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
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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
Both the scale and speed of Greenland’s ice losses are much higher than predicted, according to a new paper published on 10 December in Nature (1). The authors claim ice
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
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
The European Parliament has voted in favour of declaring a global ‘climate and environmental emergency’ with 429 lawmakers for, 225 against and 19 abstaining, according to Reuters. The declaration was
The European Parliament (EP) is split on whether or not to pass a resolution today that would declare a global climate emergency before a critical UN summit next week. The
Coating seeds with bacteria, silk, and sugar could allow plants to thrive in saline environments, according to a new study published on 25 November in Proceedings of the National Academy
Last Thursday, the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced that it would cease funding for fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, making it the first ‘climate bank’. The unprecedented move by
Bacteria adapt to hotter temperatures by increasing their respiration rate and releasing more carbon dioxide (CO2), which could potentially accelerate climate change, according to a new study published on 13