Clean and clear: How being more transparent over resources helps cut carbon emissions
Credit: University of Sussex Countries that sign up to improved financial transparency over oil, gas, and mining revenues benefit from ...
Tag: Climate Change
Warm central equatorial pacific sea surface temperatures and anthropogenic warming boosted the 2019 severe drought in East China
Credit: Jufang Hu Drought usually originates from a deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time and is identified ...
NTU scientists report plastic could be ‘eco-friendlier’ than paper &cotton in Singapore
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have modelled the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of using different ...
Start-up with plastic waste recycling solution wins top prize at ideasinc 2020
Credit: NTU Singapore Magorium - a Singaporean start-up seeking to disrupt the construction industry with an innovative plastic waste recycling ...
Scientists shed new light on viruses’ role in coral bleaching
Credit: (photo by Andrew Thurber, OSU). CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists at Oregon State University have shown that viral infection is ...
American Pikas show resiliency in the face of global warming
Credit: Andrew Smith, Arizona State University The American pika is a charismatic, diminutive relative of rabbits that some researchers say ...
Trees and lawns beat the heat
Mixed landscapes are the best way to adapt to climate change and mitigate the heat island effect in semi-arid regionsCredit: ...
NASA sees Tropical Storm Nangka soaking Hainan Island
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Using a NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations, NASA estimated Nangka's rainfall ...
Foreign election interference: A global response
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 13, 2020—The increasing threat of foreign interference in elections has ...
NASA animation tracks the end of Tropical Storm Delta
Credit: Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite obtained visible imagery as ...
Literal rise of the internet enables new climate science
NSF helps Rice University professor crunch data on atmospheric gravity wavesCredit: Loon HOUSTON - (Oct. 12, 2020) - An unintended ...
To protect nature’s benefits, focus on people
Credit: Luis Del Rio/Pexels To calculate the true value of a forest, we need to know how people benefit from ...
Fuels, not fire weather, control carbon emissions in boreal forest
Credit: Victor Leshyk, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society As climate warming stokes longer fire seasons and more severe fires ...
The unending waste management challenge – are we at our wits’ end?
Waste management would need a radical change. It could be achieved through the application of knowledge management tools and approaches ...
Professor Simon Pollard awarded OBE for services to the environment
Cranfield University Professor awarded OBE for services to environmental risk managementCredit: Cranfield University Professor Simon Pollard DSc FREng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of ...
Study shows how climate impacts food webs, poses socioeconomic threat in Eastern Africa
Climate impacts on Lake Tanganyika are a bellwether for global change worldwide, team saysCredit: Michael McGlue, University of Kentucky LEXINGTON, ...
Climate patterns linked in Amazon, North and South America, study shows
A tree-ring chronology developed by U of A researchers established a connection between precipitation in the Amazon and the AmericasCredit: ...
Scientists suggest global guidelines for sustainable use of non-native trees
A team of international scientists have collaborated to propose a series of global guidelines for the sustainable use of non-native ...
NASA finds hurricane delta packing heavy rainfall
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA's satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations found that Hurricane Delta was bringing ...
NASA shows heaviest rainfall displaced in Typhoon Chan-hom
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Typhoon Chan-hom was still moving parallel to Japan's east coast as NASA's satellite rainfall product, that incorporates ...
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