Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects, where towns and cities are warmer than surrounding rural areas, have been reviewed in new research into cool pavements, which has found that reflective pavements can reduce temperatures […]
Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet NASA’s Global Climate Change website provides evidence of a changing planet. Among the multiplicity of articles, graphics and multimedia is a series of revealing before-and-after pictures. Begun […]
In American field trials, researchers found that plots planted with neonicotinoid-treated soybeans contained more slugs, fewer beetle predators and had 5% lower yields. The insecticide may be reducing the beetles’ effectiveness as a […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced its priorities for 2015 in a strategy paper that outlines goals for now until 2018. Specifically, it maintains that it “must continue our focus on urban, […]
It has taken less than eight months for humanity to use up nature’s entire budget for the year and go into ecological overshoot, according to data from Global Footprint Network, – last year it […]
Mars Incorporated released its fourth annual Principles in Action Summary today. A few highlights include: Mars is now the world’s largest purchaser of cocoa from certified sources. A new Deforestation Policy launched in […]
While national and international Climate Change policies are mired in a bog of ideological obfuscation, cities all around the world have quietly been getting on with things. In the UK, Bristol is the […]
Tesla Motors Inc. will prepare multiple sites but won’t make a decision about the location of its first battery “gigafactory” until the end of the year, the company’s chief Elon Musk said yesterday […]
Early-life exposure to air pollution causes changes in the brain that are seen in humans with autism and schizophrenia, according to new research from the University of Rochester. Researchers exposed mice during their […]
A California research team has created a coating for roof tiles that attacks pollutants linked to urban smog. The University of California, Riverside, team led by engineering professor David Cocker found that a […]