climate
Picture an agricultural region that today provides jobs to thousands of seasonal workers each year. Now imagine that same region as it might look like in the year 2070, when average temperatures are 3.5 degrees C warmer than today and rainfall has dropped by 35 per cent. Whatever it
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The rapid melting of Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers might be a worrisome indicator of climate change, but it’s also produced an unexpected upside: large blooms of phytoplankton that could end up storing lots of carbon on the seafloor. Researchers with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have found that
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A different kind of “doomsday clock” launched by Oxford University is ticking toward 2045, the year at which it’s estimated — under a “business as usual” scenario — we’ll emit the trillionth tonne of carbon and tip the scales in the direction of catastrophic climate change. As of today, the
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Cutting back on other greenhouse gas emissions and climate forcers besides carbon dioxide could “buy us about 40 years” in the effort to stave off catastrophic climate change, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study’s authors, which include a
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is rolling out a new and improved global climate change disclosure system in an effort to both encourage greenhouse gas emission reductions and boost the performance of corporations. Being developed in partnership with Accenture, Microsoft and SAP, the new system will streamline the reporting process
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Environmentally “green” beer: Munich brewing engineers research energy savings Brewing engineers from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are working hard to improve the energy balance of the amber beverage. They are looking into a new process combination that would allow energy savings of up to 20% during brewing. Siemens wants
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How can we make the UK’s transport system more resistant to climate change, and what will it look like in 2050? Those are the questions being explored by FUTURENET, a four-year, £1.5 million research project directed by a consortium of UK universities. Academics at the University of Nottingham’
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Speaking on the subject of “Sustainable Economy” during a visit to the US, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn today warned that we are facing a “crisis of sustainability.” “The most glaring threat is that of dangerous climate change,” Benn said in his address at the Woodrow Wilson Centre. “But it is
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This via Climate Progress: despite the unusually cold and snowy winter many of us are experiencing, global temperatures over the past year have rocketed up by 20 times the rate of previous years. Tell us that’s not scary. Citing new data from NASA, Climate Progress’ Joseph Romm reports that
cleantech
What was happening in the world of cleantech yesterday? Following are some of the headlines you might have missed: * It’s on again, it’s off again. After initially granting its OK to the project, the German government has ordered a halt to an ocean fertilisation experiment in the Southern
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The global climate changes wrought by rising carbon dioxide emissions are now too late to stop and will linger for more than 1,000 years, according to a new study by researchers in the US and Europe. “Our study convinced us that current choices regarding carbon dioxide emissions will have
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Skipped the cleantech news reports over the weekend? Not to worry. Greenbang’s got you covered with today’s roundup of stories you might have missed: * When you think about the potential for solar power, talking rubbish bins probably aren’t the first application to come to mind. But, hey,