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Biofuture Platform Launches Five Principles for Post-COVID Bioeconomy Recovery and Acceleration

The Biofuture Platform, a twenty-country, multi-stakeholder initiative, announced today the launch of a set of voluntary principles. These are intended to offer guidance to governments and policymakers around the world...

12 Aug 2020

MIT Researchers and Wyoming Representatives Discuss Ways to Strengthen Climate-Friendly Energy Economy

The State of Wyoming supplies 40 percent of the country's coal used to power electric grids.

12 Aug 2020

Seasonal Rainfall Expected to Increase in East Africa Due to Climate Change

According to research led by The University of Texas at Austin, seasonal rainfall is expected to rise significantly in East Africa over the next few decades in response to increased greenhouse gases.

12 Aug 2020

High Concentrations of Microplastics can Impact the Marine Food Web

Tiny plastic particles measure around 0.1 mm in length, the same size as that of phytoplankton, which happens to be the favorite food of the copepods.

12 Aug 2020

How Much Carbon Will You Pledge to Save this National Science Week?

Put on a jumper when you’re cold, cut your shower time, eat roo or fish instead of beef, cycle instead of driving. These are some of the small changes that you, your household or your school can adopt to reduce your carbon footprint.

12 Aug 2020

Social Protection Programs to Alleviate Hunger are Shaping the Success of Environmental Targets

Social protection programs can facilitate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals but can also create trade-offs across divergent social and environmental goals that can undermine their effectiveness, say the authors of new research published in the journal PNAS.

11 Aug 2020

Indigenous Property Rights can Reduce Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest

One way to cut back on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest - and help in the global fight against climate change - is to grant more of Brazil's indigenous communities full property rights to tribal lands.

11 Aug 2020

Discovery Provides Better Understanding of Hydrogen Depletion at the Seafloor

The discovery of hydrothermal vents - where volcanoes at the seafloor produce hot fluid exceeding 350 degrees Celsius, or 662 degrees Fahrenheit, fundamentally changed our understanding about Earth and life in the 1970s.

11 Aug 2020

Heritage Sites Could Transform to Adapt to Changing Climate

How much effort should be spent trying to keep Venice looking like Venice - even as it faces rising sea levels that threaten the city with more frequent extreme flooding?

11 Aug 2020

Seasonal Snowpack Reductions may Negatively Influence Forest Growth in Drier Climates

A new study suggests that future reductions in seasonal snowpack as a result of climate change may negatively influence forest growth in semi-arid climates, but less so in wetter climates.

11 Aug 2020

Intensified Rainstorms Due to Warming Climate Could Reduce Heat Damage to Crops

Intensified rainstorms predicted for many parts of the United States as a result of warming climate may have a modest silver lining: they could more efficiently water some major crops, and this would at least partially offset the far larger projected yield declines caused by the rising heat itself.

11 Aug 2020