Tag: Climate Change

A new modelling study from the University of Oxford and collaborators has estimated how changing the reflectivity of roofs can ...

Large Antarctic Ice Shelf, home to a UK research station, is about to break apart

A large section of the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which is home to the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research ...

Warnings up in Western Australia as Suomi NPP satellite views Tropical Cyclone 23S

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Tropical Cyclone 23S has developed north of the ...

32 million funding boost for Smart Cities research in Tallinn and Helsinki

Smart Cities Centre of Excellence to be establishedCredit: Mikko Raskinen Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) and Aalto University, along with ...

Durability vs. recyclability: Dueling goals in making electronics more sustainable

April 4, 2019

Credit: John Toon The falling cost of solar power has led to a boom in recent years, with more and ...

Ecological Society of America announces 2019 Fellows

April 4, 2019

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce its 2019 Fellows. The Society's fellowship program recognizes the many ...

Join URI students on R/V Endeavor oceanographic research expedition, Earth Day April 22

Inner Space Center to broadcast ENDEAVOR LIVE!Credit: Inner Space Center KINGSTON, R.I., April 3, 2019 -- Students from the University ...

‘Cool Coalition’ comes together to save lives, energy and trillions for the global economy

Emissions from cooling sector set to grow 90 percent by 2050 without actionCredit: PXHERE public domain Copenhagen, Denmark - As ...

study looks to iron from microbes for climate help

Research examines remediation potential of releasing iron powder into the atmosphereCredit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Distributing iron particles produced ...

Highly economical LED street lights tested in practice

Special interconnection of many LEDs -- implementation in series under way -- far reduced costs of public lightingCredit: Photo: Tanja ...

App enables smallholder farmers to be community influencers and citizen scientists

The GeoFarmer app allows community workers and smallholders to easily collect and share information on climate-related agricultural interventions. Development agencies ...

The number of people affected by food crises remains at alarming levels

More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance in 2018, ...

Machine learning for measuring roots

Credit: CRAG Researchers from the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) and La Salle-Ramon Llull University, both in Barcelona, ...

Researchers tap rare pristine air to reveal pollution’s impact

Credit: Video courtesy of PNNL Five years ago, researchers spent three hours packed aboard a steamy Gulfstream-1 research aircraft as ...

Restore natural forests to meet global climate goals

Credit: Credit, S. Lewis. International plans to restore forests to combat global warming are flawed and will fall far short ...

Scientists confirm first report of egg parasitoid in Africa to fight fall armyworm

Credit: CABI A group of scientists have confirmed the first report of an egg parasitoid Telenomus remus in Africa which ...

NASA finds wind shear tearing apart Subtropical Cyclone Joaninha

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Terra satellite revealed that strong wind shear was adversely affecting Subtropical Cyclone Joaninha ...

CABI-led study recommends improvements to how impacts of non-native species are assessed

CABI has led an international team of non-native species specialists who have compiled a list of recommendations to improve the ...

Research connects big data marketing tools, land conservation

The same data used by digital marketers to sell products can also help inspire conservation behaviors. The same data used ...

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