New research shows how oceans can be used to help address major challenges such as the shortage of antimicrobial medicines, solutions for plastic pollution and novel enzymes for genome editing. In the past 20 years, scientists have greatly increased the number of microbial genomes they have collected from the ocean. However, using this information for […]
A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds researchers used A.I. to model waste management in more than 50,000 municipalities around the world. This model allowed the team to predict […]
Summer 2024 was the hottest on record, according to the European Union’s climate change monitoring service. A season of heatwaves, intensified by human-driven climate change, saw June to August surpass the previous record set last year, with an average temperature of 16.8°C, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in its monthly bulletin. The exceptional heat increases the likelihood that 2024 […]
The Gulf could be a “sweet spot” for climate-friendly products made with technology that captures carbon dioxide emissions from the air, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company believes. Hernan Silva, an Adnoc vice president responsible for carbon capture and storage, said the region had the potential to use its wells and reservoirs as a “storage hub” for carbon […]
A “vicious cycle” of climate change, pollution and wildfires is putting the world’s health and food supplies at risk, weather forecasters have warned. Intense heat and droughts in the first eight months of 2024 have increased the risk of fires and air pollution, the World Meteorological Organisation says. Air pollution can slash crop yields as much […]
Abu Dhabi clean energy company Masdar believes there is a “compelling business case” for using hydrogen to make air travel greener, a senior executive said on Monday. Mohammad Abdelqader El-Ramahi, Masdar’s chief green hydrogen officer, said synthetic aviation fuels were a “low-hanging fruit” in the industry. Airlines are banking on sustainable fuels to “drop in” to existing jet engines […]
Corals across the southern Arabian Gulf have been affected by a major bleaching event, raising concern among environmental experts. It is believed there is near “total bleaching” of corals from Abu Dhabi to Umm Al Quwain, with about 40 per cent of reefs bleached in Ras Al Khaimah and off Khor Fakkan. It took place when winds that have cooling capacity […]
I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the tomatoes don’t look good. Half of the plants are submerged in bins of water. Their leaves are yellow and withering. Some of the […]
The race to go green in “backbone” areas of the economy has made progress despite a mixture of “headwinds and tailwinds” since Cop28 in the UAE, says a chief executive leading the effort. Green alternatives are increasingly seen as an economic gain and not just a way of tackling climate change, said Faustine Delasalle, who leads an Industrial Transition […]
Imperial research has found limits to how quickly we can scale up technology to store gigatonnes of carbon dioxide under the Earth’s surface. Current international scenarios for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees by the end of the century rely on technologies that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the Earth’s atmosphere faster than […]
