20th of May 2013 04:43 GMT
A team of researchers writing in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change document how climate change will affect heat-related mortality rates in major urban areas. Focusing on Manhattan, New York and piecing together several models, these specialists reached the conclusion that, because of global warming, the ...
17th of May 2013 15:41 GMT
Harvesting green energy sources is by far one of the best ways to improve on the energy industry's current ecological footprint. In an attempt to promote sustainability and make the practice of harvesting solar power a more affordable one, a team of Australian researchers have figured out a way to print solar ...
17th of May 2013 04:04 GMT
Between the years 2003 and 2009, glaciers scattered all around the world dropped a whopping 260 gigatons of water on a yearly basis, argues a research whose findings were published in today's issue of the journal Science. According to the researchers who looked into this issue, the amount of water lost by thes...
16th of May 2013 07:44 GMT
A new research paper documents the possibility of using raw cotton in order to clean up any accidental spills that might occur while the oil industry is busy carrying on with its working agenda. The study, made available to the public in the latest issue of the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, ...
15th of May 2013 15:21 GMT
This May 14, a team of University of Bristol researchers went public with the findings of their investigation into how climate change and global warming are affecting tropical coral reefs. These specialists maintain that, unless measures to restrict greenhouse gases-related warming of oceanic waters are soon taken,...