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Study Investigates Impact of Microplastics on the Environment

Although almost all have seen images such as sea birds in danger of going extinct due to their belly full of plastic garbage and accumulation of plastics as big as islands, there are also plastic particles that are hardly visible to the naked eye—microplastics.

14 May 2019

Researchers Analyze the Effect of Ocean Activities on Climate Change in Drylands

According to Chinese scientists, the activities of the oceans can significantly influence climate change in drylands, causing increasing drought and deterioration of ecosystem.

14 May 2019

Accumulation of Marine Plastic Pollution Poses a Major Threat to Coastal Ecosystems

According to a recent study from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), mangrove forests located on the coasts of Saudi Arabia serve as litter traps, accruing large amounts of plastic litter from the marine environment.

14 May 2019

Study Explores Trade-Offs Between Climate Mitigation and Food Security

IIASA scientists partnered with colleagues in Japan to explain the effects of strict climate mitigation policies on food security. The team identified smart and comprehensive climate policy designs where the danger of food-security for hundreds of millions of people could be solved at a reasonable cost.

14 May 2019

Temperature Difference Between WAGHC and WOA13 Climatologies Confirms Global Ocean Warming

The most significant component of the climate system on Earth is the global ocean. The oceans store heat energy and conduct heat from the tropics to higher latitudes, acting extremely slow in response to atmospheric changes.

13 May 2019

Star Renewable Energy to Showcase Queens Quay’s District Heat Pump at All Energy 2019

Star Renewable Energy is once again exhibiting at the All Energy Exhibition and Conference, this year along with Vital Energi and West Dunbartonshire Council to showcase the recent partnership delivering district heating to Queens Quay.

From Vital Energi 13 May 2019

Key Global Players Team-Up with Carbios & L’Oréal to Boost PET Recyclability

On behalf of the Consortium, Carbios and L’Oréal have announced a major partnership with Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe.

13 May 2019

GreenMantra & INEOS Styrolution Collaborate to Advance Polystyrene Chemical Recycling

GreenMantra and INEOS Styrolution have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA), which will align GreenMantra’s patented technology and INEOS Styrolution’s manufacturing infrastructure to convert waste polystyrene into chemical monomer building blocks that further advance the polystyrene circular economy by replacing a portion of virgin monomer feed in INEOS Styrolution’s polymerization process.

From INEOS Styrolution Group GmbH 13 May 2019

EuPC’s New Digital Platform Monitors Recycled Polymers’ Performance Evolution

MORE, the single, unified digital platform to monitor the uptake of recycled polymers into products, is available to be used by converters since the 25th of April 2019.

From European Plastics Converters 13 May 2019

Amcor Unveils AmLite Ultra Recyclable, New Recyclable High-Barrier Packaging

Amcor has launched AmLite Ultra Recyclable, its first packaging product made from the company’s revolutionary, more sustainable high-barrier polyolefin film that the company announced last year.

From Amcor 13 May 2019

Scientists Strategize Ways to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Waste Plastic

From campaigns against microplastics to news of the great Pacific garbage patch, public awareness is growing about the outsized effect plastic has on the world’s oceans. However, its effect on the air is far less obvious.

13 May 2019

INGAA Report: Natural Gas will Retain its Key Role in the U.S. Power Sector for the Next 20 Years

The new flagship report from INGAA Foundation Inc. discovers that natural gas will retain its important role in the U.S. power sector for at least the next two decades even if renewable energy takes up a major part of the nation’s electricity market.

10 May 2019

Glowing Plants Could Light the Way for Sustainable Buildings

Collaboration between MIT architect and chemical engineer could be at the center of new sustainable infrastructure for buildings.

10 May 2019

Researchers Discover Enzyme that Catalyzes Methane-to-Methanol Conversion Reaction

Methanotrophic bacteria have attracted great attention among scientists for their potential to remove methane from the environment and transform it into usable fuel.

10 May 2019

Study Sheds Light on Wintertime Air Pollution

The processes that cause ozone pollution in the summer can also cause the formation of wintertime air pollution, according to a new research from scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA, in collaboration with the University of Utah.

10 May 2019