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Practicing Vigilant Inclusion is Key to Clean-Energy Transition

"To turbocharge work on saving the planet, we need effective, innovative, localized solutions, and diverse perspectives and experience at the table," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm, the keynote speaker at the 10th annual U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean Energy Symposium and Awards.

8 Dec 2021

Future Snowmelt may Have Major Societal and Economic Consequences, Study Finds

Climate change and warmer conditions have altered snow-driven extremes and previous studies predict less and slower snowmelt in the northern United States and Canada.

8 Dec 2021

Energy System Running on Wind, Water and Solar Coupled with Storage Avoids Blackouts

For some, visions of a future powered by clean, renewable energy are clouded by fears of blackouts driven by intermittent electricity supplies. Those fears are misplaced, according to a new Stanford University study that analyzes grid stability under multiple scenarios in which wind, water and solar energy resources power 100% of U.S. energy needs for all purposes.

8 Dec 2021

Plants Face Challenges in Adapting to Climate Change in Human-Dominated Landscapes

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz are contributing new insights into the challenges plants face in adapting to climate change. Prior research has long anticipated that plants might be able to respond to increasing temperatures by changing their phenology-;or the timing of seasonal life processes-;at a rate that matches the rate of climate change.

8 Dec 2021

Retreating Glaciers Could Produce Many Kilometers of New Pacific Salmon Habitat by 2100

Retreating glaciers in the Pacific mountains of western North America could produce around 6,150 kilometers of new Pacific salmon habitat by the year 2100, according to a new study.

8 Dec 2021

Agronomic Practices can Increase the Carbon Stored in Soils to Help Combat Climate Change

Increasing adoption of agricultural practices such as cover cropping, grazing management and agroforestry can increase the amount of carbon stored in soils to help combat climate change, according to a new report by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and the University of Maine.

8 Dec 2021

Microgrids and Solar Power Offer a Promising Way to Reduce Outages

Climate change is fueling more floods, droughts, wildfires, and extreme storms across the United States. As a result, aging power grids are being pushed beyond their limits, sometimes with deadly impacts. (In 2020, a series of unusual winter storms knocked the power out in Texas for days -- leading to shortages of water and heat and more than 100 deaths.)

8 Dec 2021

Engineers Create New Battery Technology as a Commercially Viable Alternative to Lithium-Ion Batteries

A sodium-sulfur battery created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin solves one of the biggest hurdles that has held back the technology as a commercially viable alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles.

8 Dec 2021

CDU Joins Project to Recycle Bromine and Antimony from Plastics

Charles Darwin University (CDU) is joining with The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) North American Flame Retardant Alliance (NAFRA) and the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in Al Ain to develop new processes for recovering and recycling bromine and antimony from flame-retarded plastics.

8 Dec 2021

Elkem Launches First TCFD Report on Climate Risks and Opportunities

Elkem has on Wednesday 8 December launched its first TCFD report as an initiative to address the potential financial impact of climate risks and opportunities.

From Elkem 8 Dec 2021

Mindful Chef Becomes the First Recipe Box Company to Introduce Carbon Labelling

Mindful Chef is pleased to announce that it has become the first recipe box company to carbon label its recipes, as a new Low Carbon range launched on the menu on 3rd December.

8 Dec 2021

New Data Shows Traffic Pollution Level Rose by Nearly a Third in Glasgow During COP26

New data released today by Aeternum, a provider of low cost, unplugged sensors designed to accurately monitor air quality, finds that levels of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide increased by nearly a third within a mile of COP26 in Glasgow last month.

8 Dec 2021

New Robust Tool for Faster, Economical, Easier Coral Reef Monitoring

Scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), the University of Tokyo, and the Okinawa Prefecture Environment Science Center have engineered a tool that can establish the diversity of hard corals on a reef by examining the DNA in a sample of seawater.

7 Dec 2021

New Type of Induced Earthquake Triggered by Hydraulic Fracturing

A research team from Canada and Germany has identified a novel kind of earthquake signal in the vicinity of injection wells characterized by hybrid-frequency waveforms (EHWs).

By William Alldred 7 Dec 2021

New Material may Pave the Way Toward Delivering More Energy than Existing Battery Technologies

University of Texas at Austin researchers have created a new sodium-based battery material that is highly stable, capable of recharging as quickly as a traditional lithium-ion battery and able to pave the way toward delivering more energy than current battery technologies.

7 Dec 2021