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COVID-19 Lockdown Reduced Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxide Levels in India

COVID-19 has altered the planet in unfathomable ways. Some results have even been encouraging, with novel vaccines being designed at record speed.

21 Jun 2021

Research Tool Supports Sustainable Development in the Agricultural Sector

IIASA, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the Environmental System Research Institute are proud to announce the launch of version 4 of the Global Agro-Ecological Zones platform - a research tool that supports sustainable development in the agricultural sector - on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.

18 Jun 2021

Rapid Assessment Framework to Facilitate Climate-Informed Conservation and Nature-Based Solutions

A new article, published as a Perspective in the journal Conservation Science and Practice, introduces a rapid assessment framework that can be used as a guide to make conservation and nature-based solutions more robust to future climate.

18 Jun 2021

Sulfur-Based Mechanism of Carbon Storage Could Influence the Chemistry of Oceans in Future

The Black Sea is an unusual body of water: below a depth of 150 metres the dissolved oxygen concentration sinks to around zero, meaning that higher life forms such as plants and animals cannot exist in these areas.

18 Jun 2021

Climate Warming Makes High-Elevation Forests Susceptible to Blazes

Forest fires have crept higher up mountains over the past few decades, scorching areas previously too wet to burn, according to researchers from McGill University.

18 Jun 2021

Reframing Managed Retreat for Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change

In a new analysis on managed retreat--the climate adaptation response of moving people and property out of harm's way--researchers explore what it would take for managed retreat to be supportive of people and their priorities.

18 Jun 2021

Howden Provides Hydrogen Storage Compression Solution for the World’s First Pilot Plant for Fossil-Free Steel

Leading global provider of mission critical air and gas handling products, technologies and services, Howden, has been selected to deliver a hydrogen storage compression solution for HYBRIT, the world’s first fossil-free steel plant, in Svartöberget, Sweden.

18 Jun 2021

Human Health Impact of Marine Plastic Pollution is of Grave Concern to the Public

The impact of marine plastic pollution on human health tops a list of health-related concerns over marine threats in a large scale survey which could help shape policy over how best to protect our oceans.

17 Jun 2021

Geologists Find New Evidence of Drifting Icebergs from Canada to Southern Florida

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution climate modeler Dr. Alan Condron and United States Geological Survey research geologist Dr. Jenna Hill have found evidence that massive icebergs from roughly 31,000 years ago drifted more than 5000 km along the eastern United States coast from Northeast Canada all the way to southern Florida.

17 Jun 2021

Study Explores how Governments Should Offer Energy Efficiency Subsidies

Transitioning to low-carbon energy production is the biggest climate challenge to overcome.

17 Jun 2021

Diesel-Polluted Soil can be Remediated Using Naturally Occurring Soil Bacteria

ENVIRONMENT Diesel-polluted soil from now defunct military outposts in Greenland can be remediated using naturally occurring soil bacteria according to an extensive five-year experiment in Mestersvig, East Greenland, to which the University of Copenhagen has contributed.

17 Jun 2021

Researchers Find Increasing Surface and Tropospheric Ozone Levels in Antarctica

Ozone is a pollutant at ground level, but very high in the atmosphere's "ozone layer," it absorbs damaging ultraviolet radiation.

17 Jun 2021

Accuracy of Climate Predictions Depends on Changes to North Atlantic Ocean Currents

Thirty state-of-the-art IPCC-climate models predict dramatically different climates for the Northern Hemisphere, especially Europe.

17 Jun 2021

Over Half of the World’s Rivers Stop Flowing Periodically for Part of the Year

According to a new study, headed by scientists from the French National Research Institute for Agriculture (INRAE) and McGill University, about 51% to 60% of the 64 million kilometers of streams and rivers on Earth have stopped flowing intermittently or dry up for part of the year.

17 Jun 2021

In-Car Pollution is a Major Cause of Health and Economic Loss in Developing Countries

An international team of air pollution experts, led by the University of Surrey, monitored pollution hotspots in 10 global cities, namely São Paulo (Brazil); Dhaka (Bangladesh); Cairo (Egypt); Medellín (Colombia); Guangzhou (China); Addis Ababa (Ethiopia); Sulaymaniyah (Iraq); Chennai (India); Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania); and Blantyre (Malawi).

17 Jun 2021