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Deforestation and Climate Change Worsen the Severe Drought Conditions in Brazil

Deforestation for agribusiness expansion in Brazil, in conjunction with climate change, has worsened the already severe drought suffered in the last decade by the transition zone between the eastern Amazon and the Cerrado, the vast tropical savanna ecoregion in central and western Brazil.

7 Mar 2022

NYU Tandon's Sustainable Engineering Initiative Addresses the Interwoven Environmental Challenges

The world and its urban centers are facing existential threats. Confronting them will require solutions for environmental hazards, growing demand for, and equitable distribution of resources, resiliency in the face of our changing climate , and the need to shift to clean energy -; issues complicated by their web of interactions.

7 Mar 2022

Anthropogenic Aerosol Emissions Likely Drive Decadal Weakening of the Summertime Eurasian Westerly Jet

Air pollution increases in South East Asia, combined with pollution cuts in Europe, may have had an important influence on European and Asian weather patterns in recent decades, new research has found.

7 Mar 2022

Researchers Study the Variations in Air Pollution in Europe and Central Asia

According to a new study, air pollution spikes in Southeast Asia, along with pollution reductions in Europe, may have had a significant impact on European and Asian weather patterns in the past few decades.

4 Mar 2022

Review identifies Shortfalls in Engaging Public Health Agency in Climate-Change Adaptation Plans

Climate-change adaptation efforts by governments in large cities around the world have not been enlisting the participation of public health agencies as much as they could, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

4 Mar 2022

Local Public Health Involvement in Climate Adaptation Plans can Make a Difference, Study Finds

A review of 22 large cities' climate adaptation plans finds that while most include meaningful actions to promote public health, fewer cities have involved their public health agencies in these plans. Mary Sheehan of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Climate on March 3.

4 Mar 2022

New Energy-Harvesting Wearable Device Made from Recycled Waste Material

Wearable devices could soon be entirely made of recycled waste materials – and powered by human movement, thanks to a new energy-harvesting device developed at the University of Surrey.

4 Mar 2022

Huawei Debuts Giga Green Site in Spain for Optimal Energy Efficiency and Performance

At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022, Huawei and one of its operator partners jointly announced the commercialization of the world's first Giga Green Site.

From Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 4 Mar 2022

New Report Finds Smarter Way to Make Homes More Energy Efficient

A new approach to measuring heat loss from homes with smart meters will make buildings more energy efficient and cut CO2, say researchers.

4 Mar 2022

Giving New Life to Dead Lithium-ion Batteries

A team of researchers based at Princeton have made steps towards developing a sustainable and economical way to recycle dead Li-ion batteries and make new ones in their place.

By David J. Cross 3 Mar 2022

Great Diversity of Marine Organisms Attach Themselves to Plastics and are Dragged Along by Marine Currents

Recent research headed by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) and the University of Barcelona (UB) reveals how great diversity of marine organisms attach themselves to plastics and are dragged along by marine currents.

3 Mar 2022

Engineers Demonstrate a New Method for Reducing Sulfur Pollution

Someone’s wastewater is just another person’s gold. A new Stanford University study lays the possibility for sewage to be mined for valuable elements used in fertilizers and batteries that could support smartphones and planes in the future.

3 Mar 2022

Environmental Change may have Driven the Formation and Abandonment of Native American Shell Ring Villages

Mollusk shells at 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages indicate that environmental change may have driven the formation and abandonment of these coastal communities, according to a study by Carey Garland and Victor Thompson in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 2, 2022.

3 Mar 2022

Small-Scale, Renewable Energy Generators can Leave the Power Grid More Susceptible to Failure

Renewable energy that feeds into the main power grid could destabilise the system and potentially cause power failures according to a new study.

3 Mar 2022

New Biochar Project may Lead to Reductions in Manure Odors, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Heat up stalks, stems, leaves or wood in a reactor with little or no oxygen (in a process called pyrolysis) and you get bio-oil for fuel and biochar for fertilizer.

3 Mar 2022

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Deforestation and Climate Change Worsen the Severe Drought Conditions in Brazil

NYU Tandon's Sustainable Engineering Initiative Addresses the Interwoven Environmental Challenges

Anthropogenic Aerosol Emissions Likely Drive Decadal Weakening of the Summertime Eurasian Westerly Jet

Researchers Study the Variations in Air Pollution in Europe and Central Asia

Review identifies Shortfalls in Engaging Public Health Agency in Climate-Change Adaptation Plans

Local Public Health Involvement in Climate Adaptation Plans can Make a Difference, Study Finds

New Energy-Harvesting Wearable Device Made from Recycled Waste Material

Huawei Debuts Giga Green Site in Spain for Optimal Energy Efficiency and Performance

New Report Finds Smarter Way to Make Homes More Energy Efficient

Giving New Life to Dead Lithium-ion Batteries

Great Diversity of Marine Organisms Attach Themselves to Plastics and are Dragged Along by Marine Currents

Engineers Demonstrate a New Method for Reducing Sulfur Pollution

Environmental Change may have Driven the Formation and Abandonment of Native American Shell Ring Villages

Small-Scale, Renewable Energy Generators can Leave the Power Grid More Susceptible to Failure

New Biochar Project may Lead to Reductions in Manure Odors, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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