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ORNL Study: Enhancing Urban Sustainability Through Vegetation Resilience

Local decision-makers looking for ways to reduce the impact of heat waves on their communities have a valuable new capability at their disposal: a new study on vegetation resilience.

9 May 2024

New Lab Simulates Future Conditions to Breed Heat-Resistant Crops

The University of Essex just opened a £3 million plant lab to fight climate change by developing new crops that can thrive in hotter and drier conditions.

9 May 2024

Reflective Ground Covers Boost Solar Panel Efficiency

The University of Ottawa researchers developed a way to boost solar panel efficiency by adding reflective surfaces under the panels.

8 May 2024

Cemvita Achieves Breakthrough in SAF Feedstock Production

Today, Cemvita, a biosolutions leader for the energy industry, announces a significant breakthrough enabling the company to produce substantial quantities of its Sustainable Oil from waste carbon sources.

From Cemvita Inc. 8 May 2024

Picarro Hero Award Winners Advance World's Understanding of Air, Water, Plants, and Soil

Scientists’ submissions describe how Picarro analyzers are used to research greenhouse gases, global warming, and whether life might have existed elsewhere in our solar system. Image Credit: Pogonici/Shutterstoc...

From Picarro 7 May 2024

Carbon Capture Overestimated in Reforestation Models, Study Reveals

Reforestation models have been over exaggerated -- and not by a small factor -- but by as many as three times of a factor. The goal set by the Paris Agreement in 2015 for countries to limit their global warming to 1.5 degrees is now close to being surpassed.

6 May 2024

Current CO2 Removal Plans Insufficient to Meet Paris Agreement Goals

An international team of scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) led by the Berlin-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) conducted a study, which was published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

6 May 2024

New Algorithm Paves Way for Higher Resolution Climate Predictions

A group of scientists from the University of Oxford developed a new algorithm that reduces spin-up time by 90%, allowing for faster and more reliable climate predictions. The research was published in the journal Science Advances.

2 May 2024

Understanding Climate Sensitivity: Research Offers Insight Into Future Warming Projections

A detailed reconstruction of climate during the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, provides information on the relationship between CO2 and global temperature. Results show that while most future warming estimates remain unchanged, the absolute worst-case scenario is unlikely.

29 Apr 2024

Land Use Change Blamed for Up to 11 % Global Biodiversity Decline

A comprehensive multi-model study published in Science, led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), reveals that global biodiversity decreased by 2% to 11% solely due to land-use changes in the 20th century.

26 Apr 2024