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Green Hydrogen to Decarbonise Kirkwall Airport

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is collaborating with Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) to decarbonise heat and power at Kirkwall Airport through green hydrogen technology.

27 Jan 2021

Economic Growth, Fossil-Fuel Use, and Air Quality are Closely Linked

For a long time, world economies have been powered by the combustion of fossil fuels that has also contributed to the accumulation of greenhouse gases and air pollution.

27 Jan 2021

River-Borne Plastic Pollution Considerably Affects Southeast Asian Mangroves

According to a new study, mangrove ecosystems are specifically at risk of getting polluted by plastic transported from rivers to the sea. About 54% of mangrove habitat lies within 20 km of a river that carries over one tonne of plastic waste into the ocean annually.

27 Jan 2021

Improvements Observed in Water Quality of Maryland’s Choptank River

Water in the Chesapeake Bay has long been polluted by nutrients, leading to water quality degradation.

27 Jan 2021

Leveraging the Power of AI to Make Solar Power Plants More Efficient

Computer scientists and energy technology experts from Case Western Reserve University have joined hands to exploit the diagnostic power of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the efficiency of solar power plants.

27 Jan 2021

Researchers Study the Impact of Increasing Ocean Temperatures on Marine Life

Global warming or climate change. It doesn't matter what you call it. What matters is that right now it is having a direct and dramatic effect on marine environments across our planet.

27 Jan 2021

Collaboration with Farmers is Key to Improving Soil Health and Agricultural Productivity

There are an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 species of micro-organism per gram of soil. Addition of certain microbes can tailor soil characteristics: removing contaminants, improving fertility and even making barren land available for farming.

27 Jan 2021

Boosting the Efficiency of Carbon Capture and Conversion Systems

Systems for capturing and converting carbon dioxide from power plant emissions could be important tools for curbing climate change, but most are relatively inefficient and expensive. Now, researchers at MIT have developed a method that could significantly boost the performance of systems that use catalytic surfaces to enhance the rates of carbon-sequestering electrochemical reactions.

27 Jan 2021

SEGRO to Deliver Greenest Site in London

SEGRO has secured planning consent from Haringey Council and the Greater London Authority to speculatively develop what is set to become London’s greenest industrial estate.

27 Jan 2021

Pacific Green Enters into a Framework Agreement with Sinopec to Work on a Portfolio of Projects that include Onshore and Offshore Wind Power, Photovoltaic Power and Comprehensive Energy Utilization

Pacific Green Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Green Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Limited has signed a Framework Agreement with SINOPEC Star Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SINOPEC, the world's largest oil refining, gas and petrochemical conglomerate headquartered in Beijing to provide design, development engineering and consulting services.

From Pacific Green Technologies, Inc. 27 Jan 2021

The Ministry of Energy and ACWA Power Achieve Momentous Milestones as Uzbekistan Enhances its Clean Energy Capacity

Following agreements signed in March 2020, cooperation between the Uzbekistan Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade, and ACWA Power has led to three major milestones in the development of power projects to enable Uzbekistan’s ambitious energy transformation plan and increase energy capacity by 2500 MW.

27 Jan 2021

The Link Between Air Pollution and Irreversible Sight Loss

A new study points towards an association between small particle pollution and age-related macular degeneration.

By Robert Lea 26 Jan 2021

Hamburg Power Plant to be Converted into Mega-Electrolyser for Green Hydrogen

The companies Vattenfall, Shell, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), and Hamburg's municipal heat supplier Hamburg Wärme are planning to build one of the world's largest electrolyzers in the Port of Hamburg. The new electrolyzer is to have a capacity of 100 megawatts and be built on the site of the former Moorburg coal-fired power plant. The four companies have now signed a Letter of Intent to this end.

26 Jan 2021

Study Investigates Microplastic Abundance, Characteristics Along the Ganges

According to a new study, the Ganges River, including the combined flows of the Meghna and Brahmaputra rivers, could be accountable for the entry of up to 3 billion microplastic particles into the Bay of Bengal daily.

25 Jan 2021

A Modeling Framework to Predict Beach Water Quality

Less than two days of water quality sampling at local beaches may be all that's needed to reduce illnesses among millions of beachgoers every year due to contaminated water, according to new Stanford research.

25 Jan 2021