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80% of Oil Workers Considering Career Impacts of Climate Change

Eight in ten Scots oil workers have considered that their careers could be impacted by actions being taken to tackle climate change, new research suggests.

25 Aug 2020

Lumen Freedom Announces the Supply of Their First Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging (WEVC) System, for McLaren’s Ultimate Series Hyper-GT, the Speedtail

Lumen Freedom, a world leading manufacturer of Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging (WEVC) systems, today announce the supply of their first Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging system, to McLaren Automotive for the Speedtail Hyper-GT, as featured by the McLaren Tech Club.

25 Aug 2020

Thousands Pledge to Tackle Global Warming Through Individual Actions

More than 11,000 people have signed up to Carbon Counter, the countrywide challenge produced by the ABC Science Unit for National Science Week.

25 Aug 2020

Mitsubishi Licenses Hybrid Technology Patents from Paice, Abell Foundation

Paice, a pioneer in hybrid electric vehicle technology, announced today that it has reached an agreement to license its patented hybrid technology to MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION, a global leader in plug-in hybrid vehicles. The Mitsubishi Outlander is the world's best-selling plug-in hybrid.

From Paice LLC 25 Aug 2020

Study Shows Connnection Between Southeast Asia Megadrought and Drying in Africa

Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between the end of the Green Sahara, when once heavily vegetated Northern Africa became a hyper-arid landscape, and a previously unknown megadrought that crippled Southeast Asia 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.

24 Aug 2020

New Recommendations for Promoting More Sustainable Food Consumption

Germany's Scientific Advisory Board for Agricultural Policy, Food and Consumer Health Protection, an interdisciplinary body that advises the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture on a voluntary basis about policy development, today presents its new report "Promoting more sustainable food consumption: Developing an integrated food policy and creating fair food environments" to Federal Minister Julia Klöckner in Bonn.

24 Aug 2020

Understanding How Birds Adapt to Climate Extremes can Guide Conservation Efforts

When it comes to climate change, University of Wisconsin¬-Madison forest and wildlife ecology Professor Ben Zuckerberg says birds are the proverbial canary in the coal mine.

24 Aug 2020

Nutrients Worsen the Devastating Effects of Climate Change on Corals

A new study shows nutrients can aggravate the already negative effects of climate change on corals to trigger mass coral bleaching.

24 Aug 2020

Moorings Illuminate Cause for Arctic Ocean's Winter Ice Loss

The eastern Arctic Ocean's winter ice grew less than half as much as normal during the past decade, due to the growing influence of heat from the ocean's interior, researchers have found.

24 Aug 2020

Scientists Record Increased Ozone Levels Across Northern Hemisphere

Scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) have discovered, for the first time, that the levels of the pollutant ozone have increased in many parts of the Earth’s atmosphere over the Northern Hemisphere in the past two decades.

24 Aug 2020

Reduction in Public Plant Breeding Programs Affects Food Security

The majority of today's plant-based food is a product of plant breeding.

21 Aug 2020

23-Million-Year-Old Leaf Shows Link Between High Atmospheric Carbon and 'Global Greening'

Scientists studying leaves from a 23-million-year-old forest have for the first time linked high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide with increased plant growth, and the hot climate off the time.

21 Aug 2020

Sea Level Variability May Increase with Warming Climate

A team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology identified a global tendency for future sea levels to become more variable as oceans warm this century due to increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

21 Aug 2020

Two New Projects Win $900,000 to Advance Technologies that Avoid CO2 Emissions

The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Center, one of the MIT Energy Initiative's Low-Carbon Energy Centers, has awarded $900,000 in funding to two new research projects to advance technologies that avoid carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere and help address climate change.

21 Aug 2020

Greenland Ice Sheet Records Greatest Losses in 2019

The Greenland Ice Sheet recorded a new record loss of mass in 2019. This was the finding of a team of international researchers after evaluating data from satellite observations and modelling data.

21 Aug 2020