Four Columbia Women Are Reimagining Rice Farming to Tackle Climate

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 20, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

During my time at the Columbia Climate School and School of International and Public Affairs as a student in the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program, I had the privilege of studying alongside the brilliant women behind Clean Crop, a project that grew from...

From Waste to Worth: Fashion’s Opportunity to Reclaim up to $150 Billion in Lost Textile Value a Year

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The world is producing clothes and other textiles at an unprecedented rate—and discarding them just as fast. In 2024, global textile waste reached 120 million metric tons, with 80% ending up in landfills or incinerated. By comparison, only 12% of the total was reused,...

Statement by Commissioner Lahbib on the 2025 World Humanitarian

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

“The EU is one of the world’s largest humanitarian aid donors, working to save millions of lives in crisis situations globally. Yet at a time when humanitarian needs are reaching new heights, respect for International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is under threat....

Scientists Hack Microbes to Identify Environmental Sources of Methane

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

UC Berkeley researchers tweaked a key enzyme involved in microbial methane production to understand the unique fingerprints of different environments on Earth that generate the greenhouse gas. Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane — a highly...

In a Warming Atlantic, Hurricanes Increasingly Arrive in Groups

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 18, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

As ocean waters heat up, the Atlantic is increasingly seeing not just one, but two or more hurricanes spin up at the same time. That is the finding of a new study, which warns that warming is raising the risk that coastal cities may be battered by back-to-back storms....

Less Sea Ice, More Bergy Waters

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 15, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Climate change in the Arctic is happening faster than anywhere else on the planet. Sea ice is melting, while glaciers are calving, leading to more icebergs in the ocean. Sea ice in the Arctic is melting at an alarming rate, and this development is a clear indicator of...