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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Apr-2025 05:08 ET (29-Apr-2025 09:08 GMT/UTC)

Social media can help track species as climate changes

University of Exeter
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to climate change, new research shows.

Journal: Ecology and Evolution
Funder: Research England

How industrial waste gases could replace fossil fuels in everyday consumer products

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Industrial waste gases, long seen as a major contributor to climate change, could soon be captured and repurposed into everyday household products such as shampoo, detergent, and even fuel.

Journal: Journal of CO2 Utilization

Advancing sorghum science: drought-resilient crop for Spain's agricultural future

Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

- Sorghum is an increasingly important crop for animal and human nutrition, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, due to its natural resistance to drought and high temperatures.

- CRAG researchers have identified the molecular mechanisms responsible for drought resistance in sorghum and developed tools that could be used in biotechnological applications.

- These advances could combat the effects of climate change, reduce dependence on imports and improve food security for human consumption.

Journal: New Phytologist
Funder: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, European Research Council, Generalitat de Catalunya, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

No countries on track to meet all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new analysis reveals complex linkages among the United Nations’ (UN’s) 17 Sustainable Development Goals—which include such objectives as gender equality and quality education—and finds that no country is on track to meet all 17 goals by the target year of 2030. Alberto García-Rodríguez of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on March 12, 2025.

Journal: PLOS One

New study shows how climate change affects rain and floods

Vienna University of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change may lead to more precipitation and more intense floods. A new study shows that to understand the details of this relationship, it is important to distinguish between different types of rainfall and flood events - namely, between short-term events that occur on a time scale of hours, and longer-term events that last several days. In each case, climate change has a different impact.

Journal: Nature

Edenhofer and Rockström outline pathway to more global climate finance in Nature

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Reports and Proceedings

In their own interest, “coalitions of the willing” of industrialised countries should now step up climate finance for developing countries. The aim: to make their climate commitments, which must be updated in 2025 according to the Paris Agreement, as ambitious as possible. Proven CO₂ reductions in the Global South should be rewarded with massive public grants – which would be highly profitable for donor countries due to avoided climate damage. This is the message of an article published today in the top journal Nature, co-authored by Ottmar Edenhofer and Johan Rockström, scientific directors of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Journal: Nature

Study finds cities that conducted greenhouse gas emissions inventories moved needle toward reduction

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Kansas led a study in which they gathered emissions data from hundreds of US cities that either conducted a greenhouse gas emissions inventory, or reported they employed sustainability staff. The cities that conducted an inventory showed a statistically significant reduction in emissions between 2010 and 2015, while those with sustainability staff did not. Little research had previously been done to gauge effects of such measures and show that addressing emissions is meaningful, researchers argue.

Journal: Cities

Food systems, climate change, and air pollution: Unveiling the interactions and solutions

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new review in Engineering explores the intricate links among food systems, climate change, and air pollution. It reveals how these elements impact one another and details strategies to mitigate their effects and build a more sustainable future for food security and the environment.

Journal: Engineering

UK’s wealthiest citizens may be rich with climate-positive potential

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

UK’s wealthiest citizens can invest in green tech, voice climate concerns and sow sustainable seeds among their networks to accelerate the country’s pursuit of net-zero carbon emissions, according to survey data published February 26, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Hettie Moorcroft from the University of Bath and colleagues. However, members of this population are unmotivated to sacrifice quality of life for carbon savings.

Journal: PLOS Climate

AMS Science Preview: Data deserts, energy costs, malaria prediction

American Meteorological Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research published in early online format in journals of the American Meteorological Society discusses topics including increasing energy costs due to climate change in Texas; increasing atmospheric rivers; malaria predication; and whether global warming could be reversed in certain parts of the world if greenhouse gas emissions go down.

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