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Valio Researching Future Food Production Using Cellular Agriculture Methods

Valio and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland are together launching a project to research what kinds of food industry raw materials could be produced using cellular agriculture.

9 Dec 2021

Food and Housing Crisis for Melbourne's Native Bees

RMIT researchers call on Melburnians to plant the right plants and create the right homes for native pollinators.

9 Dec 2021

Mindful Chef Becomes the First Recipe Box Company to Introduce Carbon Labelling

Mindful Chef is pleased to announce that it has become the first recipe box company to carbon label its recipes, as a new Low Carbon range launched on the menu on 3rd December.

8 Dec 2021

New Robust Tool for Faster, Economical, Easier Coral Reef Monitoring

Scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), the University of Tokyo, and the Okinawa Prefecture Environment Science Center have engineered a tool that can establish the diversity of hard corals on a reef by examining the DNA in a sample of seawater.

7 Dec 2021

UNESCO-IPCC-ICOMOS Meeting Focuses on Strengthening Synergies Between Climate Science and Culture

Strengthening synergies between culture and climate science in the common fight against climate change will be at the centre of the first ever meeting organised jointly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) from 6 to 10 December 2021.

7 Dec 2021

Decarbonizing Steel Production: Metso Outotec Launches Next Generation of the 100% Hydrogen-Based Circored Process for Fine Ore Reduction

Finding new solutions to decarbonize the steelmaking value chain is a must for the industry to become fossil-free and to help limit global warming to 1.5 °C.

From Metso Outotec Corporation 7 Dec 2021

Social Acceptability of Carbon Taxes Increases by Spending Revenues on Climate Projects

The creation of a carbon tax would be more widely accepted by the public if the revenue raised were used to finance climate projects. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by researchers at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autnomade Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), which analyses the fact that how governments spend revenues influences the acceptance and perception of the tax.

6 Dec 2021

Green Synthesis of Metal Particle Modified Photocatalysts for Reducing Nitrate to Ammonia

Compare with bulk graphitic carbon nitride, the optimal sample had 2.93-fold photocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia activity (2.627?mg/h/gcat), and the NH3 selectivity increased from 50.77% to 77.9%. They published their approach on September 06 in the Energy Material Advances.

6 Dec 2021

Robust Policy Interventions can Help Smallholder Farmers Withstand the Effects of Climate Change

A project by researchers from Princeton University and IIASA investigated how different climate scenarios and policy interventions could affect smallholder farmers in Nepal who stand to lose up to a quarter of their income by 2050 due to the effects of climate change.

3 Dec 2021

Researchers Investigate Different Factors that Affect Households' Climate Adaptation

The climate is changing, not only in the Netherlands, but far beyond as well. The UN climate conference in Glasgow in 2021 had a clear message: climate adaptation is required of everyone; from governments to individuals around the world.

3 Dec 2021