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Money Matters: Socioeconomic Factors Influence Land and Seafloor Pollution

A study published today used large-scale citizen science data sets to show that socioeconomic factors like wealth and infrastructure combine with geography to influence what, where, and how much pollution is found on land, along waterways and on the seafloor.

17 Sep 2021

Offshore Wind Industry Publishes Route Map on Repurposing of Oil and Gas Infrastructure for Hydrogen

A new Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council report has today been launched to support industry planning for repurposing of oil and gas infrastructure for green and blue hydrogen production in the UK Continental Shelf.

17 Sep 2021

Gamechanger for Clean Hydrogen Production, Curtin Research Finds

Curtin University research has identified a new, cheaper and more efficient electrocatalyst to make green hydrogen from water that could one day open new avenues for large-scale clean energy production.

17 Sep 2021

Maritime Decarbonisation to Cruise Forward in Orkney

Orkney is to be the setting for an ambitious seven-month project demonstrating technologies to enable maritime decarbonisation.

17 Sep 2021

Natural Decadal Fluctuations can Accelerate or Reverse Ocean Acidification in the Gulf of Alaska

New research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks shows that the fluctuations of major wind and ocean circulation systems can temporarily accelerate or reverse the rate of ocean acidification in the Gulf of Alaska.

16 Sep 2021

Study Reveals the Additional Ecosystem Service Provided by Seagrass Meadows

It has been known for some time that seagrass meadows absorb nutrients and are thus able to prevent over-fertilization and algal blooms. In addition, their important role as a marine carbon sink is also increasingly being recognized, which means they can minimise the greenhouse effect.

16 Sep 2021

U.S. and EU Poised For a 30% Reduction in Methane Emissions by 2030

The United States and European Union are poised to seek the support of other critical greenhouse gas emitting nations for a new Global Methane Pledge designed to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030.

16 Sep 2021

New 2D Semiconductors Could Pave the Way for High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Electronics

According to researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), a recently discovered family of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors could pave the way for high-performance and energy-efficient electronics.

16 Sep 2021

New Conjugated Polymer can Improve the Performance of Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have synthesized a new conjugated polymer for organic electronics using two different chemical reactions and shown the impact of the two methods on its performance in organic and perovskite solar cells.

16 Sep 2021

Massive Algal Blooms Triggered Following the 2019 and 2020 Australian Wildfires

According to an international team of researchers led by Duke University, the Australian wildfires of 2019 and 2020 caused clouds of smoke and ash that triggered extensive algal blooms in the Southern Ocean thousands of miles downwind to the east.

16 Sep 2021

Novel Idea to Repurpose Water, CO2 from Vehicle Exhaust for Use in Food Production

Researchers have been investigating the possibility of capturing and using water and carbon dioxide (CO2) produced from a vehicles’ exhaust system to grow food.

15 Sep 2021

Better Analysis Tools Needed to Help Policymakers Tackle the Systemic Climate Crisis

Policymakers need better analysis tools to help them tackle the systemic climate crisis, experts say.

15 Sep 2021

Chemist Wins 2021 Paderborn University Research Prize for Developing Desalination Batteries

Water is probably the most important resource in the world. We need it in industry, in agriculture, to survive – provided it is clean water, of course.

15 Sep 2021

Climate Change may Have a Large Impact on Ecosystems in Polar Regions

Many species will become extinct as a consequence of global warming. This is the prediction of a mathematical model developed at Linköping University, Sweden, presented in Nature Communications.

15 Sep 2021

Climate Change may Make Wood Frogs Less Resilient to Salt Pollution

Climate change may erode frogs' ability to withstand road salt pollution, according to researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

15 Sep 2021