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Study Explores Trade-Offs Between Climate Mitigation and Food Security

IIASA scientists partnered with colleagues in Japan to explain the effects of strict climate mitigation policies on food security. The team identified smart and comprehensive climate policy designs where the danger of food-security for hundreds of millions of people could be solved at a reasonable cost.

14 May 2019

Glowing Plants Could Light the Way for Sustainable Buildings

Collaboration between MIT architect and chemical engineer could be at the center of new sustainable infrastructure for buildings.

10 May 2019

Researchers Discover Enzyme that Catalyzes Methane-to-Methanol Conversion Reaction

Methanotrophic bacteria have attracted great attention among scientists for their potential to remove methane from the environment and transform it into usable fuel.

10 May 2019

Study Sheds Light on Wintertime Air Pollution

The processes that cause ozone pollution in the summer can also cause the formation of wintertime air pollution, according to a new research from scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA, in collaboration with the University of Utah.

10 May 2019

Researchers Move a Step Closer to a More Sustainable Way of Making Hydrogen Fuel

A new study at the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies has enabled researchers to move a step closer to a cleaner, cheaper, and more sustainable method of producing hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight.

9 May 2019

Global Plan for New Rating System and Universal Standards for Space Waste Mitigation

Space is becoming more and more crowded, even as man’s societal reliance on space technology is more than ever before.

8 May 2019

Study Examines Environmental and Socioeconomic Interactions Within and Across Borders to Understand the Trading of Natural Resources

Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have penned two papers that have begun to challenge a more basic, input/output view of natural resources in support of a method that better reflected the way the world actually works.

2 May 2019

Affordable Bioelectrodes Operate in Oxygen-Free Environment for Efficient Energy Conversion

Efficient and cheap energy conversion devices are developed using proteins that take part in the process of photosynthesis.

29 Apr 2019

Chalmers Researcher Facilitates Progress of Wave Power Industry

With 72% of the earth’s surface covered by the ocean, wave energy, thus, possesses a significant potential to gratify a substantial percentage of the global energy supply. The task is to decrease costs and enhance the wave energy system’s performance. In that case, the Chalmers scientist Shun-Han Yang has aided the industry to optimize their positions.

29 Apr 2019

Dow & BioLogiQ Collaborate to Develop Plant-Based Resins for Sustainable Plastics

Dow and BioLogiQ are collaborating to evaluate potential synergies between BioLogiQ’s novel NuPlastiQ® BioPolymer, a thermoplastic plant-based resin, and Dow’s industry-leading polyethylene resin portfolio, in an effort to explore enhanced sustainable plastic options.

From BiologiQ, Inc. 24 Apr 2019