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Role of Ancestral Plasticity in Genetic Adaptations

The rate of environmental change is exceptionally hard for wild organisms. Individual plants and animals can possibly adapt their biology to effectively cope with new pressures when confronted with a new environment; this is known as phenotypic plasticity.

30 Jan 2023

Quality Control System for Ocean Temperature In-Situ Profiles

Over the last century, various devices acquired over 16 million ocean temperature profiles. But each instrumentation gives data with varying degrees of precision, quality, and metadata completion.

30 Jan 2023

New Project to Support Climate Change Adaptation, Green Infrastructure, and Urban Design Planning

A new Horizon Europe project led by IIASA, called Urban ReLeaf, leverages citizen science for public sector innovation.

27 Jan 2023

Boosting Green Aviation with Hydrogen-Electric Engines

ZeroAvia, a British/American aerospace company founded in 2018, has recently made aviation history by flying a 19-seat Dornier 228 test aircraft powered by a hydrogen-electric engine.

From ZeroAvia 26 Jan 2023

Analyzing the Environmental Impact of Corrosion

Each year, almost a trillion dollars are spent in the United States to combat metallic corrosion, an electrochemical reaction that happens when metals oxidize and start to rust.

25 Jan 2023

Comprehensive Analysis of Regional Sea-Level Rise Assessments

According to new research in Earth’s Future guided by Andra Garner, a Climate Scientist at Rowan University, most communities in the United States misjudge how much the sea level will rise in their location.

25 Jan 2023

Global Warming Reaches Even the Remote Ice Sheet Locations in Greenland

At high elevations of the Greenland Ice Sheet, the years 2001 to 2011 were 1.5 °C warmer than in the 20th century and represent the warmest decade in the last thousand years.

24 Jan 2023

Sediments—The Key to Salt Marsh Survival

Salt marshes, key habitats threatened by accelerated sea-level rise, may persist despite increased water levels, according to a group of scientists guided by Brian Yellen, Research Professor of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

24 Jan 2023

First KNX Hackathon Focuses on Smart Home and Building Solutions for a More Sustainable World

KNX is stepping up its efforts in the fight against climate change and has announced the first KNX Hackathon on the topic of sustainability for this year.

24 Jan 2023

Climate Tech Startups Offered £130k to Supercharge Urgent Missions

Global climate tech accelerator and regranter Subak today launches applications for its 2023 cohort and calls on not-for-profit startups with data-led climate missions to apply.

From Naked Energy Ltd. 23 Jan 2023