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Fossil CO2 Emission Cuts Need to Increase Tenfold to Meet Paris Agreement Climate Targets

New research shows 64 countries cut their fossil CO2 emissions during 2016-2019, but the rate of reduction needs to increase tenfold to meet the Paris Agreement aims to tackle climate change.

4 Mar 2021

Study Links Climatic Fluctuations Over the Past Century with Flower Color Changes

Clemson University scientists have linked climatic fluctuations over the past one and a quarter-century with flower color changes.

4 Mar 2021

Rising Temperatures Likely to Intensify Rainfall Extremes and Increase Short Thunderstorms

Climate experts have revealed that rising temperatures will intensify future rainfall extremes at a much greater rate than average rainfall, with largest increases to short thunderstorms.

4 Mar 2021

Understanding the Diet of Endangered Killer Whales can Help Focus on Recovery Efforts

Endangered Southern Resident killer whales prey on a diversity of Chinook and other salmon. The stocks come from an enormous geographic range as far north as Alaska and as far south as California's Central Valley, a new analysis shows.

4 Mar 2021

Study may Help with Management of Dolphin-Fishery Interactions in the Future

While consumers look out for the Dolphin Safe mark on seafood purchases, a major research stocktake of Australian-New Zealand waters gives new guidelines to managers of dolphin fisheries.

4 Mar 2021

New Center at Yale Focuses on Developing Natural Climate Change Solutions

A $100 million gift from FedEx will help fund a new center at Yale University focused on developing natural solutions for reducing atmospheric carbon. The Center for Natural Carbon Capture will support and accelerate applied research across academic disciplines, helping to establish a more sustainable and healthier future for our planet.

4 Mar 2021

Small-Scale Fisheries Reveal Valuable Approaches for Adaptability, Resilience to Climate Change

Coastal communities at the forefront of climate change reveal valuable approaches to foster adaptability and resilience, according to a worldwide analysis of small-scale fisheries by Stanford University researchers.

4 Mar 2021

Pesticide Residues can Negatively Affect Organic Farms for Decades

Although the use of pesticides in agriculture is increasing, some farms have transitioned to organic practices and avoid applying them. But it's uncertain whether chemicals applied to land decades ago can continue to influence the soil's health after switching to organic management.

4 Mar 2021

Global Ecosystem Respiration Varies in Response to Increasing Temperatures

Land stores vast amounts of carbon, but a new study led by Cranfield University's Dr Alice Johnston suggests that how much of this carbon enters the atmosphere as temperatures rise depends on how far that land sits from the equator.

4 Mar 2021

Slight Increase in Warming Levels Could Significantly Increase Likelihood of Wildfires

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 2.0 °C and, ideally, to 1.5 °C, over preindustrial levels. However, even before that treaty was signed, scientists had already warned that those "best case" targets were unlikely to be achievable. Consequently, many fire weather studies are built with models that simulate much higher levels of climate warming.

4 Mar 2021

Climate Models May Overestimate Energy and Emission Savings

According to a new study, headed by researchers from the University of Sussex Business School and the University of Leeds, the models used for creating global climate scenarios may overestimate the emission and energy savings realized from enhanced energy efficiency.

4 Mar 2021

Dolphin Populations At-Risk Trans-Tasman Study Calls for Greater Collaboration

While consumers look out for the Dolphin Safe mark on seafood purchases, a major research stocktake of Australian-New Zealand waters gives new guidelines to managers of dolphin fisheries.

4 Mar 2021

BW Group and Miros Launch Fuel-Saving, Emissions-Reducing Joint Venture

BW Group and Miros are launching Miros Mocean, a joint venture to provide the shipping industry with a new standard in vessel performance optimisation.

From BW Group 4 Mar 2021

PayByPhone Welcomes New Government Green Number Plate Scheme

With almost three times as many battery-powered cars registered in the first three months of 2020 than in the same period of 2019, the introduction of green number plates for electric vehicles in January 2021, couldn’t have been more timely. The number plates make electric vehicles more easily identifiable as zero emission vehicles, helping local authorities design policies to incentivise people to drive electric. The scheme is part of a wider government initiative to make UK roads greener and aligns with the announcement of 2030 as the new fast-tracked milestone for the end of sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans.

4 Mar 2021

Model Predicts Transition Paths of Marine Debris into Ocean Garbage Patches

Tons of plastic debris get released into the ocean every day, and most of it accumulates within the middle of garbage patches, which tend to float on the oceans' surface in the center of each of their regions. The most infamous one, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is in the North Pacific Ocean.

3 Mar 2021