Climate change: More fossil fuel investment, just ‘delusional’, warns Guterres

mennessä CrNet Oy | kesä 15, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

  New funding from governments for fossil fuel exploration or production is simply “delusional” the UN chief warned on Tuesday, adding that it would only “further feed the scourge or war, pollution and climate catastrophe.” António Guterres was speaking at the...

‘We can do better, we must’ declares departing UN climate change chief, as COP27 looms over horizon

mennessä CrNet Oy | kesä 7, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The annual UN Climate Change Conference in the German city of Bonn began on Monday, designed to lay the groundwork for a successful COP27, due to take place in the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh, in November. Governments are meeting for the first time...

LIFE programme awards 2022 winners for boosting biodiversity, environmental and climate action resilience and awareness raising

mennessä CrNet Oy | kesä 1, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Yesterday afternoon during EU Green Week, Europe’s largest annual environmental event, the LIFE Programme for environment and climate action announced the five winners of this year’s LIFE Awards. The LIFE Award for Nature goes to a project from Cyprus for...

Climate Change on Course to Hit U.S. Corn Belt Especially Hard, Study Finds

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 25, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Climate change will make the U.S. Corn Belt unsuitable for cultivating corn by 2100 without major technological advances in agricultural practices, an Emory University study finds. Environmental Research Letters published the research, which adds to the evidence that...

Climate Resilient Microalgae Could Help Restore Coral Reefs

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 3, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Coral species exhibit different temperature tolerances. This is in part due to the composition of their microalgae symbionts. With a new method, researchers from Uppsala University were able to predict how individual microalgae might behave under future temperature...