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Atlantic Arc Blue-GIFT to Support Ocean Energy Demonstration

A €2.5 million project has been approved by Interreg Atlantic Area which will support ocean energy demonstration throughout the Atlantic Arc.

2 Nov 2018

New Study Reveals Earth’s Oceans Absorb 60% More Heat than Formerly Thought

According to a research led by scientists at Princeton and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego, for each year during the last quarter century, the world’s oceans have absorbed an amount of heat energy that is 150 times greater than the energy humans generate as electricity each year.

1 Nov 2018

New Satellite Data Reveals the World’s Largest Air Pollution Hotspot is Mpumalanga - South Africa

A groundbreaking analysis of satellite data from 1 June to 31 August this year reveals the world’s largest NO2 air pollution hotspots across six continents in the most detail to date.

30 Oct 2018

Regional Climate Predictions for the UK and Europe Often Inaccurate

Regional climate change over the North Atlantic may not be accurately predicted by climatologists due to outdated computer model simulations.

17 Oct 2018

Geoengineering Alone Will Not Slow Climate Change

The global countries still have to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions to meet the climate targets set in the Paris Agreement, and simply depending on tree planting and other alternative technological solutions, for example, geoengineering will not make a huge difference.

12 Oct 2018

MIT’s Comprehensive Study on Heat Emitted by Earth into Space

The Earth sheds more heat into space as its surface heats up in the same way as an oven radiates more heat to the surrounding kitchen as its internal temperature increases.

25 Sep 2018

New Tarkine Forest Occupation Established to Prevent Logging

Bob Brown Foundation has today announced a new peaceful forest vigil has been established to occupy ancient forests in Tasmania’s takayna / Tarkine. These forests are threatened by a new logging road this Spring / Summer.

18 Sep 2018

35% of Microplastics Released into the World’s Oceans are from Synthetic Textiles

Each time an item of clothing is washed up to 700,000 microscopic fibres make their way into our oceans, where they are swallowed by sea life and become incorporated into the food chain, potentially ending up on our plates, according to a new report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

18 Sep 2018