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Aviation’s present-day contribution to human-induced global warming is 4% and will increase over the next 30 years should pre-Covid growth resume
Major new study reveals that aviation could consume up to one-sixth of the remaining temperature budget to limit warming to 1.5 ˚C Aviation is responsible for more global warming than implied by its carbon footprint alone. According to new research published today, aviation could consume up one-sixth of the remaining temperature budget required to limit […]
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Announcing the winners of #IOPPposter 2021 competition
Enabling the global scientific community to connect virtually IOP Publishing has announced the winners of its #IOPPposter competition. Now in its second year, the poster competition, which was hosted on Twitter, opened-up a lively online discussion about the latest research in emerging areas of interest. And the winners are… Atomic and molecular – Andrea Byekwaso Biomedical engineering – Jannis Born Engineering – Tomas […]
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R&D spend essential to improve skills, create opportunity and drive science and innovation, says the Institute of Physics
Responding today to the chancellor’s comprehensive spending review, Paul Hardaker, group chief executive officer of the Institute of Physics, said: “Investing in science and innovation doesn’t just help the economy and create jobs, it helps train the next generation, develops the skills of the workforce, and allows more people to benefit from the opportunities that […]
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IOP Publishing makes abstracts openly available
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), a collaboration between publishers, infrastructure organisations, librarians, and researchers to promote the open availability of abstracts. IOPP will deposit abstracts of their scholarly communications with Crossref, the not-for-profit Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency bringing together abstracts in a common format in one searchable […]
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How has scientific agreement on the anthropogenic nature of climate change evolved in 10 years?
New research shows the scientific consensus has strengthened since 2009 Scientific support for the link between human activity and climate change has strengthened to the extent that there is now near universal agreement. Whereas in 1996, reports hedged statements with phrases such as “the balance of evidence suggests…” (Houston et al 1996), this evolved to […]
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IOP Publishing makes sustainability pledge as founding signatory of Publishing Declares
We are proud to announce that we have signed Publishing Declares, a sustainability pledge with 39 other founding signatories from across the industry led by the Publishers Association. The purpose of Publishing Declares is to raise awareness of the sustainability issues most relevant to the UK book and journal publishing industry; to aid the discovery […]
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Three new academic journals to meet growing demand for environmental research
IOP Publishing (IOPP) is launching three new, fully open access (OA) journals, extending the publisher’s Environmental Research series. IOPP’s Environmental Research Series now comprises of six titles that collectively address all major areas of environmental science. Environmental Research: Health (ERH) and Environmental Research: Climate (ERCL) will both open submissions from today. The third new journal, Environmental Research: Ecology (ERE) will open for submissions later in […]
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Congratulations to the Nobel Prize in Physics winners
IOP Publishing would like to congratulate Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi on winning the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics. They have been awarded the prize for their ground-breaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems. Syukoro Manabe and Klaus Haselmann have been jointly awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming. Giorgio Parisi was awarded […]
