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Pusan National University Researchers Develop Efficient Sodium-Ion Battery Anode for Energy Storage

Lithium is expensive and limited, necessitating the development of efficient energy storage systems beyond lithium-ion batteries. Sodium is a promising candidate.

5 Jan 2023

Best of Both Worlds: New Elastic and Durable Crosslinked Anion Exchange Membranes

Hydrogen fuel cells are an efficient alternative to fossil fuels since they only release water while producing energy. Their key component is the polymeric membrane serving as an electrolyte as well as a separator.

5 Jan 2023

Lettuce Takes Up Toxic Additives from Tyre Wear

Wind, sewage sludge, and waste water carry tyre wear particles from roads onto farmland. A new lab study shows: The pollutants contained in the particles could get into the vegetables grown there.

5 Jan 2023

More Efficient Device Developed for Solar Water Splitting

At the University of Michigan, a new type of solar panel that has been developed has achieved around 9% efficiency. This panel helps convert water into hydrogen and oxygen—copying a vital step in natural photosynthesis.

5 Jan 2023

New Technique to Help Understand the Climate Crisis

A new technique has been utilized by scientists from the UK, the USA, and Bremen to evaluate the rate at which the sequestration of organic carbon was done in marine sediments at the time of the Earth’s Neogene period.

5 Jan 2023

Researchers Investigate How Supply Chains can be Made More Environmentally Sustainable

When we consider the supply chain, we typically think of factories, ships, trucks, and warehouses. Yet, the customer side is equally important, especially in efforts to make our distribution networks more sustainable.

5 Jan 2023

Global Warming Could Lead to a Shutdown of the Ocean Deep Circulation

Climate-driven heating of seawater is causing a slowdown of deep circulation patterns in the Atlantic and Southern oceans, according to University of California, Irvine Earth system scientists, and if this process continues, the ocean's ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will be severely limited, further exacerbating global warming.

5 Jan 2023

Warming Climate Likely to Increase the Number and Intensity of Tropical Cyclones in the North Atlantic

A warming climate will increase the number of tropical cyclones and their intensity in the North Atlantic, potentially creating more and stronger hurricanes, according to simulations using a high-resolution, global climate model.

5 Jan 2023

Comprehensive Climate Risk Insurance Accelerates Economic Recovery After Hurricanes

In the US, hurricanes caused more than $400 billion in direct economic losses over the historical period 1980–2014, with losses peaking at more than $150 billion in 2005, the year when hurricane Katrina made landfall.

5 Jan 2023

Methane Emissions Offset Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Uptake in Coastal Ecosystems

Bladderwrack in the Baltic Sea emits significant amounts of methane, which, to some extent, can offset the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by these algae.

5 Jan 2023

The Limitations of Estimating Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity

A study performed by Robbin Bastiaansen, Anna von der Heydt, the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Peter Ashwin, the University of Exeter, UK, indicates that it could still be rather difficult to precisely determine the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity in complex climate models.

4 Jan 2023