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Risk of Multiple Climate Tipping Points Escalates above 1.5°C Global Warming

TEHRAN (ANA)- Multiple climate tipping points could be triggered if global temperature rises beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, a new study by the Stockholm University showed.

News ID: 1970 Publish Date : 2023/03/24

Scientists Spin Food Processing Waste into “Gold”

TEHRAN (ANA)- New research by the Ohio State University suggests that there is potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make money by finding a second life for industrial food-processing waste products such as potato peels, fried dough particles, and cheese whey.

News ID: 1916 Publish Date : 2023/03/12

Wastewater Sector Emits Nearly Twice as Much Methane as Previously Thought

TEHRAN (ANA)- Municipal wastewater treatment plants emit nearly double the amount of methane into the atmosphere than scientists previously believed, according to new research from Princeton University.

News ID: 1865 Publish Date : 2023/04/03

True Extent of Global Warming Hidden, Scientists Warn

TEHRAN (ANA)- Increasingly tempestuous winds have been sweeping dust from Earth's deserts into our air at an increasing rate since the mid-1800s but new data provided by scientists at the University of California suggests that this uptick has masked up to eight percent of current global warming.

News ID: 1452 Publish Date : 2023/01/28

Significant Reductions in Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Possible

TEHRAN (ANA)- A team of researchers from McGill University estimated that total global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the life cycle of gas-fired power is 3.6 billion tonnes each year, saying that this amount could be reduced by as much as 71% if a variety of mitigation options were used around the world.

News ID: 1380 Publish Date : 2023/01/19

Study Finds Self-Driving Cars Computers as Huge Driver of Global Carbon Emissions

TEHRAN (ANA)- A new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that if autonomous vehicles are widely adopted, hardware efficiency will need to advance rapidly to keep computing-related emissions in check.

News ID: 1368 Publish Date : 2023/01/19

Climate Change Could Cause 'Disaster' in World's Oceans

TEHRAN (ANA)- Climate-driven heating of seawater is causing a slowdown of deep circulation patterns in the Atlantic and Southern oceans, according to University of California, Irvine Earth system scientists, and if this process continues, the ocean's ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will be severely limited, further exacerbating global warming.

News ID: 1320 Publish Date : 2023/01/12

Extreme Weather in 2022 Showed Global Impact of Climate Change

TEHRAN (ANA)- Climate change amped up weather extremes around the globe, smashing temperature records, sinking river levels to historic lows and raising rainfall to devastating highs.

News ID: 1257 Publish Date : 2023/01/06

Producing Fertilizer without Carbon Emissions

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers at ETH Zurich showed how nitrogen fertilizer could be produced more sustainably which is necessary not only to protect the climate, but also to reduce dependence on imported natural gas and to increase food security.

News ID: 1193 Publish Date : 2022/12/26

Iran Gains Self-Sufficiency in Designing, Production of Weather Simulation Chamber

TEHRAN (ANA)- A knowledge-based company active in production of advanced equipment succeeded in manufacturing a weather simulator chamber to simulate the atmospheric and environmental conditions.

News ID: 1169 Publish Date : 2022/12/25

Fossil-Sorting Robots to Help Researchers Study Oceans, Climate

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers at North Carolina State University developed and demonstrated a robot capable of sorting, manipulating, and identifying microscopic marine fossils.

News ID: 1161 Publish Date : 2022/12/22

Ancient Warming Event Likely Triggered by Changes in Earth's Orbit

TEHRAN (ANA)- Changes in Earth's orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago, researchers at Penn State found.

News ID: 1159 Publish Date : 2022/12/24

Whales Could Be Valuable Carbon Sink, Say Scientists

TEHRAN (ANA)- While many efforts have focused on planting trees or restoring wetlands, researchers at the University of Alaska advocate for the importance of understanding the carbon sequestration potential of the planet's largest animals -- whales.

News ID: 1153 Publish Date : 2022/12/23

Warmer Arctic Ocean Leads to More Snowfall in Northern Eurasia

TEHRAN (ANA)- A new model developed by researchers at Hokkaido University explains that water evaporating from the Arctic Ocean due to a warming climate is transported South and can lead to increased snowfall in Northern Eurasia in late autumn and early winter.

News ID: 1044 Publish Date : 2022/12/12

Old-Growth Trees More Drought Tolerant than Younger Ones

TEHRAN (ANA)- A new analysis by the University of Michigan of more than 20,000 trees on five continents shows that old-growth trees are more drought tolerant than younger trees in the forest canopy and may be better able to withstand future climate extremes.

News ID: 1040 Publish Date : 2022/12/11