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Ice Core Data Shows Why Air Pollution is Reducing Slower than Sulfur Emissions Reductions

Ice core data obtained from Greenland indicates why air pollution has been decreasing slower compared to reductions in sulfur emissions.

1 Jun 2021

Researchers Develop a Way to Repeatedly Remove and Reuse Phosphate from Polluted Waters

Phosphate pollution in rivers, lakes and other waterways has reached dangerous levels, causing algae blooms that starve fish and aquatic plants of oxygen.

1 Jun 2021

One in Three Heat-Related Deaths Attributable to Human-Induced Global Warming

Between 1991 and 2018, more than a third of all deaths in which heat played a role were attributable to human-induced global warming, according to a new article in Nature Climate Change.

1 Jun 2021

Patterns of Climate Change Drove Early Human Evolution

Headed by Dr Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr from the University of Potsdam, a scientific consortium has discovered that prehistoric El Niño-like weather patterns were mainly responsible for causing the environmental change in the sub-Saharan African region over the past 620 thousand years—the crucial timeframe for human evolution.

1 Jun 2021

Flemish Expertise Centres Join Forces with Industry to Push Green Hydrogen Production Forward

Flemish research centres imec and VITO (partners in EnergyVille), together with industrial pioneers Bekaert, Colruyt Group, DEME and John Cockerill announced today that they are joining forces to invest in the production of green hydrogen. Under the flag of Hyve, the consortium aims at a cost-efficient and sustainable production of hydrogen at gigawatt level.

1 Jun 2021

Harnessing Waste Heat to Achieve Zero Carbon Heating for UK Communities

The University of Nottingham has received £1.3m to develop a novel, low-carbon energy storage system to supply cheap, on-demand heat for people living and working in UK neighbourhoods.

1 Jun 2021

Dual-use Hydrogen Energy Storage Could Put Food Cold Chain on Road to Net Zero

The University of Nottingham is kick-starting a new £1m project to develop dual-use energy storage technology, capable of delivering hydrogen to a fuel cell and generating direct cooling for refrigeration.

1 Jun 2021

Climate Change Makes West Nile Virus Outbreaks More Likely in the UK Within Few Decades

Climate change will make outbreaks of West Nile virus more likely in the UK within the next 20-30 years, scientists say.

31 May 2021

Declining Fish Biodiversity in the Amazon Could Lead to Major Nutritional Shortages

A new study of dozens of wild fish species commonly consumed in the Peruvian Amazon says that people there could suffer major nutritional shortages if ongoing losses in fish biodiversity continue.

31 May 2021

Finding Less Costly Ways to Reach the Paris Agreement

Five researchers shed new light on a key argument to reduce greenhouse gases: they provided the first economic analysis of conversion factors of other GHG like methane into their CO2 equivalent in overshoot scenarios.

31 May 2021

Centuries-Old Smoke Particles Shed New Light on Future Effects of Global Climate Change

Centuries-old smoke particles preserved in the ice reveal a fiery past in the Southern Hemisphere and shed new light on the future impacts of global climate change, according to new research published in Science Advances.

31 May 2021

Novel Technique to Remove Nitrate Residue in Water Cycle Using Rice Straw

Scientists from the MINTOTA research group at the University of Valencia, the DREMAP group at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and the University of Genoa have patented a new technique to eliminate the nitrate residue from the water cycle with the help of rice straw.

31 May 2021