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Researchers Explore Why Glacial Cycles Intensified a Million Years Ago

Something big happened to the planet about a million years ago. There was a major shift in the response of Earth's climate system to variations in our orbit around the Sun.

9 Nov 2021

Study Offers a "Scorecard" for Climate Adaptation Projects

A new study, co-authored by researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Forestry, offers a "scorecard" for climate adaptation projects – a set of 16 criteria that can be used to evaluate climate adaptation projects and inform their design.

9 Nov 2021

New Study Measures Tropopause Expansion Due to Warming Temperatures

A new international study states that climate change is progressively affecting the structure of Earth’s atmosphere.

9 Nov 2021

Students Shape Solutions to Net Zero at ‘Schools COP’

Revolutionary engineering ideas proposed by secondary school students will be debated in classrooms across the UK as part of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week (8 to12 November 2021).

9 Nov 2021

European Science Academies at COP26: Curbing Motorised Transport is an Option that Urgently Must be Put on the Table

Digitalisation, improved batteries and new renewable fuels can be gamechangers for decarbonising transport.

9 Nov 2021

Research Collaboration to Reduce Environmental Impact of Textile Dyeing

Dyeing is one of the most polluting and energy intensive processes in textile manufacturing.

9 Nov 2021

Climate Smart Engineering Conference Nov 16 – 17

Former US Vice President and global environmentalist Al Gore will headline the Engineers Australia Climate Smart Engineering (CSE) 2021 conference, which will be held virtually on November 16 – 17.

9 Nov 2021

EEW Becomes Sweden's Largest Solar PV Developer

EEW, a leading developer of utility-scale solar energy projects, announces it now has 290 MW of solar power projects at the advanced development stage in Sweden, making it the country's largest solar power developer.

From Eco Energy World 9 Nov 2021

Degraded Landscapes can be Restored if Secondary Forests Surround Lakes

According to a recent study by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) postdoctoral fellow Karina Chavarria and colleagues, bacterial communities in streams neighboring young secondary forests recover to look like those of mature forest streams in as little as 10 years after cattle has been moved away from the land, and that these communities are resilient during the course of the year.

8 Nov 2021

Wind and Solar Power can Meet Most of the Electricity Demand in Industrialized Nations

With the eyes of the world on the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, strategies for decarbonizing energy infrastructure are a trending topic. Yet critics of renewables question the dependability of systems that rely on intermittent resources. A recent study led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine tackles the reliability question head-on.

8 Nov 2021

Sustainable Photovoltaic Solar Device Uses 95.06% of the Energy Available to Produce Domestic Hot Water

A research team at the University of Córdoba has designed a sustainable photovoltaic solar device that can heat water up to 80 degrees - just like a regular electric heater

8 Nov 2021

IPCC Vice Chair Welcomes New Recommendations for Communicating Climate Change

As the world keenly watches for progress at the UN climate conference, the foremost scientific authority on climate change has emphasised the critical importance of communicating science effectively.

8 Nov 2021

Study Finds Human-Induced Climate Change as the Main Cause for Increasing Wildfires

Research by scientists from UCLA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory strengthens the case that climate change has been the main cause of the growing amount of land in the western U.S. that has been destroyed by large wildfires over the past two decades.

8 Nov 2021

African Sahelian Farmers Use Crop Diversity to Adapt to Climate Change

Farming communities in the African Sahel have adapted their crops to the high seasonal variability and rising temperatures caused by climate change over this past century.

8 Nov 2021

MIT and Biogen Collaborate to Accelerate the Action on Climate Change to Improve Human Health

MIT and Biogen have announced that they will collaborate with the goal to accelerate the science and action on climate change to improve human health.

8 Nov 2021