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Sentinel-3A Satellite Helps Study How Carbon Dioxide is Transferred from Atmosphere into Oceans

About a quarter of the carbon dioxide we release each year into the atmosphere ends up in the ocean, but how it happens is still not fully understood. The Sentinel-3A satellite is poised to play an important role in shedding new light on this exchange.

2 Mar 2016

New Study Assesses Impact of International Conservation Aid on Deforestation

With over $3.4 billion spent in international conservation funding to protect biodiversity and stop tropical deforestation in Africa since the early 1990s, it makes sense to ask if the funding is effective. A recent study finds that conservation aid alone has not been able to counteract deforestation pressures, and in some cases may have even exacerbated forest loss.

2 Mar 2016

Experts Warn of Impending Public Health Crisis Brought on by Climate Change

Climate change is already having a noticeable impact on the environment and global health. Around the world extreme weather events, increased temperatures, drought, and rising sea levels are all adversely affecting our ability to grow food, access clean water, and work safely outdoors.

2 Mar 2016

Deep-Water Controlled Experiment Aims to Verify Safety of Offshore CO2 Capture and Storage

The world's first 'real world' deep-water controlled experiment to simulate an emission from a submerged carbon dioxide storage reservoir aims to further verify the safety of offshore carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS).

2 Mar 2016

Development of Coal-to-Chemicals Industries Could Affect China’s Clean Energy Measures

China’s plan to ramp up production of new chemicals and synthetic fuels made from coal could derail recent efforts to lower its carbon dioxide emissions and instead lock the Chinese government into high-carbon investments for years to come, a new Duke University study finds.

2 Mar 2016

UCLA Researchers and Tata Group to Develop Advanced Technologies for Delivering Energy More Efficiently

Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (DDL), a joint venture of the Tata Group and the government of Delhi, and researchers at UCLA have reached an agreement to develop advanced technologies for delivering energy more efficiently, less expensively and to more people in India and developing countries.

2 Mar 2016

Scientists Demonstrate Rapid Biofuel Production from Waste Cooking Oil

Researchers from the Gas Engineering Department at the Petroleum University of Technology, in Ahwaz, Iran, have created a high-speed conversion method capable of turning waste cooking oil into fuel, using caustic soda and ultrasound. Biodiesel signifies a fuel that is likely to be cleaner and more sustainable than crude oil-based fuels.

2 Mar 2016

JRC Literature Review Discusses Challenges in Economically Viable Production of Algal Biofuels

The last decade saw a vast amount of research and investment, accompanied with high expectations for algal biofuels. A review from JRC highlighted that despite such immense work, technological options are still in their developing stages, and chief resources for algal growth are still extremely onerous for economically feasible production of algal biofuels. Commercial, large-scale algae-to-biofuels facilities were not implemented until the end of 2015.

2 Mar 2016

Warm Water Causes Aquatic Animals to Suffer from Fatal Respiratory Distress

Until now, the link between rising water temperatures and higher mortality rates in aquatic animals was a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation.

1 Mar 2016

Grasslands Across North America to Face Higher Summer Temperatures and Widespread Drought

Grasslands across North America will face higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century, according to a new Harvard study on the effects of climate change.

1 Mar 2016

Plastic Waste Could Move into Ocean Depths Through Faeces of Plankton

Plastic waste could find its way deep into the ocean through the faeces of plankton, new research from the University of Exeter and Plymouth Marine Laboratory shows.

1 Mar 2016

ICES Journal of Marine Science Announces Publication of Special Issue on Ocean Acidification

Today, the ICES Journal of Marine Science publishes a special issue on ocean acidification, the most-studied single topic in marine science.

1 Mar 2016

Introduction of European Union Policies and New Technologies Reduces Air Pollution

A study led by the University of Leeds has found that about 80,000 deaths are prevented each year due to the introduction of European Union (EU) policies and new technologies to reduce air pollution.

1 Mar 2016

Scientists Show Damage Costs Increase at Higher Rate than Sea-Level Rise

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions. However, while it is now rather well understood how sea-levels will rise in the future, only small progress has been made estimating how the implied damage for cities at the coasts will increase during the next decades.

29 Feb 2016

Researchers Develop and Test Framework Based on Consumer's Accountability for Carbon Emission

How much do consumers care about the carbon footprint of the products they buy? Would they care more if the goods were labeled with emissions data? Does it matter at which stage in the lifecycle of a product the carbon is emitted? Research published in the International Journal of Environmental Policy and Decision Making offers a way to find out.

29 Feb 2016