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Scientists Show How Arctic Seabirds Connect the World

As the Arctic and the oceans warm due to climate change, understanding how a rapidly changing environment may affect birds making annual journeys between the Arctic and the high seas is vital to international conservation efforts.

22 Dec 2021

Research Explores Factors that Accelerate Mass Extinction in the Fossil Record

The Late Devonian mass extinction (roughly 372 million years ago) was one of five mass extinctions in Earth's history, with roughly 75% of all species disappearing over its course

22 Dec 2021

European Spoonweed Population Provides Insights into How Plants Cope with Climate Change

As cold relics in an increasingly warming world, plants of the spoonweed group time and again quickly adapted to a changing climate during the Ice Ages of the last two million years.

22 Dec 2021

Fugro’s New Environmental Lander Technology Deployed in the Red Sea

Fugro has deployed two new autonomous environmental landers off the coast of Saudi Arabia to collect oceanographic data in deep and remote areas of the Red Sea.

From Fugro 22 Dec 2021

NREL Sets Up Heliostat Consortium to Develop Advanced Heliostat Technology

The Heliostat Consortium (HelioCon), an international initiative to reduce the price of heliostats, has been launched by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories and the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute.

21 Dec 2021

Himalayan Glaciers Melting at ‘Exceptional Rate’ Could Impact Water Supply in Asia

A University of Leeds directed study concludes that during the recent decades the Himalayan glaciers have lost ice ten times more rapidly than on average since the last big glacier expansion 400-700 years ago, a period referred to as the Little Ice Age.

21 Dec 2021

Analysis of Air Bubbles in Antarctic Ice Reveals Cause for Atmospheric Oxygen Decline

An unknown culprit has been removing oxygen from our atmosphere for at least 800,000 years, and an analysis of air bubbles preserved in Antarctic ice for up to 1.5 million years has revealed the likely suspect.

21 Dec 2021

Study Sheds New Light on Extinction of Large Mammals at the End of Ice Age

A new study has shed new light on why large mammals died out at the end of the ice age, suggesting their extinction was caused by a warming climate and expansion of vegetation that created unsuitable habitat for the animals.

21 Dec 2021

Desert Shrubs' Water Use Efficiency may not be Enough to Adapt to Long-Term Drying Trend

Shrubs in the desert Southwest have increased their water use efficiency at some of the highest rates ever observed to cope with a decades-long megadrought.

21 Dec 2021

New Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery can be Woven and Washed

Researchers have developed a rechargeable lithium-ion battery in the form of an ultra-long fiber that could be woven into fabrics.

21 Dec 2021

Study Reveals Differences Between Shoot- and Root Phenology Due to Climate Change

A new synthesis conducted by a group of international scientists including Madhav P. Thakur from the University of Bern reveals mismatches between above- and belowground plant phenology due to climate change.

21 Dec 2021

Researchers Reveal Orbital-Scale Monsoon Variability and Dynamics in the Oligocene High-CO2 World

Researchers from China, the U.K., Netherlands, and Australia have revealed orbital-scale Asian monsoon variability and dynamics under conditions of high atmospheric CO2 concentrations and a warm climate during the late Oligocene.

21 Dec 2021

Crossflow Energy Launches Revolutionary Small Wind Turbine

Crossflow Energy, the renewable energy technology specialist, has launched the Crossflow Wind Turbine. Reliable and easy to install, the unique turbine specifically addresses the issues that have historically inhibited the adoption of small-scale wind.

From Crossflow Energy 21 Dec 2021

New Elkem Project Aims to Eliminate CO2 Emissions from Silicon Production

The Research Council of Norway has granted Elkem NOK 16 million to develop a new concept for silicon production where all direct CO2 emissions are eliminated

From Elkem 21 Dec 2021

Three Full-Scale Trials Announced to Help Boost Farm Waste Digestion

Three full-scale industrial trials have been announced at farm sites in Scotland and the East Midlands aimed at unlocking what has been described as the “enormous potential” of anaerobic digestion in tackling farm waste and climate change, and giving the industry confidence to grow.

20 Dec 2021