The world's largest fully solar-powered boat, "Turanor PlanetSolar," docked in New York on Tuesday during a mission to study the effects of climate change on the Gulf Stream current.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

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Energy efficiency promises to cut emissions, reduce dependence on foreign fuel, and mitigate climate change. As such, governments around the world are spending tens of billions of dollars to support energy-efficiency ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

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The study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology by researchers at IIASA and Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) calculates the climate impact for pa ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

After Cuban scientists studied the effects of climate change on this island's 3,500 miles (5,630 kilometers) of coastline, their discoveries were so alarming that officials didn't share the results with the ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 12, 2013 5 / 5 (8) 22

In two different studies, three researchers from the University of Maryland's Department of Geographical Sciences publish groundbreaking findings on the environmental impact of globalization, production and trade at both ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 10, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Researchers at the University of Southampton have proposed an answer to the long-running debate as to how stable the Earth system is.

Biology - Ecology

Jun 10, 2013 3.8 / 5 (15) 9 |

Researchers are studying precociously mature dwarf males for ways to selectively breed farmed salmon that better withstand higher ocean temperatures.

Biology - Ecology

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The amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) released into the atmosphere as a result of human activities is cause for concern as evidence of major climate change begins to mount. A European research team spanning ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 07, 2013 4.1 / 5 (9) 14

A gene expression study of grapevine berries grown in different Italian vineyards has highlighted genes that help buffer the plants against environmental change and may explain the different quality performances of grapevine ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 06, 2013 not rated yet 0

Growth in global agricultural production is expected to slow in the coming decade, the UN food agency and the OECD said in a joint report Thursday, warning threats to food security remain.

Biology - Other

Jun 06, 2013 not rated yet 1

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that a lake on an island off the coast of Queensland has been relatively untouched by changes in climate for the past 7000 years, and has so far also resisted ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 04, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 4 |

If the climate continues to evolve as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United States stands little to no chance of satisfying its current biofuel goals, according to a new study ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 03, 2013 3.5 / 5 (8) 18 |

Marine conservationists from Plymouth University, and the Universidad Federal da Bahia in Brazil, have spent more than 17 years analysing the diversity and density of coral colonies off the coast of South ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 31, 2013 4.4 / 5 (7) 14 |

(Phys.org) —A Monash University ecologist is assisting in an international study into birdlife in an environmentally threatened area of China.

Biology - Ecology

May 31, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Humans, like other animals, compare things. We care not only how well off we are, but whether we are better or worse off than others around us, or than we were last year. New research by scientists at the University of Bristol ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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