"It's a Clark Kent level disguise for the climate crisis," McKay said.
Scientists believe deep-sea aquifers may become important stores of CO2 A new study sheds light on the way salty water acts in deep-sea aquifers, paving the way for further research into carbon storage deep beneath the seabed. Pools of ...
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tuskegee University have formed a partnership to develop new biodegradable materials for use in buildings, transportation and biomedical applications. The collaboration combines ORNL’s expertise in bioscience, high-performance computing and advanced ...
The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is a marine mammal that only lives in the Southern Ocean. Credit: Lluís Cardona (UB-IRBio) The climate crisis is limiting the availability of krill—small crustaceans that are vital in the marine food chain—during ...
Burial chamber of Sennedjem, Scene: Plowing farmer. Credit: Wikipedia. In the grasslands of Nepal’s Chitwan Valley, local farmers rely on the production of rice and other grains to generate household income. But their livelihoods are under threat, as Nepal ...
The size of the circles indicates the statistical effect that each of the 16 factors have on adaptation intention; the color of the circle indicates the country. The larger the circle is, the more likely the variable has a ...
Credit: Oregon State University Oregon State University’s new maps of 30-year U.S. climate “normals” show the area east of the Rockies is getting wetter, the Southwest is getting drier, and temperatures are inching upward—with daily lows rising faster than ...
Changing environmental conditions can put stress on coupled-up animals. Credit: Natasha Gillies, Author provided Not all relationships end in “happily ever after,” and birds are no exception. While more than 90% of bird species form monogamous couples, many of ...
Solar panels need extra care if there's ice and snow in your area.
An image of the front cover of the UCL SDGs report UCL has published its first report setting out how the university is addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Developed by the UCL Sustainable Development Goals Initiative (SDGI), ...
We just got a look at some of the Biden administration's top space priorities.
New results show North Atlantic hurricanes have increased in frequency over the last 150 years.
The COVCO-Basel study by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) has been investigating the health-related and societal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for over a year. New results from the study have shown that people coming from ...
A new study led by VUB biologist Thomas Merckx shows that because of the warmer urban environment in which they live, butterflies and moths display a longer flight season than those in the surrounding countryside. The experiments he and colleagues ...
Children sit by a dug out water hole in a dry river bed in the remote village of Fenoaivo, Madagascar, Nov. 11, 2020. Don’t blame climate change for the devastating Madagascar drought and famine, scientists said in a new ...
Four of the world’s five largest auto groups have declined the pledge with many citing the differing rate of progress around the world
1/2 A Malagasy child eats a meal at the Avotse feeding program that benefits malnourished children with hot meals in Maropia Nord village in the region of Anosy, southern Madagascar September 30, 2021. Picture taken September 30, 2021. REUTERS/Joel Kouam ...
A mating pair of northern gannets nuzzle on Bonaventure Island off the Gaspe Peninsula, July 31, 2017, in Quebec, Canada. The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds that are suffering population declines because of ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The rhizosphere is the narrow region where plant roots and the soil interact vigorously and intensive microbial metabolism occurs. The properties of rhizosphere soil are usually different from that of non-rhizosphere soil. This is called ...
Discussion at MIT explores ways the music industry can help in the battle to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain If all countries adopted the same tax on carbon emissions and returned the revenues to their citizens, it is possible to keep the global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius while also benefiting ...
This sequence of results (five surveys since 2019) begins to paint a picture of Floridians’ attitudes during a period of particularly dynamic political, economic and environmental conditions. Credit: Florida Atlantic University, Center for Environmental Studies Belief in climate change ...
London-based Climate X has launched a platform showing assets that are at risk to extreme weather events stemming from the climate crisis. The startup claims the technology, called Climate X Spectra, can assess the risk related to a location ...
Brussels and other cities as a living lab of ecological change and evolutionary adaptation The Vrije Universiteit Brussel has a new research specialisation in biology. As of today, researcher Thomas Merckx will start the group 'Global Change Biology' within the ...
Credit: Shutterstock Up to 216 Australian birds are now threatened—compared with 195 a decade ago—and climate change is now the main driver pushing threatened birds closer to extinction, landmark new research has found. The Mukarrthippi grasswren is now Australia’s ...
Example of aerial image used by the model that accelerates the seal survey. © NIOZ Scientists at EPFL, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Wageningen University & Research have developed a new deep-learning model for counting the ...
Launched in 2021, DARPA’s ReSource program aims to revolutionize how the military procures critical supplies on the battlefield by engineering self-contained, integrated systems that rapidly produce large quantities of supplies from feedstock collected on-site. Performer teams are tasked with ...
Optimal Group and BOC, a subsidiary of Linde plc, have has announced a Memorandum of Understanding agreement to jointly explore the development of Australia’s first bioLNG facility at the BOC Westbury micro-LNG Plant in Tasmania. The agreement will allow ...
Energy Dome is a carbon dioxide (CO2) power storage which also acts as a power generator that can help in solar power on its power generation and storage. The device is capable of storing as much as 200 megawatts per ...
Cyber Monday may be over, but the savings continue at Goal Zero.
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Scientists from the United States and Europe announced plans Tuesday to create the biggest map of underground fungal networks, arguing they are an important but overlooked piece in the puzzle of how to tackle climate ...
As the climate heats up to increasingly worrying temperatures, more sections of the population are becoming concerned. For some, this concern is translating into a desire to put their money where their mouth is. Fintechs are meeting this demand ...
Field photograph of the Shilou red-clay sequence from the eastern Chinese Loess Plateau. Credit: Ao Hong A recent study by an international research group led by Prof. Ao Hong from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy ...
Aerial photo of the Little Dome C camp. Credit: Carlo Barbante © PNRA/IPEV The first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice is starting in Antarctica at the Little Dome C site. The aim of the project is ...
Maps provide a powerful tool for demonstrating inequality. Credit: VCULibraries/Flickr, CC BY-SA 4.0 I’m a geographer who’s produced many maps depicting human effects on the environment—and demanded we create more of them. A question I am increasingly asked is: ...
The electric car company offers a strong warranty and top-of-the-line energy storage. It also promises to be the cheapest.
Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) are massively dependent on Arctic sea ice. Credit: British Antarctic Survey The polar regions play a crucial role in balancing global climate—with the poles heating up much faster than the rest of the world. Yet, ...
Fig. 1: Shares of PM2.5-related deaths from global power plants as of 2010. Credit: DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01216-1 A team of researchers from China and the U.S. has found that it should be possible to dramatically reduce deaths due to air ...
From left to right: Thomas Burelli, Lauren Touchant and Alexandre Lillo, the three representatives of the Centre Québécois du droit de l’environnement at COP26. Credit: Thomas Burelli, Author provided The recent COP26 was eagerly awaited. Originally planned for 2020, ...
© (Photo: Shutterstock) We can all do our bit to reduce our carbon footprint and adapt to climate change © Provided by The Scotsman As with so many of the world’s problems, dealing with climate change can feel overwhelming. ...