By Michele Colangelo European old-growth forests are estimated to occupy only 0.7% of the total forested area; they are of prime ecological value, representing small vestiges of how Europe’s past primeval forest may have looked. In addition, old-growth forests provide various and important ecosystem services, such as biodiversity maintenance, long-term carbon storage, and landscape uniqueness.
By Kenneth Richard A global-scale analysis of 221 islands in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans reveals “a predominantly stable or accretionary trend in the area of atoll islands worldwide” throughout the 21st century. The Maldives islands alone expanded by 37.5 km² from 2000 to 2017. For over 3 decades we’ve been warned “entire nations
By Changfan Xu et al. Abstract High-performance and low-cost catalysts are particularly desirable for the exploitation of practical low-overpotential Na-CO2 batteries with protracted cyclability. Herein, a well-defined morphology of nitrogen-rich graphitic carbon framework with dense bimetallic active sites (Fe-Cu-N-C) was facilely prepared by introducing Fe3+ and Cu2+ to regulate in-situ grown carbon nanotubes as an
On Earth, plants and ocean microbes use sunlight to turn carbon dioxide, or CO2, into sugars for energy. Humans don’t have that ability, at least not yet. On Mars, there aren’t plants and oceans, but there is an abundance of CO2. NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge invited the public to come up with ways to convert
By Kenneth Richard A new study suggests British Columbia (Canada) relative sea levels remained 10 meters higher than they are today until they fell to their present levels in the last ~1800 years. Two other new studies suggest sea levels were still 0.8 to 1 meter higher than today during the Medieval Warm Period. After
By Ruchi Sharma et al. Highlights NENP as a metal-free heterogeneous catalyst and electrocatalyst for CO2 utilization. NENP catalyses the synthesis of cyclic carbonates without using a co-catalyst. Retention of 89.8 % of initial activity and high selectivity even after 5 cycles. NENP reduces CO2 electrochemically to produce ethanol, a C2 product with 68 %
By Mark Mills From materials and batteries to manufacturing, calculating the real carbon cost of EVs is just getting started Investors and politicians embracing a vision of an all-electric car future believe that path will significantly reduce global carbon dioxide emissions. That’s far from clear. A growing body of research points to the likelihood that
A new study led by Cornell University describes an important step towards engineering crops for higher yields by improving photosynthesis. It is estimated that by 2050, farmers will need to grow 50% more food for a population of 9 billion people, but on a limited amount of arable land. Researchers are working to insert elements
By the University of Bristol A new study predicts that any sea level rise in the world’s most southern continent will be countered by an increase in snowfall, associated with a warmer Polar atmosphere. Using modern methods to calculate projected changes to sea levels, researchers discovered that the two ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica
By Ricarda Dziadek, Fausto Ferraccioli and Karsten Gohl Abstract Geothermal heat flow in the polar regions plays a crucial role in understanding ice-sheet dynamics and predictions of sea level rise. Continental-scale indirect estimates often have a low spatial resolution and yield largest discrepancies in West Antarctica. Here we analyse geophysical data to estimate geothermal heat
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