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California’s Climate-Change Solution Arsenal may be in Jeopardy, Research Reports

The State of California is banking on its forests to help reduce planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But that element of the state's climate-change solution arsenal may be in jeopardy, as new research from the University of California, Irvine reports that trees in California's mountain ranges and open spaces are dying from wildfires and other pressures – and fewer new trees are filling the void.

15 Jul 2022

Waste Warning: Recycling Rates Drop in Over Half of Local Authorities in England

A new study finds that 53% of local authorities in England have seen a drop in household waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting over the last five years.

15 Jul 2022

Researchers Optimise Green Methanol Production to Reduce Transport Carbon Emissions

For the last year, ten European and Japanese research expert organisations have been working together on the LAURELIN project to develop innovative processes to convert CO2 in renewable methanol.

15 Jul 2022

Establishing Mitigation Pathways for a Climate-Neutral Austria

Over the next three years, more than 120 scientists will be working on a new comprehensive climate report for Austria. IIASA is taking a leading role in the activities with IIASA researchers Keywan Riahi and Daniel Huppmann serving as co-chairs of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change.

14 Jul 2022

Glaciers in the Andes Mountains and Polar Regions Experience Similar Impact from Climate Change

Glaciers in tropical mountain ranges are experiencing similar impact from the drivers of climate change as those in the polar regions of Antarctica and the Northern Hemisphere, according to a study published today in Nature.

14 Jul 2022

Exponential Power Acquires Elite Technologies & Communications

Exponential Power, Inc. has acquired Elite Technologies & Communications, expanding the company’s position as an industry leading supplier of DC power, products, solutions and services. Elite Technologies & Communications (Elite Tech) specializes in advanced network communications, including central office engineering, DC power installation, transport, access and switching.

From Exponential Power, Inc. 14 Jul 2022

WEG to Launch 7MW Wind Turbine

Global industrial equipment manufacturer, WEG has announced it will launch a new 7 MW wind turbine, provides greater power and efficiency for wind generation projects.

From WEG S.A. 14 Jul 2022

How to Distil the 'Good Oil' from the Sea

To save the world’s fish stocks and oceans, scientists are racing to find better and sustainable ways to make healthy nutritional products such as Omega-3 fatty acids, biodiesel, aquaculture and livestock food from fast-growing microalgae.

14 Jul 2022

On the ‘Elevator to Extinction’: Arctic-alpine Plants Endangered in Scottish Highlands

Rare arctic-alpine plants are being driven higher up Scotland’s mountains by climate change and will soon become extinct if we don’t intervene, new research from the University of Stirling has found.

14 Jul 2022

Research Team Detects High Levels of Microplastic Pollution in the Western Pacific Kuril-Kamchatka Trench

High levels of microplastic pollution have been detected by a research team in the Western Pacific Kuril-Kamchatka Trench.

13 Jul 2022

New Study Outlines the Hydrological Impact of Lithium Mining

A groundbreaking new study recently published in the journal Earth's Future and led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in collaboration with the University of Alaska Anchorage, is the first to comprehensively account for the hydrological impact of lithium mining.

13 Jul 2022

Research Provides a Scientific Basis for Nations to Make Legal Climate Liability Claims

A sound scientific basis exists for climate liability claims between individual countries, according to a Dartmouth study.

13 Jul 2022

Could Naming Heatwaves Help the UK Prepare for Them?

According to the leading researchers, the UK must name heatwaves as part of an efficient early warning system to safeguard the most at risk.

13 Jul 2022

Plankton Likely to Store More Carbon in the Next Century

In the coming century, experts at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Bristol expect that the quantity of carbon stored by tiny plankton will grow.

12 Jul 2022

Climate Change Reveals a Treasure Trove of Information in Melting Ice Patches

One day more than 3000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. The owner probably considered the shoe to be lost for good, but on 17 September 2007 it was found again - virtually intact.

12 Jul 2022