One woman’s trash is another man’s gold, or so the old saying goes. Now, scientists have found a way to turn any carbon-based trash — from food scraps to plastics
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Timber buildings could store anywhere between 10 million tonnes of carbon per year to 700 million tonnes, according to a new paper published on 27 January in Nature Sustainability. With
In 2019, the oceans reached higher temperatures than at any other point in recorded human history, according to a new analysis published on 13 January in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
Natural gas faces an uncertain future. As the most environmentally friendly fossil fuel, it is considered a potential “bridge fuel” in the transition to cleaner energy sources. In a new
The outcome of the two-week-long COP25 conference in Madrid with delegates from almost 200 nations was a partial agreement that asks countries to come up with more ambitious targets to
Yesterday — Wednesday 11 December — the European Commission revealed details of its much anticipated European Green Deal, covering everything from the food we grow to the air we breathe
Despite widespread awareness of the perils of climate change and grandiose declarations by governments, global average temperatures and carbon emissions continue to rise for a third consecutive year and will
The majority of climate models published between the early 1970s and late 2000s were remarkably accurate, according to a systematic review published on 4 December in Geophysical Research Letters (1).
Scientists have created the first ‘rigorous’ map of the sustainability of global food systems that moves beyond focusing solely on the agriculture-nutrition connection and introduces all the different elements of
In a recent commentary published on 27 November in the journal Nature, leading climate scientists warn the planet may have already surpassed several tipping points (1). “We are in a