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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is targeting 100 million electric cars on the roads by 2030 in order to avoid potentially damaging global warming. When you bear in mind that just 1.26 million electric cars were sold worldwide in 2015 is this out of the question or a possibility?
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Inorganic Chemistry Division has published a Provisional Recommendation for the names and symbols of the recently discovered superheavy elements 113, 115, 117, and 118.
The provisional names for 115, 117 and 118 -- originally proposed by the discovering team from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia; the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee -- will now undergo a statutory period for public review before the names and symbols can be finally approved by the IUPAC Council.
Nearly all U.S. regions stand to gain economic benefits from power plant carbon standards that set moderately stringent emission targets and allow a high level of compliance flexibility, according to a new study by scientists from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Syracuse University, Resources for the Future, and the Harvard Forest, Harvard University as a project of the Science Policy Exchange.
Una nueva investigación muestra que los peces jóvenes están comiendo pequeñas piezas de plástico en lugar de su comida regular, con consecuencias potencialmente devastadoras. Un estudio publicado este mes en la revista "Science", explica que las crías de perca juvenil parecen estar comiendo microplásticos en lugar de sus habituales fuentes de alimentos, como el zooplancton.
The renewable energy revolution is in full swing, writes Jeremy Leggett, with costs falling to new lows, deployment of wind and solar surging to unprecedented highs, and confidence ebbing away from fossil fuels. But global warming is also accelerating, with global temperature records broken every month for a year. Will the energy transition happen in time to avert catastrophe?
Casi el 15 por ciento de los estados de Estados Unidos sufre de una moderada a una grave sequía, lo que hace que la conservación del agua sea crítica en algunas partes del país. ¿Cómo podemos convencer a la gente de ahorrar más agua?
Esa es la pregunta que los profesores de la Universidad de Instituto de Alimentos y Ciencias Agrícolas de Florida han puesto a prueba.
