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Adding Rocks to Fields Could Help Meet IPCC Carbon Goals

Recent research reveals that farmers around the globe could help the world meet a major carbon removal goal set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by incorporating crushed volcanic rocks into their fields.

16 Aug 2023

The Future of Hydrogen Fuel: UNSW Researchers Develop Technique to Analyse Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stability

Scientists at UNSW Sydney are working on ways to improve the efficiency and cost of hydrogen fuel cells, to increase access to clean fuel.

16 Aug 2023

Fred. Olsen Renewables Appoints ZX Measurement Services for Wind Measurements at Proposed Scawd Law Wind Farm

Renewable energy developer Fred. Olsen Renewables has contracted wind resource campaign management specialist ZX Measurement Services (ZX MS) to support their expanding onshore wind development activities in Scotland.

16 Aug 2023

UCF Researchers Develop New Technology to Recycle Greenhouse Gas into Energy, Materials

A pair of University of Central Florida researchers has developed new methods to produce energy and materials from the harmful greenhouse gas, methane.

15 Aug 2023

New Analysis Technique to Advance Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stability

Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney have set out to develop a new technique for analyzing and enhancing the stability of hydrogen fuel cells.

By David J. Cross 15 Aug 2023

Investigating the Use of Solar Radiation Management to Slow Ice Sheet Melt

The climate might theoretically be artificially impacted and cooled using so-called geoengineering methods. Bernese scientists have now researched whether it is possible to avoid the melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet by “dimming the sun” artificially.

14 Aug 2023

Climate Change is Driving Perch to Outcompete Cold-Water Fish in Arctic Lakes

Scientists analyzed the condition of ecosystems of high latitude lakes and found out that increasing of water temperature leads to increasing of population, rapid growth and early maturation of perches.

14 Aug 2023

AMAP: A Pioneering Approach to Arctic Environmental Protection

Historically, the Arctic was considered a pristine region, but scientific research spanning the last three decades has revealed the harsh reality of long-range transported pollutants reaching the Arctic from different corners of the world.

14 Aug 2023

Biden Administration Takes Big Steps to Advance Carbon Removal

The Biden administration is taking big steps to advance carbon removal – announcing funding up to $1.2 billion to establish two direct air capture hubs in Louisiana and Texas.

14 Aug 2023

Wastewater Treatment Plants Affect Species Composition of Invertebrates

Effluents from wastewater treatment plants have a dual effect: Some species disappear, while others benefit. Especially certain insect orders, such as stonefly and caddisfly larvae, are decimated.

14 Aug 2023

New Insights Into Arctic Weather and Climate Changes

A link between Arctic daily warming and the equator region, and also Atlantic storms was recently discovered by Prof. Baohua Ren and his group from the School of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

14 Aug 2023

ORNL Bootcamp Teaches Plant Managers How to Decarbonize Industrial Facilities

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a training camp to help manufacturing industries reduce energy-related carbon dioxide emissions and improve cost savings.

11 Aug 2023

New Chemical Recycling Technique Turns Low-Value Waste Plastic Into High-Value Products

Although many Americans deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics, are not recyclable using conventional mechanical recycling methods.

11 Aug 2023

Study Finds Extreme Weather Events Will Worsen as Planet Warms

Extreme weather events have dominated the news this summer, with reports on extensive wildfires in Canada; dangerous flooding in India, Japan, and the Eastern US; severe heat waves in Spain, China, the United States, and Mexico; and the hottest day ever recorded on Earth.

11 Aug 2023