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Novel Network Model Quantifies How Traffic Emissions from One City Affect Another

Huge shifts have been made in the way how people travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In certain regions, such limitations on travel have had little impact on air pollution, and few cities exhibit worse air quality than ever before.

27 Apr 2022

Complex-Network-Based Clustering Workflow to Predict Extreme Rainfall Events

As per the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in February 2022, precipitation extremes are probably to turn out to be more frequent in the majority of the locations.

27 Apr 2022

Study Demonstrates Widespread Increases in the Occurrences of Flash Flooding Events Across Most of the United States

The latest UN report on climate change recorded scientists’ efforts that have revealed some measures of global warming are now unavoidable, and recent research efforts are concentrating on adaptation and mitigation strategies.

27 Apr 2022

Chemistry of Ancient Oak Trees Provides Clues About Past Climate

Researchers will soon be able to reconstruct the climate of north-west Europe including the UK over the last 4500 years, and to date wooden buildings and objects more accurately, by analysing the chemistry of ancient oak trees, through a new Swansea-led project just selected for €3 million in European funding.

27 Apr 2022

Scientists Assess the Role of Future Global Biodiversity Targets for Climate Protection

When the global community is expected to meet for the second part of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, in autumn, it must also adopt the next generation of UN biodiversity targets.

27 Apr 2022

More Metals Needed to Meet EU's Green Deal Goal of Climate Neutrality by 2050

Meeting the European Union's Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth metals compared to Europe's limited use today, according to a study from Belgian university KU Leuven.

26 Apr 2022

LLNL Collaborates with City of Livermore to Build Community-Wide Resilience to Climate Change Impacts

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the City of Livermore to collaborate on advancing climate action in Livermore and build community-wide resilience to climate change impacts.

26 Apr 2022

Study Calls for Strict Regulatory Measure to Reduce Groundwater Extraction

According to a new study, Manila and various other coastal Asian cities are sinking faster compared to the rate of sea-level increase. This study urges the severe regulatory measure to decrease groundwater extraction, determined as a significant cause of land subsidence.

26 Apr 2022

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Developed with Inexpensive Materials to Expand Its Usage

Scientists at Imperial College London have engineered a hydrogen fuel cell that utilizes iron rather than rare and expensive platinum, allowing better application of the technology.

26 Apr 2022

New Research Harnesses the Power of Movement

Harvesting energy from the day-to-day movements of the human body and turning it into useful electrical energy, is the focus of a new piece of research involving a Northumbria University Professor.

26 Apr 2022

Lesser-Known Form of Ozone Plays a Major Role in Heating the Southern Ocean

A lesser-known form of ozone playing a crucial role in heating the Southern Ocean has been determined by a new study. It is known as one of the primary cooling systems of the Earth.

25 Apr 2022

Analysis of Marine Mollusk Shells Reveals Behavior of Prehistoric Humans During Extreme Climate Change

Present-day worldwide climatic warming will continue to have extensive repercussions for human history, just as that environmental variations had a major impact on human populations in the years gone by.

25 Apr 2022

A Wax-Coated Sand Mulch Could Help Decrease Evaporation of Water on Desert Farms

A nature-stimulated wax-coated sand has been developed to help improve the production of food in the desert since freshwater resources are getting depleted.

25 Apr 2022

Xprize Milestone Award for ISU Researchers for their Efforts to Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere

A research group from Iowa State University that helped develop a demonstration-scale pyrolyzer that has the ability to sequester thousands of tons of carbon dioxide annually has received an esteemed milestone award from XPRIZE Carbon Removal, it was declared on Friday.

25 Apr 2022

Vancouver Companies Working Toward Transition to Zero-Emission Vehicles

Three Vancouver companies are accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy by advancing zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) technology with support from the CleanBC Go Electric Advanced Research and Commercialization (ARC) program.

25 Apr 2022