Climate Change and Environment

A new air pollution abatement system, targeting a vast range of pollutants and contaminants present in the air we breathe, has been devised by the APA project. Multiple pilots across Europe have already confirmed the superiority of this technology to filter-based alternatives.

An EU-backed engineering company has completed construction of a 2 MW floating tidal turbine. Once installed in the Orkney Islands, it will be the world’s most powerful operational tidal turbine.

A brand-new app to help citizens monitor and identify the sources of odour pollution is being offered by the D-NOSES project. The project’s work is a welcome step forward in a field where some have argued that inaction has prevailed for too long.

An EU-backed study has found that remote monitoring using satellites and drones could make nature-based solutions better able to protect communities from devastating natural hazards.

Planting more legumes can provide human nutrition at a lower environmental cost, advise EU-backed researchers.

EU-funded researchers studied the connection between equatorial current fluctuations and changes in oxygen content. They discovered that stronger upper-ocean currents have led to higher oxygen concentrations in the equatorial Atlantic.

The EU-funded EJP SOIL programme was launched with the mission of bringing together researchers to work on climate-smart and sustainable solutions for agricultural soils.

Pollution affects us all, from the air we breathe, to the water we drink, to the food we eat. Pollution is the largest environmental cause of multiple mental and physical diseases, as well as premature deaths. In this episode of CORDIScovery, we meet three EU-funded researchers who are kicking up a stink against pollution with innovative solutions to tackle this health and environmental scourge.

New research has shown that the Greenland ice sheet will melt 60 % more by 2100 than scientists had thought, pushing rising sea levels from 10 cm to 18 cm.

Aiming to inform policies that lead to real emissions reductions, an EU-backed workshop highlighted four principles for defining CO2 removal from the atmosphere.

Two EU-backed Dutch companies have created the first offshore solar and seaweed farm in the North Sea, making solar energy production and seaweed cultivation possible in the same space.

Knowledge exchange and practice sharing are by now well-recognised and active routes to affecting change, and even more so when it comes to sustainability and environmental protection. A global programme is charting its own impactful course in this domain, empowering local governments and urban nature pioneers to lift barriers on the path to a resilient and sustainable urban future.

A new EU-backed study shows that cutting emissions to meet the 1.5 °C and 2 °C temperature targets could slow warming within 2 decades.

An EU-funded study has shown that the additives and contaminants that plastic particles leave behind in water can cause deformities in sea urchin embryos.

An EU-funded project team is developing and testing smart nets, smart scanners and other technologies to help combat overfishing.

An EU-funded study looked into the scenario framework’s successes so far and the issues that need to be tackled, providing recommendations on how to address them.

During European Hydrogen Week, stakeholders discussed the achievements of EU-funded flagship projects advancing hydrogen technology in the transport sector.

Using novel techniques, EU-backed researchers reconstruct the mass extinction that almost wiped out all species 252 million years ago.

An EU-funded project demonstrates the potential of sustainable bio-based composite applications in the aerospace, acoustics and automotive sectors.

An EU-funded project team received a research grant from an international organisation to apply their bio-inspired desalination solution to farmland in Oman.