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Roadmap Offers Solutions For Future Of Food, Global Ag Innovation

To deflect future world food crises created by climate change and growing consumer demand, a Cornell University-led international team of economists, scientists and business experts has created a road map for global agricultural and food systems innovation, reform and sustainability.

11 Dec 2020

Global Response to Climate Change is Completely Insufficient, Say Ex UN Leaders

Justifiable pride can be taken in the incremental accomplishments of international climate change cooperation, but it is "unthinkable" to continue at the current pace. The global response to climate change is completely insufficient and leaves the world on a "road to hell".

11 Dec 2020

Global CO2 Emissions Drop Significantly Due to COVID-19 Lockdowns

The global COVID-19 lockdowns caused fossil carbon dioxide emissions to decline by an estimated 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 - a record drop according to researchers at Future Earth's Global Carbon Project.

11 Dec 2020

New Project to Develop a Sustainable Technology for Production of Green Ammonia

In a new project, researchers from Aarhus University and Stanford University will develop a sustainable technology for local-scale production of green ammonia.

11 Dec 2020

Study Reveals Drop in Fertilizing Effect of Excess CO2 on Vegetation Worldwide

Plants tend to remove CO2 from the air when they absorb it for their growth. Thus, CO2 gets sequestered in their roots, trunk, or branches.

11 Dec 2020

Rising Temperatures are Increasingly Thawing Permafrost Soils

In the northern hemisphere, around one-quarter of the ground is permanently frozen. It has been estimated that these regions contain carbon that is almost twice as much as the present atmosphere in the world.

11 Dec 2020

Thermal Energy Storage the Key to Reducing Agricultural Food Pollution

UniSA thermal energy researcher Professor Frank Bruno has been awarded almost $1 million by the Federal Government to find a solution to agricultural pollution in Australia and India.

11 Dec 2020

Amazon Becomes World’s Largest Corporate Purchaser of Renewable Energy, Advancing its Climate Pledge Commitment to be Net-zero Carbon by 2040

Amazon today announced 26 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects totaling 3.4 gigawatts (GW) of electricity production capacity, bringing its total investment in renewable energy in 2020 to 35 projects and more than 4 GW of capacity — the largest corporate investment in renewable energy in a single year. These new projects will make Amazon the largest-ever corporate purchaser of renewable energy.

11 Dec 2020

Norway Launches Major Wind Power Research Centre

Today the Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Tina Bru, announced an investment of 120 million NOK (11.3 million EUR) in a new wind power research centre in Norway.

11 Dec 2020

Renewables Still the Cheapest New-Build Power in Australia

A new report from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has more accurately calculated the integration costs of renewables in electricity generation and found that solar and wind continue to be the cheapest source of energy in Australia.

11 Dec 2020

Engineering Firm Gears Up Waste Management Wake Up in the UK

A leading UK engineering firm has its sights firmly set on transforming the nation’s approach to waste management in 2021.

11 Dec 2020

Interaction Between Plastic Mulch and Pesticides Leads to an Environmental Problem

The use of plastic mulch (plastic covering on crop lines) is a widespread technique used in agricultural regions in order to increase the profitability of the crops. According to the European Commission, 100,000 tonnes of plastic mulch was used per year in the European Union in 2016.

10 Dec 2020

Nature Conservation Practices Need to More Dynamic to Weather the Impacts of Climate Change

In a hard-hitting new paper leading ecologists and climate change specialists argue that current nature conservation practices are not sufficiently flexible and dynamic to weather the impacts of climate change.

10 Dec 2020

New Research to Assess the Impacts of Climate Change on Population Dynamics

The European Research Council (ERC) will fund groundbreaking research led by IIASA World Population Program Deputy Director Raya Muttarak, which will comprehensively address the impacts of climate change on population dynamics.

10 Dec 2020

Coral Recovery Following Prolonged Heatwaves

Biologists from the University of Victoria have identified how a few coral species have been able to survive a worldwide unprecedented heatwave, as part of the first study to offer new hope for the long-term persistence of coral reefs in the face of climate change.

By Robert Lea 10 Dec 2020