This overview sets the scene for the various modules in the Renewables 2024 Global Status Report Collection. It provides high-level trends on the status of renewables in the wider fossil fuel-dominated energy system in the context of global challenges such as climate change, development goals and the geopolitical landscape. Urgent …
Phytoplankton form the foundation of the marine food web and regulate key biogeochemical processes. These organisms face multiple environmental changes1, including the decline in ocean pH (ocean acidification) caused by rising atmospheric pCO2 (ref. 2). A meta-analysis of published experimental data assessing growth rates of different phytoplankton taxa under both …
An Edinburgh company has won the UK's top engineering prize for its digital hydraulic power system. The MacRobert Award judges said Artemis Intelligent Power's "digital displacement" system was a "technical advance of global importance". The technology could increase the power of offshore wind turbines and cut fuel consumption and carbon …
Geo-engineering schemes like reflecting solar radiation or sucking CO2 out of the sky will not be a feasible way to reduce emissions for the next several decades, a new EU-funded report has warned. The analysis comes from the European Trans-disciplinary Assessment of Climate Engineering (EuTRACE), a multinational project set up …
Climate change is not normally on people's minds when they choose what to have for lunch, but a new diet is calling for people to go 'Climatarian' for their health and for the planet. Climates - a new environmental social networking site - claims that switching to a its climate-focused …
Australians bury their heads in the sands of Bondi Beach to send a message to Prime Minister Tony Abbott about the dangers of climate change. Photo: Supplied Nearly one in five Australians do not believe in climate change, making the country the worst in the world for climate sceptics, a …
Japan said on Friday it would slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent by 2030 from 2013 levels and would submit the plan to the United Nations later in the day as its contribution to a global summit on climate change in Paris in November. The target is based …
NEW DELHI: Transit-oriented development (TOD) can improve Delhi's air quality considerably by reducing the number of vehicle-miles travelled, the way it has done in several cities worldwide. Barcelona in Spain is a standout example of the benefits of TOD. In terms of population it is slightly bigger than Atlanta, USA …
On June 30, the People’s Republic of China submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the global effort for the mitigation of climate change risks. China intends to peak carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by around 2030 and lower CO2 emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 60-65 …
Natural CO2 releases from shallow marine hydrothermal vents are assumed to mix into the water column, and not accumulate into stratified seafloor pools. We present newly discovered shallow subsea pools located within the Santorini volcanic caldera of the Southern Aegean Sea, Greece, that accumulate CO2 emissions from geologic reservoirs. This …
Increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) lower the content of zinc and other nutrients in important food crops. Zinc defi ciency is currently responsible for large burdens of disease globally, and the populations who are at highest risk of zinc defi ciency also receive most of their dietary zinc …
India, which is expected to submit its post-2020 'climate action plan' to a UN body in September, on Tuesday said that the carbon emission cut targets offered by rich nations as part of their respective pledges were not ambitious. "Numbers (emission cut percentage) offered by the developed countries are not …
Govt revising and enhancing and widening scope of energy efficiency targets for industry India will submit its targets for the Paris climate agreement in about one-month-and-a-half after hectic parleys within ministries, with the industry and others. The announcement will capture the revamped energy efficiency targets the government is planning to …
The U.S. power sector is steadily slashing emissions of toxic particles and heat-trapping carbon dioxide. But the progress is distributed unevenly among utilities and across state lines, and the emissions cuts still aren’t steep enough to meet national climate change targets, a new analysis found. “Overall, the carbon emissions curve …
In response to the many dangerous impacts of climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first-ever limits on industrial carbon pollution in June 2014. Each year more than 2 billion tons of carbon pollution are spewed into the atmosphere by power plants -- the largest source of U.S. …
Mumbai: A whopping USD 200 billion worth of wheat, rice and maize crops could be lost by 2050 globally if the issues arising from global warming are not addressed on a war-footing, an independent study on the impact of climate change on crop yields has warned. "By 2050, about USD …
Climate strongly influences global wildfire activity, and recent wildfire surges may signal fire weather-induced pyrogeographic shifts. Here we use three daily global climate data sets and three fire danger indices to develop a simple annual metric of fire weather season length, and map spatio-temporal trends from 1979 to 2013. We …
The most comprehensive analysis to date on U.S. power plant air pollution emissions shows that most of the nation’s largest electric utilities have seen significant reductions in global warming pollution in recent years. The report’s release comes as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares to finalize the Clean Power Plan …
As the world waits word from India on how high a target it will set itself for cutting carbon emissions, New Delhi has said its contribution would be "much more ambitious than what people expect" but rich nations must be ready to share the cost burden. "We will do our …
CHANDIGARH: More than 100 fish were found dead, floating on the surface of a man-made lake at Dhanas on Sunday morning, putting aquatic life under severe risk. Local residents said they had observed dead fish in the water for the past one week. Even as the dead fish have not …
Domestic economic gains from action to tackle climate change include improved air quality, increased energy efficiency, and clean technology innovation ‘spillovers’ says this paper released today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and London School of Economics Social scientists have long assumed that actions by states to reduce …
