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CDU Joins Project to Recycle Bromine and Antimony from Plastics

Charles Darwin University (CDU) is joining with The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) North American Flame Retardant Alliance (NAFRA) and the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in Al Ain to develop new processes for recovering and recycling bromine and antimony from flame-retarded plastics.

8 Dec 2021

Elkem Launches First TCFD Report on Climate Risks and Opportunities

Elkem has on Wednesday 8 December launched its first TCFD report as an initiative to address the potential financial impact of climate risks and opportunities.

From Elkem 8 Dec 2021

Mindful Chef Becomes the First Recipe Box Company to Introduce Carbon Labelling

Mindful Chef is pleased to announce that it has become the first recipe box company to carbon label its recipes, as a new Low Carbon range launched on the menu on 3rd December.

8 Dec 2021

New Data Shows Traffic Pollution Level Rose by Nearly a Third in Glasgow During COP26

New data released today by Aeternum, a provider of low cost, unplugged sensors designed to accurately monitor air quality, finds that levels of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide increased by nearly a third within a mile of COP26 in Glasgow last month.

8 Dec 2021

New Robust Tool for Faster, Economical, Easier Coral Reef Monitoring

Scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), the University of Tokyo, and the Okinawa Prefecture Environment Science Center have engineered a tool that can establish the diversity of hard corals on a reef by examining the DNA in a sample of seawater.

7 Dec 2021

New Type of Induced Earthquake Triggered by Hydraulic Fracturing

A research team from Canada and Germany has identified a novel kind of earthquake signal in the vicinity of injection wells characterized by hybrid-frequency waveforms (EHWs).

By William Alldred 7 Dec 2021

New Material may Pave the Way Toward Delivering More Energy than Existing Battery Technologies

University of Texas at Austin researchers have created a new sodium-based battery material that is highly stable, capable of recharging as quickly as a traditional lithium-ion battery and able to pave the way toward delivering more energy than current battery technologies.

7 Dec 2021

Study Finds Increasing Weather Persistence in European Summer

In our study, we show that persistent weather conditions have an increasing similarity in summer over the North Atlantic, Europe and Siberia, favoring more pronounced extreme weather events.

7 Dec 2021

UNESCO-IPCC-ICOMOS Meeting Focuses on Strengthening Synergies Between Climate Science and Culture

Strengthening synergies between culture and climate science in the common fight against climate change will be at the centre of the first ever meeting organised jointly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) from 6 to 10 December 2021.

7 Dec 2021

Decarbonizing Steel Production: Metso Outotec Launches Next Generation of the 100% Hydrogen-Based Circored Process for Fine Ore Reduction

Finding new solutions to decarbonize the steelmaking value chain is a must for the industry to become fossil-free and to help limit global warming to 1.5 °C.

From Metso Outotec Corporation 7 Dec 2021

Scottishpower Announces Partnership with the AA to Support Drivers in the Transition to Electric Vehicles

The UK’s leading breakdown service, the AA, has partnered with ScottishPower to help more UK drivers make a move to electric vehicles by giving people with ‘range anxiety’ confidence to switch to a zero-emissions vehicle.

7 Dec 2021

High Blood Pressure Could be Due to Long-Term Particulate Matter Pollution

According to the World Health Organization, air pollution is the greatest health hazard globally, causing over 4.2 million deaths per year.

6 Dec 2021

Trees in the Amazon Wetland Areas are a Significant Source of Methane

After reaching the atmosphere, methane causes more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years. While CO2 has a longer-lasting effect, methane sets the pace in the near term. At least 25% of today’s warming is thought to be led by anthropogenic methane production.

By David J. Cross 6 Dec 2021

Existing Models Could be Underestimating the Extent of Methane Emissions in Wetland Areas

Most of the methane gas emitted from Amazon wetlands regions is vented into the atmosphere via tree root systems – with significant emissions occurring even when the ground is not flooded, say researchers at the University of Birmingham.

6 Dec 2021

Acoustically Distinct Pressurized Underwater Bubbles Help Estimate Climate-Induced Glacial Melting

As the world's temperatures rise, tidewater glaciers are receding and melting, releasing air trapped in the ice. Scientists can listen to the release of the air and potentially use the sounds to help them gauge the impact of climate change on the ice floes.

6 Dec 2021