Cleantech News

RSS

New Wave of Cutting-Edge Technologies Supported by UK Government Show Potential to Significantly Cut Carbon and Costs for Industry

The UK Government-funded BEIS Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator has today released the results from the initial phases of the programme, which suggest that from the 16 innovation demonstration cross-sector projects supported, up to 40.5 TWh of energy could be saved by 2031 if the technologies are adopted.

1 Dec 2021

HPS Receives the "Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award" for the World's First Year-Round Electricity Storage System for Homes

HPS Home Power Solutions GmbH, provider of picea, the world’s first year-round electricity storage system for homes based on green hydrogen, today announced that it has been selected from 168 entries to receive the “Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award”.

From Home Power Solutions (HPS) 1 Dec 2021

Australia Post Welcomes First Electric Trucks to its Delivery Fleet

Australia Post has welcomed the first of 20 electric trucks to its national delivery fleet, with three Fuso eCanters now delivering parcels to customers in Melbourne ahead of Christmas.

30 Nov 2021

Researchers Analyze the Origins of Microplastics in Antarctica

Microplastics are all over the place, even in the most remote regions of the world. Where do these minute pieces of plastic originate from? Scientists from the University of Basel and the Alfred-Wegener Institute have demonstrated that it requires precise analysis to respond to this question.

30 Nov 2021

Tropical Cyclones’ Destructive Power Could Have Doubled Due to Climate change

In a new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science, researchers investigated how tropical cyclones' destructive power has changed over the eastern and southeastern regions of Asia between 1979 (hereafter) and 2016.

30 Nov 2021

New Method Uses Waterfall's Sound and Appearance to Track Water Loss

Waterfalls have a specific threshold of water flow that must be maintained to preserve their characteristic sound and appearance, according to research that used audio recordings and images to monitor waterfalls in Europe.

30 Nov 2021

World's Eight Most Extreme Wildfire Weather Years on Record Occurred in the Last Decade

The world's eight most extreme wildfire weather years have occurred in the last decade, according to a new study that suggests extreme fire weather is being driven by a decrease in atmospheric humidity coupled with rising temperatures.

30 Nov 2021

Arctic Rivers are Discharging Much More Water than Previously Thought, Satellite Data Reveals

A civil and environmental engineering researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has, for the first time, assimilated satellite information into on-site river measurements and hydrologic models to calculate the past 35 years of river discharge in the entire pan-Arctic region.

30 Nov 2021

Can United Nations’ COP26 Save Antarctica’s Ice Sheets from Melting?

For more than 30 years, David Harwood, professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been a leading scientist investigating how global temperature change affected Antarctic ecosystems and the stability of the large southern ice sheets over millions of years in the ancient past.

30 Nov 2021

Study Shows How Near-Term Mitigation can Help Prevent Temperature Overshoot

A new international study coordinated by IIASA shows how near-term mitigation can help to prevent an overshoot in global temperatures, thereby reducing climate risks and bringing long-term economic gains.

30 Nov 2021

Research Paves Way for Mass Adoption of Clean Cars Powered by Direct-Ethanol Fuel Cells

Alternative-energy research at Oregon State University is charting a path toward the mass adoption of clean cars powered by direct-ethanol fuel cells.

30 Nov 2021

Study Assesses the Benefits of Limiting Temperature Overshoot

Mitigation pathways exploring end-of-century temperature targets often entail temperature overshoot, that is the extent to which temperature is allowed to temporarily exceed a given target.

30 Nov 2021

New £17M Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies Launched

The £17M Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies was officially launched at its new base in the Carriage Works in Swindon last week.

30 Nov 2021

Climate Change is Speeding Up the Flow of Antarctic Circumpolar Current

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the only ocean current that circumnavigates the planet, is speeding up.

30 Nov 2021

Strong Climate Action can Reduce Inequality and Alleviate Poverty

According to a Rutgers study, if all countries adopted the same tax on carbon emissions and returned the revenues to their citizens, it is possible to keep the global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius while also benefiting wellbeing, reducing inequality, and alleviating poverty.

30 Nov 2021