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IIASA Researchers Examine the Feasibility and Fairness of Emissions Targets for the European Climate Law

In two new reports, IIASA researchers, with support from colleagues at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), examined the feasibility and fairness of emissions targets and considerations for the European Climate Law.

15 Jun 2023

Carbon Stocks Found in Deep Soil As a Result of Climate Change

Subsoils are both the largest storehouses for carbon and one of the key sources of CO2 in the atmosphere.

15 Jun 2023

Heavier Rainfall Threatens the Existence of Giraffes

Giraffes in East African savannahs are adjusting very well to increased temperatures brought on by climate change. However, as scientists from the University of Zurich and Pennsylvania State University have revealed, they are under threat from increasing rainfall.

13 Jun 2023

NCEO Intensifies its Monitoring of the Devastating Smoke Plume

The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) is helping bring a group together to support data images for the public and analyst insight through its headquarters at Space Park Leicester.

13 Jun 2023

Anthropogenic Climate Change: A Major Driver of Wildfire Damage

Wildfires in California destroyed five times more areas between 1996 and 2020 than they did from 1971 to 1995. Investigators from the University of California and other international institutions have established that human-caused climate change is to blame for nearly all of the increase in scorched terrain.

13 Jun 2023

Taking Sustainability to New Heights With Cleaner Wind Power

A group of researchers at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) are attempting to develop compostable, environmentally compatible wind turbine blades using bamboo and mycelium (a fungal rootlike network of hyphae that sprouts mushrooms).

13 Jun 2023

Carbon Sequestration by Whales Makes a Minimal Impact on Climate Change

Do whales increase the removal of carbon from the atmosphere? Despite some hope that this would be the case, a new study led by Griffith University and a team of global researchers has found the amount of potential carbon capture by whales is too little to meaningfully alter the course of climate change.

12 Jun 2023

Energy Vault Selects Plug Power to Supply 8 MW of Hydrogen Fuel Cells as Part of Hybrid Microgrid Back-up System for PG&E and the City of Calistoga

Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG), a leading provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, announced it will discuss the new partnership, including software collaboration with Energy Vault Holdings, Inc., at its analyst day in Rochester on June 14th.

From Plug Power Inc 12 Jun 2023

First Sketch Map of the Subglacial Geology of Thwaites Glacier Revealed

The ground beneath Antarctica’s most fragile glacier has been mapped for the very first time by a group headed by a Swansea expert allowing researchers to better understand how climate change is affecting it.

9 Jun 2023

Green Aviation: Electrifying the Aviation Industry for a Greener Future

With electric road vehicles now more commonplace than ever, it has become even more pressing to find environmentally compatible ways to transport people and goods through the skies in an attempt to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

8 Jun 2023