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Combining Two Tools Could Boost Understanding of Carbon Dioxide Uptake by Plants

How much carbon dioxide, a pivotal greenhouse gas behind global warming, is absorbed by plants on land?

22 Sep 2020

New Method Transforms Food Waste into High-Value Products

How can individuals sustainably utilize natural resources, like water and arable land? This is one of the most pressing problems being faced by current society.

22 Sep 2020

Octopus Energy Launches Major Partnership with Volkswagen to Fast-Track Uptake of Electric Vehicles

Octopus Energy, the EnTech pioneer, today announced a significant new partnership with the world’s largest car manufacturer, Volkswagen Group.

From Octopus Energy Ltd 22 Sep 2020

The Impact of Undersea Earthquakes on Climate Change

Although climate change is most evident to people in the form of melting glaciers or unseasonably warm winter days, around 95% of the additional heat trapped on Earth by greenhouse gases is retained in the global oceans.

21 Sep 2020

Aussie Backyard Bird Count Essential for Conservation as We Head into Bushfire Season

BirdLife Australia are calling all Australians to take part in their Aussie Backyard Bird Count this year, 19-25 October – the nation’s largest conservation event – to help track and protect native birds for future generations.

21 Sep 2020

Elevenstore First Aussie Clean-Tech Start-up to Win Place at World-Renowned Business School

For the first time, an Australian entry has made it through to the prestigious Accelerator business school in Europe, by winning the Southeast Asian final of the world’s biggest cleantech competition.

21 Sep 2020

New Study Finds a Trigger for the Little Ice Age

A new study finds a trigger for the Little Ice Age that cooled Europe from the 1300s through mid-1800s, and supports surprising model results suggesting that under the right conditions sudden climate changes can occur spontaneously, without external forcing.

18 Sep 2020

Deep-Sea Coral Reefs at Risk of Collapse Due to Ocean Acidification

Deep-sea coral reefs face challenges as changes to ocean chemistry triggered by climate change may cause their foundations to become brittle, a study suggests.

18 Sep 2020

Scientists Estimate Impact of Earth's Melting Ice Sheets on Global Sea Levels by 2100

An international consortium of researchers under the aegis of CMIP6 has calculated new estimates for the melting of Earth's ice sheets due to greenhouse gas emissions and its impact on sea levels, showing that the ice sheets could together contribute more than 40 cm by the end of 2100.

18 Sep 2020

Turtle Scavenging Regulates Freshwater Ecosystem Health

Freshwater turtles may have a role in regulating water quality in river systems by scavenging fish carcasses, suggests a study of Emydura macquarii, a vulnerable freshwater turtle species found in Australia. The findings are published in Scientific Reports.

18 Sep 2020

Ecological Economics is Necessary to Deal with Climate Change-Fueled Economic Model

Economist Joan Martínez Alier from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona considers that ecological economics is more necessary than ever as a way to tackle today's completely "antiecological" economic model which is favouring climate change and destroying our biodiversity.

18 Sep 2020