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North American Bird Populations Face Greater Decline by Century’s End Due to Climate Change

Following decades of decline, even fewer birds will darken North American skies by the end of the century, according to a new analysis by scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

12 Jun 2024

Nitrous Oxide Emissions Soared 40 Percent from 1980-2020, Greatly Accelerating Climate Change, New Study Led by Boston College Scientists Finds

Emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane – continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10-million metric tons were released into the atmosphere primarily through farming practices, according to a new report led by Boston College scientists for the Global Carbon Project.

12 Jun 2024

Study on Climate Change Control with ML Named Best Paper

The Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), held in Vienna, Austria, and remotely in May, awarded a best paper award to a group that is exploring and utilizing machine learning to predict weather.

11 Jun 2024

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Hilux Project Reaches Demonstration Phase

A ground-breaking project to develop a hydrogen fuel cell Toyota Hilux pick-up has moved to its final phase, signalling another milestone in Toyota’s progress towards a zero carbon future.

11 Jun 2024

Floating Solar Panels Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy and Water Conservation

Researchers have explored the global potential of floating solar photovoltaics (FPVs), a renewable energy technology that involves installing solar panels on water surfaces.

By Muhammad Osama 11 Jun 2024

Study Highlights Barriers to Household Solar Adoption in South Africa

In a recent literature review published in Heliyon, researchers thoroughly investigated the barriers hindering household solar photovoltaic (PV) adoption in South Africa.

By Muhammad Osama 11 Jun 2024

Scientists Propose Converting Natural Gas Into Hydrogen Directly in Gas Fields

Skoltech researchers have found a way to produce hydrogen from natural gas with 45 % efficiency right in the gas field by injecting steam and a catalyst into a well and adding oxygen to ignite the gas.

From Skoltech 11 Jun 2024

MIT Students Explore the Best Path Forward to Achieve Decarbonization Goals

A number of emerging technologies hold promise for helping organizations move away from fossil fuels and achieve deep decarbonization.

10 Jun 2024

Soil Power: UK Startup Bactery is Generating Sustainable Energy from the Earth

A new startup company is leading the charge to a new form of sustainable power, by creating a battery that recharges itself when placed in soil.

From University of Bath 8 Jun 2024

Engineered Bacteria for Sustainable Biorefining from Sorghum Biomass

Lignin is a major part of plant cells that makes them strong and rigid. It is made of compounds known as aromatics strung together in chains.

7 Jun 2024

Cepsa Begins Construction of a Plant to Produce 80,000 mt of Isopropyl Alcohol in Spain

Cepsa is boosting its chemical business with the development of a new industrial activity that represents an advance and improvement in the diversification of its products The company has started work on a new isopropyl alcohol (IPA) plant, a product that is not only found in hydroalcoholic gels due to its biocidal properties, but also in cleaning products for both household and industry.

From Cepsa 7 Jun 2024

The LIFE eGymer Project Successfully Tested Different Kinds of Chemical-Free Traps to Control the Gypsy Moth in Southern Europe Forests

The gypsy moth is an indigenous species that infects oak forests in Central and Southern Europe, Asia and Africa. The larvae’s voracious appetite poses a major environmental problem because the species can completely defoliate trees and cause health problems to humans and animals in the form of allergies and skin irritation such as dermatitis and hives, as is widely reported after contact with caterpillars.

From AIMPLAS 7 Jun 2024

Using Clean-Burning Hydrogen in Long-Haul Trucks

People around the world rely on trucks to deliver the goods they need, and so-called long-haul trucks play a critical role in those supply chains. In the United States, long-haul trucks moved 71 percent of all freight in 2022.

6 Jun 2024

Eggshell Waste Recovers REEs Needed for Green Energy

According to a study published in ACS Omega, researchers from Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences and iCRAG, the Science Foundation Ireland research center in applied geosciences, discovered that humble eggshell waste could recover REES from water, providing a new, environmentally friendly method for their extraction.

6 Jun 2024

Report Warns of Rapidly Approaching Climate Tipping Point

According to the University of Leeds' second annual Indicators of Global Climate Change study, human-induced warming has increased to 1.19 °C during the past ten years (2014–2023), up from 1.14 °C seen in 2013–2022 (detailed in the previous year’s report).

5 Jun 2024