The process of collecting, purifying, and disposing of polluted water requires a lot of energy. Certain pollutants, such as arsenic, occur in low concentrations, reinforcing the need for much more energy-intensive selective removal processes.
According to a new study, air pollutants resulting from the smoke of fires, that occurred as far as the southeastern United States and Canada, traveled many days and hundreds of miles to reach New York City and Connecticut, where it led to increased concentrations of pollution.
Led by the UK, future space missions, known as Truths, will help reveal the true effects of climate change.
By David J. Cross, M.A
22 Jan 2020
Scientists at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), have developed a novel method to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into pure carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen (O2) by simply harvesting sunlight.
Reducing global warming to much less than 2 °C will, at the least, need a decarbonized world by 2050 and an equivalent universal transformation of the land use and energy systems of different communities in the world.
A team of researchers has established a new method of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into oxygen (O2) and pure carbon monoxide (CO) without producing hydrogen gas (H2) and methane (CH4) as by-products.
By Sarah Moore
21 Jan 2020
Australia’s devastating drought is having a critical impact on the iconic platypus, a globally unique mammal, with increasing reports of rivers drying up and platypuses becoming stranded.
A research team at the University of Alberta has come up with several methods that can save a great deal of time when producing highly efficient carbon capture technologies.
China’s Vow to Phase Out Single-use Plastics
By David J. Cross, M.A
20 Jan 2020
GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business has been awarded a multi-million dollar project for the design, supply, construction and commissioning of onshore and offshore wind substations for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm, 12 miles off the Fife coast in Scotland.
In a world first, sugarcane farmers in far north Queensland have a new app by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, that will help them manage fertiliser use and reduce nitrogen runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef.
To avoid the most destructive consequences of climate change, the world's electric energy systems must stop producing carbon by 2050. It seems like an overwhelming technological, political, and economic challenge — but not to Nestor Sepulveda.
Flinders researchers have studied the giant cassowary’s eating, breathing and vocal structures and found a surprising missing link between two vastly different birds thought to be each other’s closest relative, the small flights South American tinamou, and the New Zealand moa.
Global adventure travel company, Exodus Travels has today announced they are one of the founding signatories of the ‘Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency’ pledge, in an effort to fight climate change and significantly reduce the growing environmental footprint of the tourism industry.
A record-breaking area of unusually warm water known as ‘the blob’ is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of around one million seabirds. Between the years 2013 and 2016, this patch of water lurke...
By David J. Cross, M.A
16 Jan 2020