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A study coordinated by Humboldt-Universität has analysed so-called overshoot scenarios and warns of their consequences for the climate and the environment.

Electric cars are no longer a rarity on the roads. But on Swiss construction sites, electrically powered excavators or trucks are still a rarity.

A team of researchers seeks to understand how robotics can help engineers address environmental challenges, such as monitoring affected soils. When researchers need to collect data about a worksite's soil quality, they can run into several problems. Using excavators to access sites can be challenging, expensive, and may limit the ability to collect samples.

Study: Tracking individual animals can reveal the mechanisms of species loss (DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.008) (available when embargo lifts or by request) Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity.

As Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide vital insights into what may lie ahead. But knowledge of the natural world millions of years ago is fragmented. A 15-year study of a site in Bolivia by a joint U.S.-Bolivia team has provided a comprehensive view of an ancient ecosystem when Earth was much warmer than it is today.

Solar panels have the power to make the aviation industry greener than it's ever been, but they can also impose challenges for pilots and air traffic control. Fortunately, University of Waterloo researchers are discovering ways to make this vital source of clean energy work for airports around the world.

Extraction of nickel, an essential component of clean energy technologies, needs stronger policies to protect local environments and communities, MIT researchers say.

Ancient cultural burning practices carried out by Indigenous Australians limited fuel availability and prevented high intensity fires in southeastern Australia for thousands of years, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Nottingham.

When there's a fly hovering around your head, buzzing incessantly in your ear, deftly avoiding your aggravated swatting, that pesky little insect is all'you can think about until it's over.

Researchers across MIT are working on ways to boost food production and help crops survive drought. As Earth's temperature rises, agricultural practices will need to adapt.

In times of climate crisis and food shortages, the cultivation of microalgae is a promising solution that could fundamentally change the way we produce animal feed, bioplastics or biofuel.

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People around the world are facing record-breaking health threats because of climate inaction, including continued investment in fossil fuels and lagging funding for action to protect health, finds the latest Lancet Countdown report led by UCL researchers. The  2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reveals that people in every country face record-breaking threats to health and survival from the rapidly changing climate, with 10 of 15 indicators tracking health threats reaching concerning new levels.

Before going to school to learn how to read and write their language, children first manage to understand and then speak it.

Our researchers have explored how Arctic marine species could be impacted by climate change and rising sea temperatures in the future.

Cutting-edge satellite technologies paired with Indigenous knowledge and historical data will support science and management of marine ecosystems, thanks to a new investment in the work of University of Victoria geography researcher Maycira Costa.

EPFL chemical engineers have developed a way to build metal clusters - with near atomic precision - in a method that has the potential to improve catalysts and accelerate chemical reactions including turning carbon dioxide into high value chemicals like methanol.

A secure supply of electricity from renewable energies can only succeed if we also modernise the grid infrastructure.

Researchers from Bonn show which procedure reduces the amount of anesthetic discarded Propofol is used in the operating room to induce anesthesia.

Bonn researchers show which procedure reduces the waste of the anesthetic Propofol is used in the operating room to induce anesthesia. In order to maintain anesthesia, total intravenous anesthesia is usually followed by a continuous infusion of the drug via a separate syringe pump. This is not entirely sustainable: propofol produces around 45 percent of the drug waste in the operating room and a quarter of the drug remains unused.

Calculate and improve climate footprint more effectively thanks to new model So far, there have been no concepts for tourism in the net-zero climate strategy, partly due to a lack of concrete data.

The Permafrost Tunnel north of Fairbanks, Alaska, was dug in the 1960s and is run by the U.S. Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. It is the site of much research into permafrost - ground that stays frozen throughout the year, for. Credit: NASA/Kate Ramsayer" Earth's far northern reaches have locked carbon underground for millennia.

The mission of Eawag's Sandec department is to find global solutions for safe sanitation and clean drinking water.

New research conducted by Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment has found that h

The scientists' wide-scale acoustic mapping technique could help track vulnerable keystone species. There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes.

A new study by researchers at the UT sheds light on historical changes in the amount of water humanity consumes to grow the world's main crops.