On 17 September, Germany launched two new hydrogen-powered trains. The trains were built by French train maker Alstom and are now operating on a 100-km route in Lower Saxony in
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A new analysis published on 14 September in Science has revealed that around 50 thousand square kilometres of forests are being cleared every year to make way for industrial agriculture.
“A critical flaw” in EU climate policy: renewable energy directive poised to promote global deforestation
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A paper published on 12 September in Nature Communications, co-authored by several academics from the US and Europe, has slammed Europe’s latest climate law which will count energy created from
A study published on 10 September in Nature Ecology & Evolution has brought to light the current threat aquaculture farmers are facing owing to climate change and highlights the need
On September 8, The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands founded by 24-year-old Boyan Slat and funded by a number of tech investors, including Peter Thiel and
A new study published in Science, a scientific journal, on 7 September suggests installing massive wind and solar installations in the Sahara Desert could increase local rainfall, particularly in the
Renewable energy economics: what is the best approach to a carbon-free electricity grid?
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A new study performed by Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology published on 6 September in Joule, a Cell Press journal, suggests that a mixture of carbon-free energy sources may
A study published on 3 September in Nature Ecology & Evolution used one of the most extensive datasets available on the movement of large marine animals ― part of the Census
The negative effects of higher temperatures, along with higher incidences of extreme events such as droughts and flooding, on staple crops are widely accepted but globing warming is bringing with
Rising ocean temperatures may have detrimental effects on coral reefs at extremely low depths
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Warmer ocean temperatures are known to be a major cause of coral bleaching at the ocean surface but new research, led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the