permanently lose ice cover this century, 179 of them in the next decade, at current greenhouse gas emissions, despite a possible polar vortex this year, researchers at York University have found.

15 Jan 2021

Researchers Compare Fuel Options to Achieve Carbon-Neutral Flight in Future

It is politically agreed and necessary for climate protection reasons that our entire economy becomes climate-neutral in the coming decades - and that applies to air travel, too.

15 Jan 2021