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New Solar-Driven System Successfully Grows Spinach by Using Water Drawn from the Air

Using a unique hydrogel, scientists in Saudi Arabia created a solar-driven system that successfully grows spinach by using water drawn from the air while producing electricity.

2 Mar 2022

ORNL and TVA Join Forces to Advance Decarbonization Technologies

The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, are joining forces to advance decarbonization technologies from discovery through deployment through a new memorandum of understanding, or MOU.

2 Mar 2022

Climate Change Threatens Food Production

The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” released Monday night warns food production will be impacted, even with only small amount of global warming.

2 Mar 2022

Sustainable Solutions for Ghost Net Waste

A joint report by environmental not-for-profit environmental organisation TierraMar and the UNSW SMaRT Centre outlines solutions for the fight against discarded ‘ghost’ nets and other fishing marine debris in northern Australia.

2 Mar 2022

MIT Advances Toward a More Sustainable, Equitable Food System

As part of MIT's updated climate action plan, known as "Fast Forward," Institute leadership committed to establishing a set of quantitative goals in 2022 related to food, water, and waste systems that advance MIT's commitment to climate. Moving beyond the impact of campus energy systems, these newly proposed goals take a holistic view of the drivers of climate change and set the stage for new frontiers of collaborative climate work.

28 Feb 2022

Blue Summit Seeks Solutions for Australia’s Ocean Decade

Sydney will host a Blue Solutions Summit on Thursday, 10th March 2022, to elevate ocean focussed action by businesses, brands and government with a push to drive pledges to act on ocean health issues and opportunities as part of nation’s response to the current UN Ocean Decade.

25 Feb 2022

Airbus Partnership Indicates Route to Feasible Hydrogen Aircraft, says GlobalData

Airbus has long been a leading company in the hydrogen aircraft theme and is in the process of developing three new aircraft powered by hydrogen.

24 Feb 2022

EASAC Congratulates Their Colleague Sir Andy Haines on Tyler Prize for Work on Climate Change and Human Health

The 2022 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement – often regarded as the ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’ – will be awarded to British physician Sir Andy Haines, one of the first scientists to sound the alarm that changes to the natural environment have dangerous implications for human health.

23 Feb 2022

New Construction Industry Report by Patrick Parsons Reveals Poor Building Material Supply Chains are the Main Barrier to Achieving Net Zero

A new report, ‘Sustainable by design’, by engineering consultancy Patrick Parsons, based on research* with 100 senior executives of UK construction firms, reveals that despite the majority (85%) believing the industry is doing enough to reach net zero by 2050, there are significant barriers to achieving this target.

23 Feb 2022

Native Bird Studies Take Flight

The lives of the endangered southern emu-wren and one of Australia’s smallest falcons the nankeen kestrel will be better understood thanks to a strategic research investment by a leading Australian space company.

23 Feb 2022