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Volatile Organic Compounds from Thawing Permafrost Have Implications on Arctic Climate

Biological activity in previously frozen ground is enabled by permafrost, which causes a potential release of gases relevant to climate.

27 Aug 2018

EU Renewable-Energy Policy Changes Chip Away at Forestry Protections

Legislative revisions to the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED) will erode existing safeguards that prevent unsustainable exploitation of forests. The revisions also set incentives that inevitably encourage the burning of unsustainable wood biomass for heating and electricity generation.

24 Aug 2018

Study Shows Air Pollution Shortens Lifespan

Human lives are shortened by more than a year due to air pollution, according to a new research

24 Aug 2018

Study Shows Air Pollution Causes Cardiovascular Diseases

Air pollution accounts for over four million deaths every year. Nearly 60% of deaths occur due to cardiovascular diseases.

24 Aug 2018

Solar Carpark, Rooftops to Generate 20% of Flinders’ Electricity

One of Adelaide’s largest solar arrays will soon provide one fifth of the electricity needed to power Flinders University’s Bedford Park campus – and set the scene for the introduction of autonomous campus shuttles run on renewable energy.

23 Aug 2018

New Technique to Better Predict How Plants in Cold Regions React to Global Warming

Scientists have formulated a method that may provide a more accurate representation of Arctic vegetation & Earth’s climate’s recent past.

23 Aug 2018

Spiralling Energy Costs and Climate Change Spur Major Revision of International Standard for Energy Performance

Organizations large and small are facing pressure to cut their energy use, with demands from governments, regulatory bodies, and consumers increasingly necessitating that every organization has in place an energy management policy.

22 Aug 2018

Scotrenewables Tidal Clocks Record Level of Power Generation

Scotrenewables Tidal Power has set another record with its first 2MW floating tidal stream turbine with the unit clocking up over 3GWh of renewable electricity in its first year of testing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland.

22 Aug 2018

Turning Coffee Waste into Coffee Cups

A Macquarie PhD student believes he’s come up with a way to turn coffee waste into biodegradable plastic coffee cups.

22 Aug 2018

Innovative New Platform to Revolutionise Environmental Monitoring

Hanwell Solutions Ltd, the UK’s leading manufacturer of wireless environmental monitoring solutions, has launched a new, state of the art software platform that will revolutionise access to real-time data and reporting capabilities any time, anywhere, across the world.

From Hanwell Solutions Ltd 22 Aug 2018