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Study Highlights the Unintended Beneficial Side Effect of Clean Air Act

Removal of pollutants from the air, or atmospheric deposition, is a natural cleaning mechanism. However, the removed toxic matters don't just disappear on the Earth. China's Soil Pollution Survey released in 2014 shows that 19.4% of the Chinese farmland soil was polluted and 82% of pollutant was toxic heavy metals such as cadmium, which can cause chronic health problems.

3 Mar 2021

Open-Ocean Kelp Farms Show Potential for Low-Carbon Biofuel

For several years now, the biofuels that power cars, jet airplanes, ships and big trucks have come primarily from corn and other mass-produced farm crops. Researchers at USC, though, have looked to the ocean for what could be an even better biofuel crop: seaweed.

3 Mar 2021

Reclamation Awards $3.6 Million for Advanced Water Treatment Research

The Bureau of Reclamation is awarding $3.6 million to 10 projects for advanced water treatment research and development. The Desalination and Water Purification Research Program funding seeks to improve technologies for water supply development from nontraditional waters, including seawater, brackish groundwater, and municipal wastewater.

3 Mar 2021

Exploring the Carbon Footprint Associated with Computing

When you think about your carbon footprint, what comes to mind? Driving and flying, probably. Perhaps home energy consumption or those daily Amazon deliveries. But what about watching Netflix or having Zoom meetings? Ever thought about the carbon footprint of the silicon chips inside your phone, smartwatch or the countless other devices inside your home?

3 Mar 2021

Satellite Shows Atmospheric River Storms as Driver of Increased Snowfall

Researchers used NASA’s ice-measuring laser satellite to determine that atmospheric river storms are a main driver of elevated snowfall levels in West Antarctica during the austral winter in 2019.

3 Mar 2021

Green Hydrogen Systems Gears up for the Rising Demand with Brand New Production Facilities

Green Hydrogen Systems (GHS), a leading provider of efficient electrolysers used in on-site production of hydrogen based on renewable energy, has completed its new modern production facility near Kolding, in Denmark.

From Green Hydrogen Systems 3 Mar 2021

Sustainability Agenda Now a Key Priority for Automotive Sector with 75% of OEMs Discussing this Theme in 2020

Sustainability will remain a key strategic agenda for automotive companies in 2021 and beyond, with over 75% of vehicle manufacturers focused on sustainability in 2020, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

3 Mar 2021

Burger King® UK Aims for 0% Single Use Plastic by 2025 as Part of Transparent New Charter

Burger King® UK has set out its road map on sustainability, food quality and ethics in a new charter launched today entitled: Burger King for Good.

3 Mar 2021

Research Will Create New Materials from Recycling’s Waste Products

Heriot-Watt University has joined forces with Brewster Bros, a leading recycling business based in Livingston, to create new materials from the residual waste left over during the recycling process.

3 Mar 2021

Instagram-Trendy Pampas Grass 'Serious Threat to Native Wildlife' in UK, Warns Academic

Councils in England should be discouraged from planting Instagram-friendly pampas grass in coastal areas - because it’s actually a ‘serious threat’ to native wildlife.

3 Mar 2021

Study Explains Which Mountain Snowpacks are Most "At-Risk" from Climate Change

As the planet warms, scientists expect that mountain snowpack should melt progressively earlier in the year. However, observations in the U.S. show that as temperatures have risen, snowpack melt is relatively unaffected in some regions while others can experience snowpack melt a month earlier in the year.

2 Mar 2021

Extreme Rainfall Due to Climate Change in Amazonia Causes Adverse Birth Outcomes

Extreme rainfall associated with climate change is causing harm to babies in some of the most forgotten places on the planet setting in motion a chain of disadvantage down the generations, according to new research in Nature Sustainability.

2 Mar 2021

New Study to Assess the Impact of Global Warming on Siberia's Thawing Permafrost

Northumbria University is to play a leading role in a major study to assess the long-term impact of global warming on Siberia's thawing permafrost.

2 Mar 2021

Tundra Plant Communities Respond Similarly to Microclimate, Study Shows

Researchers are in the search for generalisable rules and patterns in nature. Biogeographer Julia Kemppinen together with her colleagues tested if plant functional traits show similar patterns along microclimatic gradients across far-apart regions from the high-Arctic Svalbard to the sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Kemppinen and her colleagues found surprisingly identical patterns.

2 Mar 2021