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19.04.21 | Plastic-eating enzyme 'cocktail' heralds new hope for plastic waste | 1.047 | PORTSMOUTH, April 19 (WNM/Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) - A second enzyme, found in the same rubbish dwelling bacterium that lives on a diet of plastic bottles, has been combined... ► Artikel lesen | ||
15.04.21 | Climate change is making Indian monsoon seasons more chaotic | 1.003 | POTSDAM, APRIL 15 (WNM/Earth System) - If global warming continues unchecked, summer monsoon rainfall in India will become stronger and more erratic. This is the central finding of an analysis by a... ► Artikel lesen | ||
14.04.21 | Climate change has caused billions of dollars in flood damages | 1.003 | STANFORD, April 14 (WNM/Stanford University) - In a new study, Stanford researchers report that intensifying precipitation contributed one-third of the financial costs of flooding in the United States... ► Artikel lesen | ||
13.04.21 | More trees do not always create a cooler planet, study shows | 987 | WORCESTER, MA, APRIL 13 (WNM/Science Advances) - New research by Christopher A. Williams, an environmental scientist and professor in Clark University's Graduate School of Geography, reveals that deforestation... ► Artikel lesen | ||
09.04.21 | Researchers reveal cost of key climate solution | 938 | STANFORD, APRIL 9 (WNM/Stanford University) - First comprehensive nationwide assessment estimates energy penalties from managing carbon dioxide storage reservoirs. The findings provide a framework for... ► Artikel lesen | ||
08.04.21 | We don't know how most mammals will respond to climate change, warn scientists | 1.013 | ZURICH, APRIL 8 (WNM/Animal Ecology/Sebastian Tilch) - Nearly 25% of mammal species are threatened with extinction, with this risk exacerbated by climate change. But the ways climate change is impacting... ► Artikel lesen | ||
07.04.21 | Evidence of Antarctic glacier's tipping point confirmed | 1.010 | NEWCASTLE, APRIL 7 (WNM/The Cryosphere) - Researchers have confirmed for the first time that Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica could cross tipping points, leading to a rapid and irreversible retreat... ► Artikel lesen | ||
06.04.21 | African elephants' range has shrunk greatly - study | 1.063 | KENYA, April 6 (WNM/Current Biology) - A study reported in the journal Current Biology has both good news and bad news for the future of African elephants. While about 18 million square kilometers of... ► Artikel lesen | ||
01.04.21 | Carbon-neutral "biofuel" from lakes | 1.036 | BASEL, SWITZERLAND, April 1 (WNM/Universität Basel) - Discussion about the current climate crisis usually focuses on carbon dioxide (CO2). The greenhouse gas methane is less well known, but although... ► Artikel lesen | ||
31.03.21 | Asia and Europe are at high-risk of pesticide pollution | 1.099 | SYDNEY, March 30 (WNM/Nature Geoscience) - A global map of agricultural land across 168 countries has revealed that 64 percent of land used for agriculture and food crops is at risk of pesticide pollution.... ► Artikel lesen | ||
30.03.21 | Forests on caffeine: Coffee waste can boost forest recovery | 1.219 | LONDON, March 30 (WNM/Ecological Solutions and Evidence) - A new study finds that coffee pulp, a waste product of coffee production, can be used to speed up tropical forest recovery on post agricultural... ► Artikel lesen | ||
29.03.21 | Climate change warms groundwater in Bavaria | 999 | HALLE-WITTENBERG, March 29 (WNM/Frontiers in Earth Science/Ronja Münch) - Groundwater reservoirs in Bavaria have warmed considerably over the past few decades. A new study by researchers at Martin Luther... ► Artikel lesen | ||
25.03.21 | How the aviation industry must change after Covid-19 - study | 1.020 | VÄXJÖ, SWEDEN, March 25 (WNM/Linnaeus University/Ulrika Bergström) - The ongoing pandemic can be an opportunity for the aviation industry to make a transition, by gradually exchanging fossil fuels for... ► Artikel lesen | ||
24.03.21 | Industrialised countries finance new coal-fired power plants in Asia on a grand scale | 1.156 | BERLIN, March 24 (WNM/Environmental Research Letters/Ulrich von Lampe) - The Paris Climate Agreement not only incorporates the temperature targets of 1.5 and 2 degrees as the maximum tolerated global... ► Artikel lesen | ||
23.03.21 | Air pollutant reductions could enhance global warming without greenhouse gas cuts | 1.081 | FUKUOKA, JAPAN, March 23 (WNM/Kyushu University) - As countries around the world race to mitigate global warming by limiting carbon dioxide emissions, an unlikely source could be making climate goals... ► Artikel lesen | ||
22.03.21 | More trees do not always create a cooler planet, study shows | 974 | WORCESTER, MA, March 22 (WNM/Clark University) - New research by Christopher A. Williams, an environmental scientist and professor in Clark University's Graduate School of Geography, reveals that deforestation... ► Artikel lesen | ||
19.03.21 | Climate-neutral agriculture to be expensive and antisocial - study | 1.019 | ZURICH, March 19 (WNM/ETH Zurich) - Emissions of methane and nitrogen oxides from agriculture are Europe's second most important contributor to climate change, after CO2 emissions from burning fossil... ► Artikel lesen | ||
18.03.21 | Covid-19-related emissions drop likely does not substantially affect the global climate | 1.016 | COLOGNE, March 18 (WNM/Geophysical Research Letters/Gabriele Meseg-Rutzen) - The drop in emissions due to worldwide Covid-19 lockdowns was too small in both magnitude and duration to have a significant... ► Artikel lesen | ||
17.03.21 | Governments worldwide want to restrict the market power of major tech companies | 2.902 | BERLIN, March 17 (WNM) - The market power of major tech companies like Google, Apple or Facebook is a matter of concern for lawmakers in the EU, the USA and Russia. Now they want to try to prevent the... ► Artikel lesen | ||
16.03.21 | European summer droughts since 2015 exceed anything in the past two millennia | 985 | CAMBRIDGE, 16. März (WNM/University of Cambridge/ Petra Giegerich) - Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study. An international... ► Artikel lesen | ||
15.03.21 | Potentially harmful chemicals found in plastic toys | 788 | COPENHAGEN, March 15 (WNM/Environment International) - It has long been known that several chemicals used in plastic toys in different parts of the world can be harmful to human health. However, it... ► Artikel lesen | ||
12.03.21 | How global sustainable development will affect forests | 815 | LEEDS, March 12 (WNM/Forest Policy and Economics) - The United Nations' 17 key areas for global development - known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - range from tackling poverty, hunger... ► Artikel lesen | ||
11.03.21 | Huge potential for electronic textiles made with new cellulose thread | 1.058 | STOCKHOLM, March 11 (WNM/The Swedish Research Council/ Christian Borg) - "Miniature, wearable, electronic gadgets are ever more common in our daily lives. But currently, they are often dependent on... ► Artikel lesen | ||
08.03.21 | Precision technology allows quantification of urban greenhouse gas emissions | 1.162 | MUNICH, March 8 (WNM/Technische Universität München/Katharina Baumeister) - The sensor network MUCCnet (Munich Urban Carbon Column network) consists of five high-precision optical instruments that analyze... ► Artikel lesen | ||
04.03.21 | Air pollution fell sharply during lockdown | 877 | INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA, March 4 (WNMUniversität Innsbruck/Christian Flatz) - The far-reaching mobility restrictions at the beginning of the Corona pandemic in March 2020 created a unique situation for atmospheric... ► Artikel lesen |