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Environment
€3 million research project reveals how seabirds avoid offshore wind farms
Cutting edge radar and AI tracks bird species and flight around offshore wind farm in 3D [...]
New Research Paper Reveals there aare more than 170 Trillion Pieces of Plastic afloat in the World’s Oceans
A research paper published today in PLOS ONE1 reveals there are more than 170 trillion (171 000 000 000 000 000 000!) [...]
UCLA Engineers Design Solar Roofs to Harvest Energy for Greenhouses
Advance can simultaneously benefit energy generation and crop production . As countries around the globe seek sustainable energy [...]
If a peatland burns, water bodies and drinking water can suffer
Not only forests and dry pastures can burn, fires can also start in peatlands. However, due [...]
War in Ukraine threatens freshwater resources and water infrastructure
The ongoing war in Ukraine is having multiple impacts on the country’s water sector, according to [...]
Global CO2 emissions rose less than initially feared in 2022 as clean energy growth offset much of the impact of greater coal and oil use
Risk of runaway emissions growth from shift to coal amid global energy crisis fails to materialise [...]
What makes people care about the environment?
A new study analyzes the factors that drive environmental concern among Europeans in an effort to [...]
Record low sea ice cover in the Antarctic
Sea ice extent in the Southern Ocean now the lowest since the beginning of satellite observation [...]
‘Blue marble’: how half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth
In December 1972, Nasa’s final Apollo mission (Apollo 17) took the iconic “Blue Marble” photo of [...]
Plastic debris in the Arctic comes from all around the world – including Germany
AWI researchers have analysed the origins of plastic debris on the shores of Svalbard. “Citizen Science” [...]
Glacial flooding threatens millions globally
Fifteen million people around the world are at risk from flooding caused by glacial lakes, with [...]
Stainless steel recycling saves greenhouse gases
Greenhouse gas balance for stainless steel production further improved Stainless steel recycling is considered to be [...]
Earth likely to cross critical climate thresholds even if emissions decline, Stanford study finds
Artificial intelligence provides new evidence our planet will cross the global warming threshold of 1.5 degrees [...]
Water crises due to climate change: more severe than previously thought
The interference of climate change with the planet’s water cycle is a well established fact. New [...]
Farming more seaweed for food, feed and fuel
A University of Queensland-led study has shown that expanding global seaweed farming could go a long [...]