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CO2 utilisation has the potential to operate at large scale and at low cost, meaning it could form part of a viable new global industry. If done correctly, using CO2 to create valuable products could help offset the cost of reducing emissions or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, say a team led by researchers … Read more
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have shown that ice melt from Antarctica drives rapid and high sea-level rise, offering a forewarning of what to expect under human-driven climate change. The researchers examined historical and new data from the ‘last interglacial’, which took place 125,000 to 118,000 years ago and saw sea levels rise … Read more
A global coalition of scientists led by William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf of Oregon State University says “untold human suffering” is unavoidable without deep and lasting shifts in human activities that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and other factors related to climate change. “Despite 40 years of major global negotiations, we have continued to … Read more
With climate change, plants of the future will consume more water than in the present day, leading to less water available for people living in North America and Eurasia, according to a Dartmouth-led study in Nature Geoscience. The research suggests a drier future despite anticipated precipitation increases for places like the United States and Europe, populous … Read more
Dr Jasper Leuven from Utrecht University (now working at Royal HaskoningDHV) investigated the effect of sea-level rise on estuaries worldwide. These estuaries tend to be densely populated areas that extremely sensitive to changes in the landscape. He shows that different-sized estuaries respond differently to sea-level rise, and his work provides a basis for carrying out … Read more
A new way to date a common mineral could help pinpoint ore deposits and improve mineral exploration globally, according to University of Queensland scientists. The researchers have identified a new reference material and used a state-of-the-art instrument to better date rock formations in central Asia. UQ’s Professor Jian-xin Zhao said the team started by analysing … Read more
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have used climate models and geological records to better understand changes in the East Asian monsoon over long geologic time scales. Their findings, published today in the journal Science Advances, suggest that the monsoon system’s development was more sensitive to changes in geography (especially mountain height) … Read more
Do tectonic plates move because of motion in the Earth’s mantle, or is the mantle driven by the movement of the plates? Or could it be that this question is ill-posed? This is the point of view adopted by scientists at the École Normale Supérieure – PSL, the CNRS and the University of Rome 3, … Read more
The renowned scientific journal Nature Climate Change pays extensive attention to climate research at the Ecotron Hasselt University. “Research into the impact of climate change on our ecosystems is very complex,” says project leader François Rineau. “With the Ecotron we have already made good progress in this research, it is great to see that this … Read more
Governance in climate vulnerable countries will take decades to improve, substantially impeding the ability of nations to adapt to climate change and affecting billions of people globally, according to new research involving the University of East Anglia (UEA). Published in Nature Sustainability today the study quantifies – for the first time – different governance pathways at the … Read more