A team of researchers has established a new method of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into oxygen (O2) and pure carbon monoxide (CO) without producing hydrogen gas (H2) and methane (CH4) as by-products.
By Sarah Moore
21 Jan 2020
Australia’s devastating drought is having a critical impact on the iconic platypus, a globally unique mammal, with increasing reports of rivers drying up and platypuses becoming stranded.
A research team at the University of Alberta has come up with several methods that can save a great deal of time when producing highly efficient carbon capture technologies.
China’s Vow to Phase Out Single-use Plastics
By David J. Cross
20 Jan 2020
GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business has been awarded a multi-million dollar project for the design, supply, construction and commissioning of onshore and offshore wind substations for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm, 12 miles off the Fife coast in Scotland.
In a world first, sugarcane farmers in far north Queensland have a new app by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, that will help them manage fertiliser use and reduce nitrogen runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef.
To avoid the most destructive consequences of climate change, the world's electric energy systems must stop producing carbon by 2050. It seems like an overwhelming technological, political, and economic challenge — but not to Nestor Sepulveda.
Flinders researchers have studied the giant cassowary’s eating, breathing and vocal structures and found a surprising missing link between two vastly different birds thought to be each other’s closest relative, the small flights South American tinamou, and the New Zealand moa.
Global adventure travel company, Exodus Travels has today announced they are one of the founding signatories of the ‘Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency’ pledge, in an effort to fight climate change and significantly reduce the growing environmental footprint of the tourism industry.
A record-breaking area of unusually warm water known as ‘the blob’ is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of around one million seabirds. Between the years 2013 and 2016, this patch of water lurke...
By David J. Cross
16 Jan 2020
According to a research review on wildfire and global climate change risk published recently, climate change caused by humans supports conditions that lead to wildfires, thereby increasing their chances of occurrence.
More than a billion people around the world are living without electricity. The problem is more serious in rural regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, where many cell phone owners are not able to charge their devices at home and a majority of the families spend their evenings in total darkness.
Climate is said to be a significant factor when it comes to establishing the growing zone of plant species. Toward the end of the next century, climate change is estimated to cause certain species to spread several dozens of kilometers north of their existing distribution regions, suggest several studies.
During the middle Miocene Climate Optimum period, global temperatures were warmer by 3 to 4 degrees, compared to present average temperatures, analogous to the estimates for the year 2100. The seas were thriving with life and the continents’ positions were just like today.
Biodiverse ecosystems are known to function better, compared to monocultures. At the University of Zurich, ecologists have currently demonstrated that the same holds true on a larger level.