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Thermal Energy Storage the Key to Reducing Agricultural Food Pollution

UniSA thermal energy researcher Professor Frank Bruno has been awarded almost $1 million by the Federal Government to find a solution to agricultural pollution in Australia and India.

11 Dec 2020

Amazon Becomes World’s Largest Corporate Purchaser of Renewable Energy, Advancing its Climate Pledge Commitment to be Net-zero Carbon by 2040

Amazon today announced 26 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects totaling 3.4 gigawatts (GW) of electricity production capacity, bringing its total investment in renewable energy in 2020 to 35 projects and more than 4 GW of capacity — the largest corporate investment in renewable energy in a single year. These new projects will make Amazon the largest-ever corporate purchaser of renewable energy.

11 Dec 2020

Norway Launches Major Wind Power Research Centre

Today the Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Tina Bru, announced an investment of 120 million NOK (11.3 million EUR) in a new wind power research centre in Norway.

11 Dec 2020

Renewables Still the Cheapest New-Build Power in Australia

A new report from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has more accurately calculated the integration costs of renewables in electricity generation and found that solar and wind continue to be the cheapest source of energy in Australia.

11 Dec 2020

Engineering Firm Gears Up Waste Management Wake Up in the UK

A leading UK engineering firm has its sights firmly set on transforming the nation’s approach to waste management in 2021.

11 Dec 2020

Interaction Between Plastic Mulch and Pesticides Leads to an Environmental Problem

The use of plastic mulch (plastic covering on crop lines) is a widespread technique used in agricultural regions in order to increase the profitability of the crops. According to the European Commission, 100,000 tonnes of plastic mulch was used per year in the European Union in 2016.

10 Dec 2020

Nature Conservation Practices Need to More Dynamic to Weather the Impacts of Climate Change

In a hard-hitting new paper leading ecologists and climate change specialists argue that current nature conservation practices are not sufficiently flexible and dynamic to weather the impacts of climate change.

10 Dec 2020

New Research to Assess the Impacts of Climate Change on Population Dynamics

The European Research Council (ERC) will fund groundbreaking research led by IIASA World Population Program Deputy Director Raya Muttarak, which will comprehensively address the impacts of climate change on population dynamics.

10 Dec 2020

Coral Recovery Following Prolonged Heatwaves

Biologists from the University of Victoria have identified how a few coral species have been able to survive a worldwide unprecedented heatwave, as part of the first study to offer new hope for the long-term persistence of coral reefs in the face of climate change.

By Robert Lea 10 Dec 2020

Rambo Root' can Help Countries Tackle Key Environmental and Sustainable Development Concerns

In an article published in Conservation Science and Practice, scientists highlight an overlooked but science-backed and nature-based solution to help countries tackle key environmental and sustainable development concerns.

10 Dec 2020

Novel System to Treat Water Using Direct Solar Steam Generation

Across the world, a huge number of people are currently affected due to the lack of fresh drinking water, particularly in remote rural regions, leading to considerable risk to human life and society.

10 Dec 2020

Westerly Winds Could Intensify, Migrate Poleward with Climate Change

The most high-resolution past record of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds has now been developed by polar climate scientists.

10 Dec 2020

New Technology can Remove Harmful Pollutants from Drinking Water

There is no life without drinkable water. But despite this scary fact, almost 1.1 billion people across the world do not have access to freshwater, while another 2.4 billion individuals suffer from diseases caused by unclean drinking water.

10 Dec 2020

Unilever, Microsoft, Brooks, Neste, and ITV are Among 13 More Companies to Join The Climate Pledge

Today, Amazon and Global Optimism announced that 13 new signatories—Atos, Brooks, Canary Wharf Group, Coca-Cola European Partners, ERM, Groupe SEB France, Harbour Air, ITV, Microsoft, Neste, Rubicon, Unilever,...

10 Dec 2020

ORE Catapult and the Workboat Association to Consider Key Areas for Technology Innovation

The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the Workboat Association (WA) have been selected by UK Government to develop a Technology Roadmap, outlining a route to the decarbonisation of North Sea offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) vessels.

10 Dec 2020