mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 26, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development
A new study published in Nature Climate Change estimates that a 1-meter sea level rise by 2100 would affect over 14 million people and $1 trillion worth of property along the Southeast Atlantic coast, from Norfolk, Virginia, to Miami, Florida. The study assesses the...
mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 25, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development
A sobering report released by UN Women and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Monday reveals that in 2023, 140 women and girls died every day at the hands of their partner or a close relative, which means one woman killed every 10 minutes. Released on the...
mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 25, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development
MIT is co-leading an effort to enable the development of two new large-scale renewable energy projects in regions with carbon-intensive electrical grids: Big Elm Solar in Bell County, Texas, came online this year, and the Bowman Wind Project in Bowman County, North...
mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 14, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development
In 2023, 11.8% of materials used in the EU came from recycled materials. This indicator is known as ‘circular material use rate’ or ‘circularity rate’, and it measures the contribution of recycled materials in the overall use of materials. Compared with 2022, the...
mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 7, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development
Bio-based materials may pose a greater health risk to some of the planet’s most important species than the conventional plastics they are designed to replace, a new study has shown. Such materials are increasingly being advocated as environmentally friendly...
