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Swedish Innovation Can Save the Planet from Plastic Lids

Every year, more than 300 billion plastic lids – 1,500,000,000 kg of plastic – are used on our coffee and beverage cups. The lids leak, and we spill and burn ourselves.

From Liplid 22 Nov 2021

UN Finds Nuclear is the Lowest Carbon Electricity Source

Nuclear power produces less CO2 emissions over its lifecycle than any other electricity source, according to a new report by UNECE.

22 Nov 2021

Study Explores How Extreme Rainfall and Earthquakes can Induce Landslide Rates

Earthquakes and extreme rainfall can lead to a six-fold increase in the rates of rainfall-triggered landslides occurring during Nepal’s monsoon season, according to new research.

19 Nov 2021

Carbon Storage Declines Strongly with Rising Temperatures

Global warming will cause the world's soil to release carbon, new research shows.

19 Nov 2021

New Evidence Could Help Accelerate the Adoption of Clean Cooking Fuels in Sub-Saharan Africa

University of Liverpool researchers have produced new evidence that could help rapidly boost efforts to scale-up the adoption of clean cooking with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in sub-Saharan Africa.

19 Nov 2021

Averting Climate Risks with Fast and Complete Energy Transitions

"Who would board an airplane, if the chance to arrive safely would only be 50 percent?" ask Harald Desing and Rolf Widmer at the very beginning of their publication. On our journey into the future with spaceship Earth, we don't have the choice of getting on or off.

19 Nov 2021

Berkeley Lab Leads Effort to Develop Thermal Energy Storage for Decarbonizing Buildings

Could a tank of ice or hot water be a battery? Yes! If a battery is a device for storing energy, then storing hot or cold water to power a building’s heating or air-conditioning system is a different type of energy storage.

19 Nov 2021

Rising Rivers Pose Danger to the Coast and Farther Inland, Research Shows

If you think living away from the coast keeps you safe from climate change and rising waters, think again.

19 Nov 2021

Study Reveals How to Manage the Landscape in Cities to Reduce Effects of Stormwater Runoff

As the global climate change conversation intensifies and nations look to minimize environmental impacts in their own backyards, nature-based solutions are garnering new levels of interest.

19 Nov 2021

Finding Opportunities to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Common Plastic

Broad-based scientific team from government, academia and industry joins forces to identify new opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of polyurethane -; one of the most widely used but little recycled plastic materials.

19 Nov 2021

Groundwater Storage Recovery in California has Been Dismal After Last Two Droughts

Groundwater in California's Central Valley is at risk of being depleted by pumping too much water during and after droughts, according to a new study in the AGU journal Water Resources Research, an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on hydrology and water resources.

19 Nov 2021

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