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ORNL Develops New Method for Detecting Environmental PEG Pollution

Substances called polyethylene glycols, or PEGs, are widely used in industry, medical, cosmetics and personal care products. The problem is, when they enter the environment and build up, they can harm ecosystems and natural resources.

31 Jul 2024

Milence Begins Development of Its First UK Charging Hub in Immingham, Pioneering Sustainable Transport in the Region

Milence, the joint venture between Daimler Truck, the TRATON GROUP, and Volvo Group, announces the development of its first charging hub in the UK.

31 Jul 2024

Novel Strategy for Emission Reduction

In a study published in Frontiers in Science, an international team of climate scientists outlined three critical needs for reducing methane emissions and provided a new resource to assist in determining the most economical means of doing so.

31 Jul 2024

Argonne Projects Acquire Funding in the Quest for Zero-Carbon Emissions

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has received funding from the DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions for four new initiatives aimed at advancing the commercialization of breakthrough clean-energy technology for a sustainable future.

31 Jul 2024

Health-Threat ‘Forever Chemicals’ Removed from Water with 3D-Printed Ceramic Ink

Engineers have invented a new way to remove health-harming ‘forever chemicals’ from water – using 3D printing.

From University of Bath 31 Jul 2024

Wind Farm Construction in Hunan Province Harms Soil Nutrients and Vegetation

A recent article published in the journal Sustainability investigated how wind farm construction affects soil nutrients and vegetation cover in a mountainous area of Hunan Province, China.

By Muhammad Osama 30 Jul 2024

Study Reveals Hyperlocal Air Pollution Exposure Disparities

A recent study published in Nature Cities and co-authored by MIT scholars finds considerable disparities in how much people are exposed to air pollution based on their daily mobility.

30 Jul 2024

A Quicker and Cleaner Method for Lithium Extraction from Battery Waste

Rice University researchers offer a speedy, effective, and environmentally friendly approach for selective lithium recovery utilizing microwave radiation and a rapidly biodegradable solvent in their most recent study, published in Advanced Functional Materials.

30 Jul 2024

Eco Start-Up Makes Waves to Give Sailing Waste a Second Life

Waste textiles from sailing boats could be given a new lease of life as a result of a research project upcycling plastic fibers from sails into new chemicals such as vanillin – the compound used in cosmetics and food products for a vanilla flavour and smell.

From IBioIC 30 Jul 2024

Study Reveals Trees’ Hidden Role in Climate Control

Microbes that live in tree bark are sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, making trees an even more critical part of combating climate change than scientists previously thought, according to a study published today in Nature.

29 Jul 2024

MIT Engineers Discover Promising New Proton Conductors for Clean Energy Technologies

As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the movement of electrons. But materials that can efficiently conduct protons — the nucleus of the hydrogen atom — could be key to a number of important technologies for combating global climate change.

29 Jul 2024

Carbon Removal Technologies Could Revitalize the Steel Industry

Recent research carried out by Heriot-Watt University’s Research Centre for Carbon Solutions, published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, suggests that by combining carbon capture technologies with financial incentives, the steel industry can not only reduce its carbon footprint but also become profitable by using lower-grade iron ore.

29 Jul 2024

Anaerobic Digestion Turns Grass into Green Fuel

Researchers from Iowa State University analyzed the effects of employing anaerobic digestion to generate renewable natural gas from grassy biomass in various contexts and from different angles.

29 Jul 2024

Desalination Outperforms Direct Seawater Electrolysis for Hydrogen Production

In a recent study published in the journal Joule, researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the various strategies proposed earlier by scientists on the production of green hydrogen from unpurified saltwater.

29 Jul 2024

Fresh Light on the Path to Net Zero

Scientists are closer to giving the next generation of solar cells a powerful boost by integrating a process that could make the technology more efficient by breaking particles of light—photons—into small chunks.

From The University of New South Wales (UNSW) 28 Jul 2024