Reforestation and afforestation are two essential components of natural climate solutions, which refer to actions that aim to mitigate climate change and enhance carbon sequestration through nature-based approaches. A new analysis describes steps planners can take to make forests more effective “natural climate solutions.” To limit the frequency and severity of droughts,
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Nigeria is set to partner with the Republic of China in an effort to build first of its kind baseline Interferometry. The intended baseline Interferometry will be used to monitor earthquake and volcanic eruption in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. A flash news report from the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) on Friday disclosed
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A specialist team from CAN Geotechnical has been using rope access to work at a height of 30 metres (ten storeys) on Brighton’s chalk cliffs, between the marina and Saltdean, making the area safe after repeated rockfalls affected use of the Undercliff Walk. CAN Geotechnical Project Manager Andy Pope said: “Our
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For many technology enthusiasts, the metaverse—a virtual 3D environment in which the physical and digital worlds converge—has the potential to transform almost every facet of human life, from work to education to entertainment. New Cornell research shows the metaverse could have environmental benefits, too: lowering the global surface temperature by up
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Researchers at NTNU have found a way to make gold nanoparticles with a uniform size and shape, opening up the possibility of finding more effective photocatalysts When organic pollutants such as dyes, agricultural chemicals, and pharmaceuticals enter waterways all around the world, they can harm the environment and human health –
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Water and wastewater utilities are executing ambitious decarbonization goals, according to a new survey of 100 utilities in North America and Europe. The survey finds that 75% of respondents intend to achieve greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals by 2040 or earlier. 48% of respondents have set a net-zero emissions goal,
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The Midwestern United States has lost 57.6 billion tons of topsoil due to farming practices over the past 160 years, and the rate of erosion, even following the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s guidelines, is still 25 times higher than the rate at which topsoil forms. Yet, we need not despair:
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New research provides clear evidence of a human “fingerprint” on climate change and shows that specific signals from human activities have altered the temperature structure of Earth’s atmosphere. Differences between tropospheric and lower stratospheric temperature trends have long been recognized as a fingerprint of human effects on climate. This fingerprint, however,
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Recent extended droughts in the Horn of Africa that left 4.35 million people in need of humanitarian assistance would not have occurred without climate change, a study has found. Since October 2020, large parts of Eastern Africa have been experiencing extended dry conditions followed by short intense rainfall events that often
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Soil crusts, also known as biological soil crusts, are communities of microscopic organisms that live on the surface of the soil in arid and semi-arid environments. In the arid regions of the American Southwest, an unseen world lies beneath our feet. Biocrusts, or biological soil crusts, are communities of living organisms.
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