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Endangered Plants and Lichens at Risk from Climate Change

Recent research coming out of Pennsylvania State University reveals that all plants and lichens outlined as endangered under the Endangered Species Act are vulnerable to climate change, but little effort has been made to address this threat directly.

27 Jul 2023

Organic Waste Bans Not as Effective as Dynamic Pricing in Reducing Food Waste

While composting and organic waste ban policies are gaining popularity across the United States, a new study from the University of California San Diego's Rady School of Management finds dynamic pricing could be the most effective way for grocery chains to keep perishables out of landfills, reducing food waste by 21% or more.

27 Jul 2023

Atlantic Ocean Current Could Collapse in 34 Years

Important ocean currents that redistribute heat, cold and precipitation between the tropics and the northernmost parts of the Atlantic region will shut down around the year 2060 if current greenhouse gas emissions persist.

27 Jul 2023

Climate Variability Disrupts Arctic Spring Timing

About 15 years ago, researchers reported that the timing of spring in high-Arctic Greenland had advanced at some of the fastest rates of change ever seen anywhere in the world.

27 Jul 2023

Inverse Approach to Food Web Modeling Offers New Insights into Ecosystem Stability

In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, authors Gabriel Gellner and Kevin McCann from the University of Guelph and SFI External Professor Alan Hastings (UC Davis) invert a classical approach to modeling food webs.

27 Jul 2023

TIPA Survey Finds Majority of Sustainability-Minded Americans Prefer Compostable Packaging to Recycled Packaging

TIPA, a global leader in compostable packaging solutions for food and fashion, released today the results of its recently conducted survey on consumer perceptions toward alternative packaging, finding that 84% of Americans are concerned by plastic waste generated from packaging.

From TIPA Compostable Packaging 27 Jul 2023

Nominations Open for UK’s Biggest Renewable Energy Awards

The UK’s biggest celebration of renewable energy, The Scottish Green Energy Awards 2023, opens today (July 26) for nominations.

27 Jul 2023

Drax Approved for New £500m Cruachan 2 Pumped Storage Hydro Project

Drax Group today (July 25) announced it has secured development consent from The Scottish Government for its plans to build a new £500m underground pumped storage hydro plant at its existing Cruachan facility in Argyll.

27 Jul 2023

Hardide Coatings Awarded Innovate UK Funding

Advanced surface coating technology company, Hardide Coatings has been awarded funding from Innovate UK to further study the flexural behaviour of the Hardide chemical vapour deposition (CVD) coatings under high static and cyclic loading conditions.

27 Jul 2023

ABB Launches New I/O Series to Meet Digital Demands of Oil and Gas Fields

The next evolution in smart remote I/O, the ABB XIO series is an extended range of all-in-one devices to monitor, control and manage oil and gas flow applications.

27 Jul 2023

Innovative Climate Tool Expands to Support More Farmers

The Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO have unveiled a new name for their digital information product 'My Climate View', along with updates to help more farmers make informed decisions now to build climate resilience for decades to come.

27 Jul 2023

BT Group to Launch Electric Vehicle Charging Pilots

BT Group today announces that its start-up and Digital incubation team, Etc., will, over the next two years, conduct technical and commercial pilots to convert or upgrade its street cabinets for electric vehicle charging units.

27 Jul 2023

El Niño Events Have Different Effects on Rainfall in West Antarctica

The rainfall in West Antarctica, particularly around the Antarctic Peninsula, shows large inconsistency on the inter-annual time scale.

26 Jul 2023

Atlantic Ocean Current May Collapse Due to Climate Change

Unlike what one imagines about the effect of climate change in Europe, a colder future may be coming in a few days. In recent research, scientists from the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute and Department of Mathematical Sciences forecast that the system of ocean currents that currently distribute heat and cold between the North Atlantic region and tropics will entirely stop if people keep emitting the same levels of greenhouse gases as they do right now.

26 Jul 2023

Consumers Prefer Climate-Friendly Products That Reduce Emissions, Not Offset Them

Whether it's recycled aluminum at Apple's MacBook Air or compensation payments from Microsoft for emissions over the life of an Xbox, climate-friendly products are becoming more and more popular.

26 Jul 2023