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Microplastics discovered in Europe’s largest ice cap for the first time

A research team has discovered microplastics in Europe’s largest ice cap, a potential warning sign for future environmental implications.

Action required to stop climate change exacerbated floods

Climate experts have signalled that climate change will continue to intensify extreme rainfall and floods if vital action is not taken.

Ensuring the waste water sector meets environmental challenges

Europe’s waste water service providers can help meet the Green Deal’s ambitions, meet environmental challenges and make our water services fit for the future.

Peatlands and climate change: from threat to cure

Sustainable management of peatlands and mitigating climate change: Waterloo’s Ecohydrology Research Group helps close key knowledge gaps. Peatlands are a valuable but vulnerable natural resource....

Destruction of ancient ozone layer stunted human population

Research has signified that a primordial supervolcano severely decreased atmospheric ozone levels, reducing the human population.

Clues to future climate change effects found in Antarctica

A novel investigation of smoke particles trapped in Antarctic ice spanning back hundreds of years may reveal the planet's future climate change effects. The study,...

Earth’s water reservoirs accountable for greenhouse gas emissions

Researchers have identified that the Earth’s water reservoirs emit more considerable greenhouse gas emissions than previously anticipated.

Natural disasters: exposing inequalities in society

Margherita Bruscolini, Geoscientist & UAV Pilot at RSS-Hydro examines how natural disasters expose the stark inequalities in society between the wealthy and poor, and...

Groundbreaking steps toward developing fusion power plants

Results from UK experiment indicate a solution to the challenges of fusion and are vital for the development of fusion power plants.

Enhancing the efficiency of solar panels with holographic light

A recently developed holographic light collector increases the efficiency of solar panels with an energy conversion increase of around 5% over a year.

Sustainable Materials Research and Technologies

The SMaRT research group at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology runs a comprehensive programme for the development sustainable materials and technologies, including energy...

Mapping remote island wildlife as part of international climate action

As part of a new climate action initiative, researchers will utilise 5G, AI and data science techniques to map wild plants and ancient forests on remote Indonesian islands.

Fossil fuel emissions may be skewing data from marine ecosystems

A novel tool has been developed that will enable scientists to determine how centuries of fossil fuel emissions may be distorting the data they collect from marine ecosystems.  

Manufacturing industrially applicable materials from CO2

Novel method turns CO2 into a precious industrial material called silicon carbide, turning greenhouse gas emissions into economic resources.

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