climate change Articles
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What’s Next for Methane Capture?
Preventing escape of methane gas from natural and human activities is a vital part of strategies to slow climate change In the United States, local, state, and federal agencies — together with leaders in the private sector — have implemented several voluntary and regulatory efforts to reduce methane emissions. Gas emissions from human activities add to the greenhouse effect and ...
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How climate change fuels algae blooms in the 21st century
Algae are a common occurrence in all marine and freshwater ecosystems, and they play an important role in both coastal fisheries production and ecosystem function. However, they can also lead to major environmental problems. Algae blooms occur when algae grow rapidly and form dense, visible patches on the surface of bodies of water. While some algae blooms are harmless, others can release toxins ...
By LG Sonic
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How digitalization drives efficiency for today’s desalination plants
Climate change and water scarcity are among the top challenges the world is facing, and the water sector has a double challenge in the face of climate change. First, there’s the need to be more efficient in water extraction and distribution by reducing energy consumption and prioritizing the use of clean energy. Second, there’s the need to encourage more efficient water use for both ...
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Improving Water Security in Water-Stressed Cities
Decentralized water and wastewater treatment can prevent taps from running dry in cities like Monterrey In July of 2022, a water crisis fueled by climate change in Monterrey, Mexico, led to taps running dry in the city, which has a population of around 5 million people. As a result, desperate residents, whose water supply was then restricted to just a few hours a day at best, were forced to ...
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The six water technology trends for 2023, according to Idrica
Issues such as climate change and population growth will encourage the implementation of new technologies. Pre-emption and prevention, security, reuse, process automation, optimization and planning are the main technological challenges ahead for water management in 2023, according to Idrica. In 2025, around 3.5 billion people will be living in water-scarce areas, while water demand is set ...
By Idrica
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How Can Technology Help Address Water Scarcity?
November last year saw the COP27 climate change conference take place in Egypt, with the water crisis taking centre stage on the official agenda of the event for the first time ever… and not without excellent reason. Some 3.6 billion people face inadequate access to freshwater resources during at least one month per year right now, according to official UN figures… which also show ...
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World “On The Cusp” Of Crossing 1.5 C Degree Threshold
A new artificial intelligence-led study has suggested that global warming will reach 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial averages in the early 2030s, no matter how much emissions rise or fall over the next ten years. Carried out by the University of Stanford and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, the research indicated that current emissions goals – ...
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Maximize Your Air Quality Budget in a Post-COVID World
A Guide to Leveraging Low-Cost Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring 2.0 Maximize Your Air Quality Budget in a Post-COVID World 2020 was a turbulent year for nearly every corner of the world, and the air quality management space is no exception. Due to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, government agencies around the world are facing reduced budgets for 2021 and beyond. At the same time, ...
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Water Technology: Five advantages of implementation
Water technology has gone from being an idea of the future to a real need. The current global water situation requires intelligent solutions which can tackle the challenges that lie ahead. Against this backdrop, the use of ad-hoc software multiplies the efficiency of water utilities. By water technology, we refer to innovative solutions designed to improve the management of all or part of the ...
By Idrica
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Water Trends in pre-emption and prevention for 2023: Responding to extreme events
According to UN data, water and climate-related events have accounted for half of the human and economic damage caused by disasters over the last fifty years. Figures show that, during this period, weather, climate and water hazards accounted for 45% of recorded deaths (1.3 million people) and 74% of global economic losses. World Meteorological Organization studies have also put droughts, storms ...
By Idrica
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Public tender - Incentives for NOO 2022 R&D Projects
The aim of the public tender is to contribute to the green transition, to increasing investments in research and development, increasing productivity (including material and energy productivity) and the competitiveness of the economy by co-financing at least 95 research and development projects of consortia of companies focused on the transition to a circular economy, including prevention and ...
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2023 Watershed Monitoring Trends
Amongst political unrest, COVID-19, and the continued threat of climate change, 2023 is shaping up to be yet another unprecedented year. As we look to the horizon, one thing is guaranteed, there will be no shortage of challenges to overcome in the environmental monitoring industry. To gain better insight into the evolving landscape, we combined global data and market research to synthesize ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Analysis of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Products
The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) powered by renewable energy to produce valuable chemicals and fuels has become a promising strategy for using renewable energy to produce fuels and chemicals. The process can occur under ambient temperature and normal pressure conditions. This approach potentially aids in mitigating the climate change problem by initiating a carbon-neutral cycle. ...
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NMR Investigations in Coastal Ecosystems by Darya Morozov
Coastal ecosystems play an important role in interfacing between marine and terrestrial environments. These systems host complex dynamic processes associated with strong physical gradients between freshwater and saltwater, ground water and surface water, and between high and low permeability soils. Therefore, the structure and stability of coastal environments have a critical impact on ...
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Water Trends in automation for 2023: Improving operability and management
The water sector is set to play a pivotal role in combating climate change, with enhanced water management benefiting a whole host of areas such as health, energy, agriculture, food security and people’s livelihoods in general (UNESCO). Process automation is one of the most important trends for 2023 and is one of the promising alternatives hailed to improve the current water scenario. ...
By Idrica
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Steps toward cleaner air: A closer look at the air quality and climate benefits of renewable energy
TL;DR — Renewable energy is becoming an increasingly inexpensive, popular, and viable energy source. The negative impacts that non-renewable energy sources like fossil fuels have on air quality, climate change, and environmental health have become increasingly clear. By increasingly relying on renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, we can reap a wide variety of benefits ...
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UK Wastewater Infrastructure Isn’t Working
While sewage pollution is at a crisis point in the UK, new treatment technologies can turn that around Pollution from sewage in the United Kingdom has become extreme and is made worse by climate change and the sheer scale of the problem. Discharges are permitted into U.K. water bodies when stormwater threatens to overwhelm water systems. Without the releases, water systems could overflow and ...
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Geographic information systems, key to efficient water management
The supply of drinking water is one of the greatest challenges currently facing a large part of the world’s regions. According to the latest data published by the UN, water losses in water distribution networks are a major concern, with Non-Revenue Water or non-billed water accounting for the supply of water to almost 200 million people. Digital transformation plays a major role in solving ...
By Idrica
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Seven ambitious missions to transform the future of water security
Currently, 1.42 billion people live in high or extremely high water-vulnerable areas. Water security is deeply intertwined with climate change, and without immediate and bold action, water availability will worsen. With a growing population, global water demand is projected to increase by 20–30% per year by 2050, which could leave even more people water insecure. Populations at the highest ...
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ChatGPT on What an ESG Program is
I asked ChatGPT for a paragraph on what an ESG program is. It gave me 3 paragraphs which means ChatGPT is more humanlike than we thought. However, what it said was brilliant. If you asked ESG experts what an ESG program is, I bet 50% of the experts would start by saying it’s all about investing. This is a very serious problem. How is it that ESG experts aren’t talking about ways ...
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