Falling clean energy costs can provide opportunity to boost climate action during COVID-19 recovery: UN
184 GW of clean power capacity added in 2019, up 12% from GW added in 2018; New capacity delivered with ...
Tag: Climate Change
DOE NETL commissions SwRI to develop methane quantification technology
Project builds upon previous DOE-funded research using machine learning to detect methane leaksCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- June ...
NASA tracks Tropical Depression Cristobal moving toward Great Lakes
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Once a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, now a tropical depression in the Mississippi Valley, ...
Study tracks decades of life cycle changes in nonwoody plants
One biologist made 600,000 observations over the course of the studyCredit: Photo by Steve Buck CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- For 25 ...
Green Muscle providing strength against devastating locusts in the horn of Africa
CABI and Swiss biological control producers Éléphant Vert are stepping up the fight against crop-destroying locusts and grasshoppers with a ...
Parasitic fungi keep harmful blue-green algae in check
Credit: Angelina Tittmann, IGB When a lake is covered with green scums during a warm summer, cyanobacteria - often called ...
California’s climate refugia: Mapping the stable places
Which lands stand the best chance for conservation and wildfire restoration?Credit: UC Davis Some landscapes can hold their own against ...
Nature’s ‘slow lanes’ offer hope for species feeling heat of climate change
Credit: Photo by Garrett Meigs, OSU College of Forestry CORVALLIS, Ore. - Pockets of landscape less prone than adjacent areas ...
Scientists lament ‘Humpty Dumpty’ effect on world’s spectacular, rare wildlife
'We can't always put things back together again,' researchers sayCredit: Joel Berger/ Colorado State University Some of the world's largest, ...
USask-led partnership awarded $2.5 million to advance global climate education
Credit: David Stobbe for USask Working with international partners, the University of Saskatchewan (USask) has been awarded a $2.5-million Partnership ...
Researchers shed light on new enzymatic reaction
CABBI scientists at Illinois develop environmentally efficient process for compound synthesis with ties to pharmaceutical and bioenergy fieldsCredit: CABBI Communications ...
NASA calculates soaking rainfall in Tropical Depression Cristobal
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL When Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall in southern Louisiana yesterday, May 7, it dropped a lot of ...
Green cities roadmap touts COVID-19 recovery stimulus
Australian roadmap says greening cities can help kickstart economyCredit: IMAGE: Junglefy A Roadmap to fast-track flourishing green roofs, walls and ...
Climate change has degraded productivity of shelf sea food webs
Credit: Claire Widdicombe A shortage of summer nutrients as a result of our changing climate has contributed to a 50% ...
NASA analyzes Cristobal, the big rainmaker
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite gathered infrared imagery and cloud top temperature data on Tropical Depression Cristobal, and it ...
Air conditioner bumps the electric bill by 42%, increasing the risk of energy poverty
Credit: Gaia Squarci A new study published in Economic Modelling by researchers at Ca' Foscari University and CMCC shows that ...
Can deep water masses in the Mediterranean cross the Sicily Strait?
Underwater frontier between Mediterranean basinsCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA The Sicily Strait, an underwater relief connecting the Italian island with the ...
A tiny arctic shrub reveals secrets of plant growth on Svalbard
Counting tiny rings showed synchronous growth across an entire arctic archipelagoCredit: Lisa Sandal, NTNU The polar willow (Salix polaris) may ...
From Africa to the World: Connecting African innovators and ideas to industry
Credit: @AAS 2020 There is a disconnect between industry, angel donors, venture capitalists and research in Africa. This has resulted ...
Mangroves at risk if carbon emissions not reduced by 2050, international scientists predict
Credit: NTU Singapore/Benjamin Horton Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), and an international research team have predicted that ...
