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Tiny algae could help fix concrete’s dirty little climate secret – 4 innovative ways to clean up this notoriously hard to decarbonize industry
Concrete is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than aviation. Jung Getty via Getty Images Wil Srubar, University…
Rivers worldwide are running dry – here’s why and what we can do about it
Catherine E. Russell, University of Leicester Rivers around the world have been drying up recently. The Loire in…
What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise
A turbulent melt-river pours a million tons of water a day into a moulin, where it flows down…
Canada is witnessing more thunderstorms than ever before
Severe thunderstorms occur in Canada every year, bringing with them large hail, damaging downburst winds, intense rainfall and…
Warming oceans may force New Zealand’s sperm and blue whales to shift to cooler southern waters
Frédérik Saltré, Flinders University; Karen A Stockin, Massey University, and Katharina J. Peters, University of Canterbury The world’s…
The Thwaites Glacier Poses a Threat to Coastal Cities Should It Collapse. Who’s At RIsk?
The Antarctic glacier called Thwaites Glacier is nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” for a reason: should it collapse, it…
What could we do to cool the Arctic, specifically?
titoOnz / shutterstock / NASA Shaun Fitzgerald, University of Cambridge and Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge The Arctic…
What is a flash flood? A civil engineer explains
A bridge and road submerged by floodwaters from the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Jackson, Kentucky,…
New research reveals that wildfires can influence El Niño
Apostolos Voulgarakis, Technical University of Crete and Matthew Kasoar, Imperial College London Wildfire is a phenomenon that has…
How likely would Britain’s 40°C heatwave have been without climate change?
A member of the Coldstream Guards succumbs to the heat, June 2022. Lois GoBe/Shutterstock Ben Clarke, University of…