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Study Shows Rise in Potentially Damaging Surface Ozone Levels in Lockdown

Less traffic on the roads during the first lockdown led to a reduction in air pollution but may have caused potentially damaging surface ozone levels to rise, a new study has revealed.

21 Dec 2020

Land Ecosystems are Becoming Less Reliable in Climate Change Mitigation

Land ecosystems currently play a key role in mitigating climate change. The more carbon dioxide (CO2) plants and trees absorb during photosynthesis, the process they use to make food, the less CO2 remains trapped in the atmosphere where it can cause temperatures to rise.

21 Dec 2020

New Tool can Help Predict Where to Reforest After Megafires

In the aftermath of megafires that devastated forests of the western United States, attention turns to whether forests will regenerate on their own or not. Forest managers can now look to a newly enhanced, predictive mapping tool to learn where forests are likely to regenerate on their own and where replanting efforts may be beneficial.

21 Dec 2020

Study Indicates Sea-Level Rise Could be Higher than Predicted

According to a new report, if climate change is not challenged, sea levels may rise higher than present estimates by 2100.

21 Dec 2020

Ammonia Fuel Cells for Deep-Sea Shipping a Key Piece in the Zero-Emission Puzzle

Interest in ammonia-powered fuel cells for the maritime sector is growing, but stakeholders have been hesitant to commit to investments in large-scale systems. Now the ShipFC project, granted funding from EU’s Research and Innovation program Horizon 2020 under its Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), is aiming to secure a place for ammonia in the future of deep-sea shipping.

21 Dec 2020

Discovery Enables Biological Synthesis of High-Yield Green Fuels

Using an unusual, light-dependent enzyme and a newly discovered enzymatic mechanism, researchers from Aarhus University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have enabled the biological synthesis of high-yield industry relevant production of climate neutral drop-in fuels from biowaste.

18 Dec 2020

Green Revolution Substantially Reduced Infant Mortality

New research from the University of California San Diego shows that since modern crop varieties were introduced in the developing world starting in 1961, they have substantially reduced infant mortality, especially for male babies and among poor households.

18 Dec 2020

New Microbial Fuel Cell System Effectively Purifies Wastewater

Scientists from Washington State University (WSU) have designed a sustainable wastewater treatment system that depends on electron-producing bacterial communities to purify the water.

18 Dec 2020

Researchers Dive into the Biogeochemistry of Oxygen-Deficient Oceans

With no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, ocean anoxic zones are areas where only microbes suited to the environment can live.

18 Dec 2020

Improving Multi-Sectoral Ocean Management To Achieve The Sustainable Development Goals

They have shown that certain multi-sectoral mechanisms, such as marine protected areas, are the most effective in reconciling the ecological, economic and social dimensions of this SDG. These results were published in the journal Nature Sustainability on 14 December 2020, and will make it possible to improve operational guidelines for the preservation of the oceans.

18 Dec 2020

Climate Change Causes Change in Global Precipitation Patterns

The Earth's climate system is largely determined by the differences in temperature between the tropics and the poles. Global warming is likely to cause global atmospheric circulation to change and progressively revert to a situation similar to that of 5,000 to 10,000 years ago.

18 Dec 2020

Grape Varieties in Dry Regions Exhibit Traits to Cope with Climate Change

Several grape-cultivating regions across the globe are expected to become too hot and dry to produce high-quality wine from conventional varieties due to the effect of climate change.

18 Dec 2020

Climate Change Could Affect Ecological Balance in Higher Altitudes

Planet Earth is getting warmer by the day, making several organisms native to lower elevations or latitudes to move higher.

18 Dec 2020

Volvo Group Begin Customer Deliveries of All-Electric Products

Launching a new generation of zero exhaust emissions products, leading French contractor Eiffage has taken delivery of an all-electric Volvo FE Electric truck and a Volvo ECR25 Electric compact excavator – becoming the first recipient of the products in France.

17 Dec 2020

BESA welcomes historic air quality verdict

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has welcomed today’s ruling at Southwark Coroner's Court that air pollution directly contributed to the death of a nine-year-old girl.

17 Dec 2020