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Improved Financial Transparency Leads to Reductions in Carbon Emissions

Countries that sign up to improved financial transparency over oil, gas, and mining revenues benefit from significant reductions in carbon emissions, a new study by the University of Sussex Business School reveals.

15 Oct 2020

Organic Compounds Emitted into the Air from Thawing Arctic Permafrost

When permafrost thaws due to global warming, not only the greenhouse gases known to all, but also organic compounds are released from the soil. They may have a significant impact on climate change.

15 Oct 2020

Katapult Ocean Selects Cleantech Company with NASA-Developed Green Remediation Technology for Investment

94% of U.S. rivers sampled by the U.S. EPA contained Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Persistent Organic Pollutants.

15 Oct 2020

Study Reveals Factors Responsible for 2019 Severe Drought in East China

Drought usually originates from a deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time and is identified as one of the extreme aspects of the hydrological cycle.

15 Oct 2020

New Land Surface Model to Explore the Impacts of Climate Change on Global River Water

Climate change and human activities, including heat emission, nitrogen emission, and water management are altering the hydrothermal condition and N transport in the soil and river systems, thereby affecting the global nitrogen cycle and water environment.

15 Oct 2020

Protecting World's Ecosystems in Priority Areas Could Reduce Carbon Emissions

Returning specific ecosystems in all continents worldwide that have been replaced by farming to their natural state would rescue the majority of land-based species of mammals, amphibians and birds under threat of dying out while soaking up more than 465 billion tons of carbon dioxide, reveals a new report released today.

15 Oct 2020

Singaporean Start-Up with Plastic Waste Recycling Solution Emerged as Champion of ideasinc 2020

Magorium - a Singaporean start-up seeking to disrupt the construction industry with an innovative plastic waste recycling solution - emerged as the champion of ideasinc 2020, the nationwide start-up challenge helmed by NTUitive, the innovation and enterprise company of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

15 Oct 2020

Single-Use Plastic Bags Have Lower Environmental Footprint in Cities Like Singapore

A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has modeled the cradle-to-grave environmental effect of using various types of shopping bags.

15 Oct 2020

COVID-19’s Effect on Global Emissions—Biggest Decline in CO2

The Corona pandemic continues to endanger millions of lives globally, but the first half of 2020 witnessed an extraordinary decline in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions—higher than during the 2008 financial crisis, the 1979 oil crisis, or even World War II.

15 Oct 2020

Study Reveals Flaw in Darwin's Theory About Coral Reef Atolls

Marine geologist and oceanographer André Droxler knows Charles Darwin's theory about atolls is incorrect.

14 Oct 2020

Study Estimates Biomass from Oceanic Plastic Debris

Trillions of plastic debris fragments are afloat at sea, creating the "perfect storm" for microbial colonization.

14 Oct 2020

Video Footage Reveals Environmental Impacts of Pot Fishing

The global pot fishing industry could be having a greater impact on corals, sponges and other species found on the seabed than previously thought, according to new research.

14 Oct 2020

Australians Do Not Connect Climate-Related Actions with Great Barrier Reef Protection

Many Australians do not know what they can individually do to make a difference to the health of the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, according to a survey led by QUT researchers.

14 Oct 2020

New Data Set Could Help Study the Climate Impacts on Health, Agriculture

A seemingly small one-to-two degree change in the global climate can dramatically alter weather-related hazards.

14 Oct 2020

Study Reveals Rise in Atmospheric Dust Levels Across the Great Plains

Got any spaces left on that 2020 bingo card? Pencil in "another Dust Bowl in the Great Plains." A study from University of Utah researchers and their colleagues finds that atmospheric dust levels are rising across the Great Plains at a rate of up to 5% per year.

14 Oct 2020