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Streamflow records from 19,000 catchments show that a drying atmosphere does not translate evenly into river-flow deficits – a finding that argues for catchment-specific drought planning.
EU member states have approved a stronger price brake for the carbon market for buildings and road transport due to start in 2028 – and a week later, EU leaders asked the Commission to reassess the whole system, without postponing it.
A measurement campaign at 65 German biogas plants suggests the sector emits around twice as much methane as the national inventory implies – but most of the loss is concentrated in a few plants and can be prevented.
A significant share of biogas systems at US wastewater treatment plants leak so much methane that the climate benefit of the renewable energy they produce disappears entirely, according to a new study in Nature Sustainability.
A comparative study of Chinese and European wastewater treatment plants shows that indirect emissions and energy use are the critical obstacles to cutting their carbon footprint.