New Research Will Help Minimize Impact of Wind Energy Development on Migratory Birds

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 6, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The development of wind energy is expanding worldwide in an effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change. However, locations ideal for harvesting wind energy often overlap with wildlife concentrations, potentially leading to collisions and habitat...

New plan to accelerate clean energy access for millions globally

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 5, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Amid the global energy crisis and worsening climate emergency, the United Nations and partners on Wednesday launched two new initiatives to accelerate action towards achieving clean, affordable energy for all, and the ambitious goal of net-zero carbon emissions. The...

Study Develops Framework for Forecasting Contribution of Snowpack to Flood Risk During Winter Storms

mennessä CrNet Oy | touko 5, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

In the Sierra Nevada, midwinter “rain-on-snow” events occur when rain falls onto existing snowpack and have resulted in some of the region’s biggest and most damaging floods. Rain-on-snow events are projected to increase in size and frequency in the coming years, but...

Fisheries: EU and Norway strengthen cooperation for sustainable fishing in the Northeast Arctic

mennessä CrNet Oy | huhti 29, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Norway and the EU reached a political understanding in relation to the fisheries in the Northeast Arctic, in ICES subareas 1 and 2. The area concerned includes the waters around the archipelago of Svalbard and the international waters of the Barents Sea. The...

New Climate Modeling Predicts Increasing Occurrences of Flash Flooding Across Most of the U.S.

mennessä CrNet Oy | huhti 27, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The latest U.N. report on climate change documented researchers’ efforts that have shown some measures of global warming are now unavoidable, and current research efforts are focusing on mitigation and adaptation strategies. The latest U.N. report on climate change...