How might climate change affect the acidification of the world's oceans or air quality in China and India in the coming decades, and what climate policies could be effective in minimizing such impacts? To answer such questions, decision makers routinely rely on science-based projections of physical and economic impacts of climate change on selected regions and economic sectors.
A team of researchers are working on enhancing the efficiency of microbial fuel cells (MFC) by using adapted graphite felt.
Researchers have developed a new fuel cell offering both excellent power densities and long-term stability at optimal temperatures.
Chemical engineers have developed a new sustainable production technique that could improve plastics and pharmaceuticals.
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are remarkable next-generation materials that possess the largest internal surface area of any identified substance.
Scientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, and not just greenhouse gas emissions, can play a significant role altering the world's climate systems. Now, a new study by researchers at MIT and Dartmouth College reveals how another type of land use, intensive agriculture, can impact regional climate.
Mixed-halide perovskite thin films are ideal ‘smart windows' (capable of adjustable transparency, color change & solar power generation) development.
By Brett Smith
12 Feb 2018
Plant enthusiasts are acquainted with peat moss as the main component of potting mix, but harvest of the material is turning out to be unsustainable.
An innovative method for easily and cost-efficiently eliminating highly resistant pollutants from water has been devised by chemists.
Amazon Filters reports on growing sales of Halal certified filter cartridges and housings to global food and beverage manufacturers looking to supply the international Muslim community.
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THE CLIMATE COUNCIL has launched its major national report ‘Icons at Risk: Climate Change Threatening Australian Tourism’ on Thursday.
The national report shows that Australia’s most popular tourist destinations a...
An accelerating need to find energy sources to substitute decreasing fossil fuels means that hydrogen will probably have a significant role in the future.
MIT engineers working with scientists in Kuwait have found that volcanic rocks, when pulverized into a fine ash, can be used as a sustainable additive in concrete structures.
Global ozone has had an unexpected decrease in sections of the atmosphere could be preventing rehabilitation at lower latitudes.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
7 Feb 2018
New research by CHEOPS has found a way to reduce the ‘dead area’ or photovoltaic cells by applying an enhanced laser patterning process.
By Isabelle Robinson
6 Feb 2018