Walking our way towards more sustainable citiesScience
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Walking our way towards more sustainable cities
By Susilawati, Monash University Malaysia in Petaling Jaya | 360info By making walkability a central component of how we design our cities, we can create vibrant, inclusive…

NARO developed a novel method to analyze ‘forever chemicals’ in the soilScience
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NARO developed a novel method to analyze ‘forever chemicals’ in the soil
By National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan Concern about the effects of PFAS are of increasing globally. Also there is no accurate method…

EVs alone won’t save us from climate catastropheClimate
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EVs alone won’t save us from climate catastrophe
By Lily Rau, Climateworks Centre, Melbourne | 360info Zero-emissions vehicles would need to hit 73 percent of new light vehicle sales by 2030 to keep transport…

Google greenhouse gas emissions grow as it powers AIClimateNews
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Google greenhouse gas emissions grow as it powers AI
San Francisco, United States (AFP) - Google, despite its goal of achieving net-zero emissions, is pumping out more greenhouse gas than before as it powers…

True scale of carbon impact from long-distance travel revealedClimateScience
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True scale of carbon impact from long-distance travel revealed
By University of Leeds The reality of the climate impact of long-distance passenger travel has been revealed in new research from the University of Leeds.…

Australian bushfire ash is deadly for aquatic lifeClimate
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Australian bushfire ash is deadly for aquatic life
By Society for Experimental Biology While the impact of wildfires on terrestrial life has been well studied, only recently has research started to examine the…

Emerging economies to drive agricultural markets amid shifting regional dynamicsNews
Adrian AlexandreJuly 2, 2024
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Emerging economies to drive agricultural markets amid shifting regional dynamics
Emerging economies are set to remain the key drivers of global agricultural market growth over the next decade, according to the newly released OECD-FAO Agricultural…

UN climate chief’s family impacted by Hurricane BerylClimateNews
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UN climate chief’s family impacted by Hurricane Beryl
Paris, France (AFP) - UN climate chief Simon Stiell has warned that the destructive consequences of global warming are "not a tomorrow problem" after Hurrican…

Most climate-vulnerable countries with highest hunger rates significantly under-represented in agrifood researchClimateNews
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Most climate-vulnerable countries with highest hunger rates significantly under-represented in agrifood research
By CABI The most climate-vulnerable countries with the highest hunger rates are significantly under-represented in agrifood research – sparking a need for urgent action and…

Dampening the “seeds” of hurricanesClimate
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Dampening the “seeds” of hurricanes
By Audrey Merket, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Increased atmospheric moisture may alter critical weather patterns over…

2023 cyclone Freddy longest on record at 36 days: UNNews
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2023 cyclone Freddy longest on record at 36 days: UN
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP) - Cyclone Freddy, which crossed the entire southern Indian Ocean before wreaking devastation on southeastern Africa last year, was the longest-lasting tropical…

Brazil’s Amazon saw worst 6 months of wildfires in 20 yrs: officialNews
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Brazil’s Amazon saw worst 6 months of wildfires in 20 yrs: official
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) - Brazil recorded 13,489 wildfires in the first half of the year in the Amazon, the worst figure in 20…

Honey bees vote to decide on nest sites – why we should listenClimate
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Honey bees vote to decide on nest sites – why we should listen
By Derek Mitchell, University of Leeds | The Conversation When people think of honey bees, they often think of classic wooden hives, in which beekeepers…

Climate change ignored? Study reveals sociology’s blind spotClimate
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Climate change ignored? Study reveals sociology’s blind spot
By Tevah Platt, Institute for Social Research - University of Michigan A recent University of Michigan study exposes a gap in sociology: a lack of…

NYUAD researchers identify unique survival strategies adopted by fish in the world’s warmest watersScience
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NYUAD researchers identify unique survival strategies adopted by fish in the world’s warmest waters
Some fish species in the Arabian Gulf’s coral reefs are more resilient to climate change than previously thought, challenging key assumptions of the “shrinking fishes…

Norway blocks unique real estate sale in Arctic SvalbardNews
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Norway blocks unique real estate sale in Arctic Svalbard
Oslo, Norway (AFP) - The Norwegian government said on Monday it had blocked a plan to sell the last privately owned piece of land on…

Novel spectroscopy technique sheds light on NOx reductionScience
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Novel spectroscopy technique sheds light on NOx reduction
By Lehigh University When power plants burn fossil fuels at high temperatures, nitrogen and oxygen molecules break apart and then recombine to form a class…

Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on Grenada island of Carriacou: US trackerNews
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Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on Grenada island of Carriacou: US tracker
Bridgetown, Barbados (AFP) - Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, slammed into the Caribbean island of Carriacou, which is part of Grenada,…

Extreme wildfires have doubled in just 20 years – here’s the scienceClimate
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Extreme wildfires have doubled in just 20 years – here’s the science
By Víctor Fernández García and Cristina Santín, The Conversation It feels like we are getting used to the Earth being on fire. Recently, more than 70 wildfires burned…

Choose where to plant energy crops wisely to minimise loss of biodiversity, says new studyScience
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Choose where to plant energy crops wisely to minimise loss of biodiversity, says new study
By University of Surrey In the fight to protect biodiversity and limit climate change, the world will reap what it sows, say researchers from the…

Caribbean braces for powerful Hurricane BerylNews
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Caribbean braces for powerful Hurricane Beryl
By Chandan KHANNA | AFP Bridgetown, Barbados - Hurricane Beryl plowed toward the southeast Caribbean late Sunday as officials warned residents to seek shelter ahead…

Seven dead after storms lash France, SwitzerlandNews
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Seven dead after storms lash France, Switzerland
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP) (UPDATED) - Ferocious storms and torrential rains that lashed France, Switzerland and Italy this weekend have left seven people dead, local authorities…

Hurricane Beryl, first of 2024 season, bears down on CaribbeanNews
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Hurricane Beryl, first of 2024 season, bears down on Caribbean
By Chandan KHANNA | AFP Bridgetown, Barbados (UPDATED) - Much of the southeast Caribbean was on alert Sunday as Beryl strengthened into the first hurricane…

Investigating newly discovered hydrothermal vents at depths of 3,000 meters off SvalbardClimateScience
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Investigating newly discovered hydrothermal vents at depths of 3,000 meters off Svalbard
By MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen Study of the Jøtul hydrothermal field, discovered in 2022, has now been published in the…
