Europe’s plastics industry risks ‘collapsing’ under broken market economics

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 12, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

More than 110 organisations within Europe’s plastics value chain have warned EU policymakers that the continent’s recycling industry is failing to cope with persistent challenges including the widening gap between virgin and recycled plastic prices. The organisations’...

Climate Change Could Result in Contaminant Spread in the High Arctic, McGill Study Finds

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 12, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Warming temperatures and increased precipitation in the Canadian High Arctic are mobilizing new pathways for subsurface contaminants to spread from more than 2,500 contaminated sites associated with industrial and military sites across the region. The pathways are...

Switzerland joins Horizon Europe and other key EU research and innovation programmes

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 12, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The European Union and Switzerland have signed the agreement on Switzerland’s participation in Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, and the Euratom Research & Training (R&T) programme. The agreement places Swiss researchers and organisations on the same...

Fishes, Young and Old, Are Shrinking in Michigan’s Inland Lakes

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 11, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Climate change is changing the size of fishes in Michigan’s inland lakes, leaving the young and old of many species more vulnerable to predation. A new study led by the University of Michigan shows that changes in climate are also changing the size of fishes in...

Phasing out a third of coal power plants in Asia can reduce around 1 billion tonnes of CO2 each year

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 11, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Phasing out about a third of pollutive coal power plants in over a dozen Asian countries through a novel form of carbon credits can reduce emissions by around one billion tonnes annually, an initiative led by Singapore’s central bank has found. This is equivalent to...

In the US, Western Rivers May Be Allies in the Fight Against Climate Change

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 10, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

New study reveals underestimation of carbon uptake in rivers in arid areas, with global implications. For decades, scientists have generally thought that rivers emit more carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, than they take in. But a new analysis of every river network in...