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Warm Waters Marching South Threaten the East Antartic Ice Sheet

New research by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, in partnership with the University of Southampton in the UK, has revealed for the first time how changes in Southern Ocean circulation are affecting the East Antarctic ice sheet.

3 Aug 2022

Global Deployment of Daigas Group’s Onsite Hydrogen Generation Technology with Hyundai Rotem Company

Daigas Gas and Power Solution Co., Ltd. (“DGPS”), a 100% subsidiary of Osaka Gas Co., Ltd., has established an expanded business collaboration for onsite hydrogen generator technology with Hyundai Rotem Company (“HRC”), an affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, allowing HRC to sell the generators outside South Korea.

From Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. 3 Aug 2022

Volvo Group Starts Process to Establish Plant for Battery Production in Sweden

To meet the growing demand for battery electric heavy-duty vehicles and machines, the Volvo Group has initiated the process to establish a large-scale production plant for battery cells in Sweden.

3 Aug 2022

Octopus Energy and Nest Form Joint Venture with GLIL to Invest £400m in World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Octopus Energy Group’s generation business, one of Europe’s largest investors in renewable energy, has worked with Nest to take a stake in the Hornsea One Wind Farm, the world’s largest operational offshore wind farm, making a positive impact with UK pension savers’ money.

3 Aug 2022

The Effects of Unified Power Generation and Storage Facilities

About 25% of the world’s CO2 emissions come from the power sector, and the Paris Agreement’s target of keeping global temperature rise below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels must be achieved by decarbonization of the total energy system.

2 Aug 2022

Climate Change Could Become Catastrophic Even at Modest Levels of Warming

Global warming could become “catastrophic” for humanity if temperature increases are worse than anticipated or trigger cascades of events yet to be considered, or indeed both.

2 Aug 2022

Researchers Receive Funding to Build a System that Selectively Removes and Destroys PFAS

The National Alliance for Water Innovation of the US Department of Energy has given engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago just over $1 million to develop a system that selectively eliminates and annihilates poly- and perfluorinated substances, also known as PFAS and referred to as “forever chemicals,” from industrial and municipal wastewaters.

2 Aug 2022

Study Finds More than 60% Decline in Global Forest Area Per Capita

Over the past 60 years, the global forest area has declined by 81.7 million hectares, a loss that contributed to the more than 60% decline in global forest area per capita.

2 Aug 2022

Survey Explores the Awareness of Climate Change-Related Risks During Outdoor Sports Among Texas Coaches

A survey of coaches and athletic officials in Texas indicates many of them would be wise to think harder about the risks their students face as the climate changes, according to Rice University researchers who conducted the statewide study.

2 Aug 2022

Disposable Paper Battery: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Single-Use Electronics

Researchers at the Cellulose & Wood Materials Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have been working on a disposable paper battery that could reduce the environmental impact of single-use electronics.

By David J. Cross 1 Aug 2022

The Impact of Economic Crisis and Prosperity on Green Purchasing

A cross-sectional study was conducted by the Financial Economics II and Economics and Business departments at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country to determine whether economic peaks and troughs have different effects on internal (consumer motivations, attitudes, and perceived effectiveness) and external (environmental information and marketing) factors that affect green behavior, such as green activism and green purchasing.

1 Aug 2022

Analyzing 56-Million-Year-Old Sediments to Help Understand Global Warming

Sediments in the Tremp-Graus basin (on the border between Lleida and Huesca) that date back 56 million years have been investigated by the Department of Geology at the UPV/EHU.

1 Aug 2022

Study Emphasizes the Need for Buildings to Install More Efficient Home-Heating Technologies

Direct fossil fuel consumption by buildings, burned in water heaters, furnaces, and other heating sources, account for nearly 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

1 Aug 2022

MIT Mobility Initiative Undergoes Profound Transformation with New Technologies

Launched in 2020, the MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) is a unique cross-Institute initiative aimed at convening key stakeholders to drive innovation, while providing unbiased strategic direction to guide a deeper collective understanding of mobility challenges, and shape a mobility system that is sustainable, safe, clean, and accessible.

29 Jul 2022

Restoring "Blue Carbon" Habitats May not be the Nature-Based Climate Solution, Experts Say

Restoring coastal vegetation – so called 'blue carbon' habitats – may not be the nature-based climate solution it is claimed to be, according to a new study.

29 Jul 2022