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New Study to Establish a Roadmap for Responsible Exploration of Solar Geoengineering

According to researchers, it is probably not going to be enough for the Earth to escape catastrophic damage from climate change by just reducing the emissions of greenhouse gas.

9 Jan 2019

New Refreshing, Photo-Catalytic Pigments Decrease Building Temperature and Pollution

The Environmental Inorganic Chemistry and Ceramic Materials team at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón, Spain, has created a research project to evaluate, transfer, and leverage refreshing and photo-catalytic pigments (cool pigments) with a Scheelite base.

8 Jan 2019

Climate Change Might Lead to Considerable Increase in Chinese Residential Electricity Use

An innovative study by Duke University and Fudan University in China has been the first to predict the increase in Chinese residential electricity consumption as a result of climate change. It is a considerable amount.

26 Dec 2018

New Study Quantifies Impact of Droughts on Emissions Due to Power Generation from Fossil Fuels as Alternative

There was an increase in emissions of harmful air pollutants and carbon dioxide from power generation plants in various western U.S. states due to the recent droughts.

24 Dec 2018

Novel Carbon Powder Could Capture CO2 from Power Plants and Factories

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have produced a powder with the potential to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plants and factories.

20 Dec 2018

New MIT Reports Propose Practical Emissions-Reduction Strategies for Latin America and Southeast Asia

The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), presently assembling in Katowice, Poland, amid grim warnings from the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C and the National Climate Assessment regarding the speed of climate change and severity of its effects, strives to get the world on track to maintain global warming much below 2 °C.

11 Dec 2018

Study Reveals Expansion of Bioenergy Crop Production Could Be as Bad for Biodiversity as Climate Change

According to a new study, a large-scale expansion in bioenergy crop production could be just as harmful to biodiversity as climate change itself.

11 Dec 2018

Research Reveals Humans Are Reversing Long-Term Cooling Trend Tracing Back 50 Million Years

The future of humans on Earth could also be their past.

11 Dec 2018

Study Looks at Potential Implications of Shifting to Plant-Based Plastics

Usually, bioplastics are promoted as a climate- and eco-friendly alternative to traditional plastics based on petroleum. However, according to a new study conducted by the University of Bonn, transitioning to plant-based plastics may have less positive impacts than anticipated.

10 Dec 2018

China Could Massively Increase Solar Power Generation by Fighting Smog

In Beijing, the air is so bad that a brown sheath made of exhaust gases from cars, coal fires, and industry covers the city, blowing significant amounts of dangerous particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and soot into the atmosphere.

7 Dec 2018