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Antarctic Ice-Mass Loss Could be the Start of Irreversible Period of Ice Sheet Retreat

After the natural warming that followed the last Ice Age, there were repeated periods when masses of icebergs broke off from Antarctica into the Southern Ocean.

19 Nov 2021

MIT's New Climate Action Plan Shows Progress

Two recent online events related to MIT's ambitious new climate action plan highlighted several areas of progress, including uses of the campus as a real-life testbed for climate impact research, the creation of new planning bodies with opportunities for input from all parts of the MIT community, and a variety of moves toward reducing the Institute's own carbon footprint in ways that may also provide a useful model for others.

19 Nov 2021

New Technology Offers a Safe, Cheap and Sustainable Solution for Large-Scale Energy Storage

Safe, cheap and sustainable technology for energy storage has been developed at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University. It is based on two major breakthroughs: the manufacture of wood-based electrodes in rolled form, and a new type of water-based electrolyte.

19 Nov 2021

New Greener Method to Create Grignard Reagents Could Revolutionize Industrial Processes

A simpler, greener technique for creating Grignard reagents—one of the most important and widely used types of reagents in the chemical sector—has been formulated by a team of researchers directed by scientists at Hokkaido University.

19 Nov 2021

Enviva and J-Power Join Efforts to Decarbonize Power Generation in Japan

Enviva Partners, LP, a global renewable energy company specializing in sustainable wood bioenergy, and Tokyo-based utility Electric Power Development Co., Ltd., have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the long-term, large-scale supply of sustainable wood biomass from Enviva's manufacturing facilities in the U.S. Southeast to J-Power’s coal-fired power plants in Japan.

From Enviva 19 Nov 2021

Antarctic Ice Sheet Changed Alarmingly Quickly in the Past - and may be Happening Again Now

Patterns of rapid ice loss in the past could predict style of future Antarctic ice sheet retreat.

19 Nov 2021

Finnish Innovation Powers Hydrogen Economy

Following this month’s gathering of world leaders to address global warming at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) summit in Glasgow, green energy has become the topic on everyone’s lips.

19 Nov 2021

Physicists Collaborate to Fight Against Climate Change on Worldwide Scale

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is joining with societies worldwide to commit to further global partnership of physicists in fighting the challenges of climate change and facilitating a greener international economy.

18 Nov 2021

Rising Temperatures Linked to Higher Frequency of Wildfires in the Sierra Nevada

Naturalist John Muir called the Sierra Nevada "the Range of Light." But a more ominous nickname, "the Range of Fire," may lie ahead, according to new research from the University of California, Irvine.

18 Nov 2021

Accurate Social Cost Estimates of Nitrous Oxide Could Provide a Better Picture of Climate Change

The social cost of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that is the largest remaining threat to the ozone layer, is understated, concludes an international team of researchers.

18 Nov 2021

Understanding the Potential of Magnesium-Ion-Conducting Solid Polymer Electrolytes for Batteries

The researchers, led by Jennifer L. Schaefer, professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, analyzed how magnesium-ion-conducting solid polymer electrolytes may work in two separate battery systems.

18 Nov 2021