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Only 1 in 10 People Recognise Biodiversity Loss as a Major Environmental Threat – Research Reveals

NEW RESEARCH published today reveals a worrying lack of awareness around biodiversity and the critical role it plays in protecting our planet and future survival.

19 Jan 2022

New Technique to Convert Greenhouse Gasses into Clean Energy Using Photonics

A European consortium is developing a new process that uses sunlight and LEDs to turn carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into clean energy products like methane gas and methanol liquid fuel.

19 Jan 2022

The Importance of Maximizing Blue, Green and Grey Water Usage

One of the most valuable resources on earth is decreasing, and its depletion impacts the lives of all living beings on earth. Its shortage is costly in biological, economical, and ecological terms. It is not oil, but a resource even more valuable – water.

18 Jan 2022

Successful MW-Scale Demonstration of sCO2 Technology for a Concentrated Solar Power Plant

Southwest Research Institute worked with government and commercial collaborators to successfully develop and demonstrate full-scale turbomachinery for one of the world's first supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power systems for a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant.

18 Jan 2022

Decarbonisation Tech Instantly Converts CO2 to Solid Carbon

Australian researchers have developed a smart and super-efficient new way of capturing carbon dioxide and converting it to solid carbon, to help advance the decarbonisation of heavy industries.

18 Jan 2022

Citizen Scientists Needed to Help Record Impact of Fires on Biodiversity in Weekend BioBlitzes

UNSW scientists are behind a citizen science event which will document the bushfire recovery of plants, animals and fungi across three bushfire affected regions in New South Wales.

18 Jan 2022

Ocean Winds Consolidates Scottish Power Production in the Moray Firth & Celebrates ScotWind Award of Moray Firth Site

Ocean Winds, an international offshore wind energy company created by EDP Renewables (EDPR) and ENGIE (50:50), has been awarded the rights to develop new offshore wind generation capacity in the outer Moray Firth in Scotland, as part of the ScotWind process run by Crown Estate Scotland.

18 Jan 2022

New Catalyst for Maximizing the Efficiency of Green Hydrogen Production

The climate crisis requires ramping up usage of renewable energy sources like solar and wind, but with intermittent availability, scalable energy storage is a challenge.

17 Jan 2022

New Hydrogen Plant Design Draws on Fully Renewable Resources to Produce the Lowest Carbon

In the global race to curb climate change and reduce carbon emissions, hydrogen is considered a serious contender to replace fossil fuels. Although hydrogen 'burns' cleanly, with only water as a by-product, the current way of making hydrogen a reliable fuel alternative is energy- and carbon-intensive.

17 Jan 2022

Climate Adaptation Makes Cocoa Farmers More Vulnerable to Economic and Climatic Risks

New research offers an alternative perspective on adaptation to climate threats in Southeast Asia.

17 Jan 2022

Earth’s Heat May Dissipate Sooner than Previously Thought

The evolution of our Earth is the story of its cooling: 4.5 billion years ago, extreme temperatures prevailed on the surface of the young Earth, and it was covered by a deep ocean of magma.

17 Jan 2022

$1.5 Million Grant to Support the Role of USDA Climate Hubs in Indian Country

A collaborative team of researchers led by Maureen McCarthy, Ph.D., of DRI has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to support and strengthen the role of USDA Climate Hubs in Indian Country.

17 Jan 2022

New Spin Out Aims to Commercialize the Battery Modeling Capability

About:Energy, a joint spin out from Imperial College London and the University of Birmingham has been set up to help commercialise the battery modelling capability developed by the Faraday Institution's Multi-scale Modelling Project.

17 Jan 2022

Photon Recycling can Provide a Pathway Towards High-Efficiency Solar Energy Conversion

Metal halide perovskites are receiving great attention as next-generation semiconductors for solar energy conversion. Since the first demonstration of 3.8% efficiency in 2009, efficiencies have increased rapidly and state-of-the-art perovskite solar cells exhibit high efficiencies over 25%, close to the record efficiencies of silicon photovoltaics.

17 Jan 2022

Copper Released into the Environment may be Contributing to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion

Copper released into the environment from fungicides, brake pads, antifouling paints on boats and other sources may be contributing significantly to stratospheric ozone depletion, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley.

17 Jan 2022