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Use of Ionic Liquids in CO2 Conversion Technology

“Ionic liquid” (IL), which is a salt in the liquid state, is one of the most typical solvents in green chemistry. It has been extensively used in clean energy, biochemistry, new materials, green process engineering, and so on.

20 May 2019

Critical Upgrades to Argonne’s WATER Tool Help Bioenergy Developers Manage Resources

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory recently launched an upgraded version of an online computer model put together to help bioenergy developers preserve vital resources.

17 May 2019

Researchers Suggest Integration of Biodiversity and Agriculture for Ensuring Maximum Yields

Agricultural ecologists at the University of Göttingen were involved in collaborative thinking for the conservation of nature.

15 May 2019

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