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Huawei Debuts Giga Green Site in Spain for Optimal Energy Efficiency and Performance

At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022, Huawei and one of its operator partners jointly announced the commercialization of the world's first Giga Green Site.

From Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 4 Mar 2022

New Report Finds Smarter Way to Make Homes More Energy Efficient

A new approach to measuring heat loss from homes with smart meters will make buildings more energy efficient and cut CO2, say researchers.

4 Mar 2022

Giving New Life to Dead Lithium-ion Batteries

A team of researchers based at Princeton have made steps towards developing a sustainable and economical way to recycle dead Li-ion batteries and make new ones in their place.

By David J. Cross 3 Mar 2022

Great Diversity of Marine Organisms Attach Themselves to Plastics and are Dragged Along by Marine Currents

Recent research headed by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) and the University of Barcelona (UB) reveals how great diversity of marine organisms attach themselves to plastics and are dragged along by marine currents.

3 Mar 2022

Engineers Demonstrate a New Method for Reducing Sulfur Pollution

Someone’s wastewater is just another person’s gold. A new Stanford University study lays the possibility for sewage to be mined for valuable elements used in fertilizers and batteries that could support smartphones and planes in the future.

3 Mar 2022

Environmental Change may have Driven the Formation and Abandonment of Native American Shell Ring Villages

Mollusk shells at 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages indicate that environmental change may have driven the formation and abandonment of these coastal communities, according to a study by Carey Garland and Victor Thompson in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 2, 2022.

3 Mar 2022

Small-Scale, Renewable Energy Generators can Leave the Power Grid More Susceptible to Failure

Renewable energy that feeds into the main power grid could destabilise the system and potentially cause power failures according to a new study.

3 Mar 2022

New Biochar Project may Lead to Reductions in Manure Odors, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Heat up stalks, stems, leaves or wood in a reactor with little or no oxygen (in a process called pyrolysis) and you get bio-oil for fuel and biochar for fertilizer.

3 Mar 2022

Improving the Safety and Energy Density of Next-Generation Batteries

Four South Dakota State University faculty members will help improve battery technologies through the Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage. The new governor's research center, which is led by South Dakota Mines associate professor Alevtina Smirnova, recently received $3.9 million in state funding.

3 Mar 2022

Nations Missed a Chance to Address Climate Change with Unprecedented Pandemic Stimulus

With deadlines to address climate change looming, countries worldwide missed a chance with unprecedented pandemic stimulus spending, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds.

3 Mar 2022

Winner to Test Multiple Benefits of Seaweed for Aquaculture

A natural seaweed feed supplement may hold the key to boosting the health of farmed prawns, and potentially other species, and improving the industry’s profitability and environmental footprint.

3 Mar 2022

Water Allocations May Leave NT River High and Dry: Study

Tree ring analysis suggests strong flows in NT’s Daly River can’t go on forever and water allocation could lead to environmental and cultural damage.

3 Mar 2022

Lockheed Martin Invest in Satellite Vu to Bring its World-first Climate Change Technology to the US

British Earth Observation scale-up Satellite Vu, founded in 2016, has successfully closed the second round of its Series A, bringing total investment to £20 million.

From SatVu 3 Mar 2022

PerkinElmer and P1 Fuels Team Up to Boost Sustainable Mobility Through Fossil-free Fuels

PerkinElmer, a global leader in end-to-end solutions for diagnostics, life sciences, food and environmental markets, has today announced a long-term partnership with P1 Fuels, a specialist in the formulation, production and delivery of advanced, fossil-free performance fuels for racing teams and the automotive industry.

From PerkinElmer, Inc. 3 Mar 2022

SP Energy Networks Given Green Light for Nine Projects to Accelerate Pace of Change Towards Net Zero Targets

SP Energy Networks has been given the green light to progress with £1.2 m worth of projects to help tackle some of the UK’s biggest and most complex network challenges. Nine projects will now move into an early trial phase where their solutions to help move the country towards achieving its net zero emissions targets will be assessed.

From SP Energy Networks 3 Mar 2022