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A New Method to Improve Energy Efficiency of Historic Buildings

How can historic buildings become more energy efficient while conserving their heritage values? A doctoral thesis provides the answer by presenting a new method for combining climate goals and heritage values in historic buildings stocks.

16 Jun 2021

Herring Larvae Study Reveals the Effects of Climate Change on the Baltic Sea Ecosystem

Data collected for over two decades shows that rising Baltic Sea water temperature is one of the main factors in the increasingly earlier appearance and faster growth of Baltic herring larvae.

16 Jun 2021

Artificial Photosynthesis Shows Promise as Sustainable, Clean Energy Source

Human beings can do numerous things that cannot be performed by plants. They can walk around, hear, talk, see and touch. However, plants have one significant advantage over human beings: they can produce energy directly from the sun.

16 Jun 2021

Study Highlights the Negative Effect of Human-Driven Climate Change on Krill Population

Krill populations in the core of their Antarctic habitat are expected to drop by 30% this century as a result of extensive negative impacts of human-induced climate change.

16 Jun 2021

Valio and St1 to Produce Biogas from Manure – a New Opening in Reducing Transport Emissions

Food company Valio and energy company St1 are establishing a joint venture to produce renewable biogas from dairy farm manure and other agricultural by-products mainly as fuel for heavy-duty transport.

From St1 Nordic Oy 16 Jun 2021

Jumeirah Group Celebrates Conservation Efforts on World Sea Turtle Day

Jumeirah Group’s Dubai Turtle Rehabilitation Project released 30 sea turtles back into their natural habitat today, in celebration of World Sea-Turtle Day on 16 June.

16 Jun 2021

Earth Wind & Power: Excess Energy from Wind, Solar and Gas will be Utilized for HPC and Datacenters

With this new practice EWP creates a long-awaited sustainable bridge between the excess power in the energy industry and the power deficiency in the High Performance Computing datacenter industry while maintaining strong ESG-standards.

From Earth Wind & Power 16 Jun 2021

Sri Lanka and IFAD Partner to Reduce Poverty and Increase Food and Nutrition Security in the Face of Climate Change

The International Fund for Agricultural Development together with the Government of Sri Lanka last week signed a financial agreement to launch the Smallholder Agribusiness and Resilience Project.

16 Jun 2021

The Collapse of a Key Antarctic Ice Shelf is Accelerating

New research shows that the ice shelf that forms a buttress against the flow of one of Antarctica’s major ice sheets to the ocean is collapsing at an accelerating rate.

By Robert Lea 15 Jun 2021

Existing Carbon Footprint Standards can Lead to Green Infrastructure

Globally, countries and cities are racing toward carbon neutrality, with some experts already discussing the need to eventually achieve carbon negativity.

15 Jun 2021

Study Sheds Light on Global Vulnerability of Crop Yields to Climate Change

Shifts in weather patterns induced by climate change will increase extreme heat and reduce rainfall across major crop growing regions, with impacts on agricultural production.

15 Jun 2021

Mains to Rains Website Promotes Improved Water Management Practices in Gardening

Researchers at Cranfield University have worked with colleagues at the Royal Horticultural Society to launch a new website aimed at saving water in the garden.

15 Jun 2021

Global Warming Causes Unprecedented Rates of Fires in Rocky Mountain Forests

Last fall, the Mullen fire west of Laramie raged for the better part of two months, burning more than 176,000 acres and 70 structures in Wyoming's Carbon and Albany counties, and in Jackson County, Colo.

15 Jun 2021

Sustainable Water Management can Preserve Biodiversity 'Hotspots' Along California's Streams

A study of woodland ecosystems that provide habitat for rare and endangered species along streams and rivers throughout California reveals that some of these ecologically important areas are inadvertently benefitting from water that humans are diverting for their own needs.

15 Jun 2021

Methane-Eating Microbes in the Ocean Help Regulate Earth's Temperatures

Methane is a strong greenhouse gas that plays a key role in Earth's climate. Anytime we use natural gas, whether we light up our kitchen stove or barbeque, we are using methane.

15 Jun 2021