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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

New Efficient EV Charging System with Solar Integration

Researchers at the National Institute of Technology Silchar have created a novel scheduling system for electric vehicles (EVs) that improves power grid efficiency and takes into account the increasing amount of solar energy in response to the growing demand for sustainable transportation solutions.

5 Jun 2024

Innovative Strategies to Reduce Resource Consumption and Fossil Fuel Emissions

Alessio Mastrucci, Charlie Wilson, Volker Krey, and Felix Creutzig of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin, along with numerous collaborators from the IIASA-led CircEUlar and EDITS research projects, led a perspective piece published in Nature Climate Change that details novel approaches that drastically cut down on resource consumption and fossil fuel emissions.

5 Jun 2024

UAV-based Thermal Monitoring for Solar Farm Efficiency Analysis

Researchers have explored the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with thermal imaging sensors to analyze the efficiency of solar farms.

By Muhammad Osama 5 Jun 2024

Trillium Renewable Chemicals Selects INEOS Green Lake for World’s First Demonstration Plant for Sustainable Acrylonitrile Production

Trillium Renewable Chemicals (Trillium) today announced the selection of INEOS Nitriles’ Green Lake facility in Port Lavaca, Texas to establish the world’s first demonstration plant for converting plant-based glycerol into acrylonitrile. The demonstration plant is named “Project Falcon.”

From INEOS 5 Jun 2024

Five Projects Will Receive Funding to Advance Understanding of Ocean Systems in a Changing Climate

Five global science and technology projects have been selected to join the Ocean Biogeochemistry Virtual Institute (OBVI) addressing gaps in ocean data and modeling efforts by improving the breadth of research in the field and expanding capacity to understand ocean resources.

From Schmidt Sciences 4 Jun 2024

L’OCCITANE en Provence and CARBIOS Present a PET Bottle Made From Enzymatic Recycling, the Result of a European Circular Economy

CARBIOS, a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to reinvent the life cycle of plastic and textiles, and L’OCCITANE en Provence, an international cosmetics brand using natural and organic ingredients, a long-term partner of CARBIOS, present a bottle in transparent PET made entirely from enzymatic recycling for a shower oil from the Amande range.

From CARBIOS 4 Jun 2024

Some Countries Could Meet Their Total Electricity Needs From Floating Solar Panels, Research Shows

Floating solar photovoltaic panels could supply all the electricity needs of some countries, new research has shown.

4 Jun 2024

Bacteria Offers Promise to Curb N2O Emissions from Farms

A recent study conducted by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and IIASA, which was published in Nature, suggests that greenhouse gas emissions from food production can be reduced by employing soil bacteria.

1 Jun 2024

Abandoned Farmlands Could Become Key Players in Combating Climate Change

Farmland is often a battleground in the fight against climate change.Solar panels and energy crops are pitted against food production, while well-intended policy choices can create incentives for farmers to till up new lands, releasing even more heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.

31 May 2024

Charting a Course for Energy Efficiency: Strategies for Transforming China's Public Buildings

As China cements its status as the world's largest energy consumer, it has set ambitious targets for achieving carbon neutrality, pledging to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and attain carbon neutrality by 2060.

31 May 2024

Rare-Earth Metal Catalysis for Green Ammonia Production

Ammonia is the starting point for the fertilizers that have secured the world’s food supply for the last century. It’s also a main component of cleaning products, and is even considered as a future carbon-free replacement for fossil fuels in vehicles.

31 May 2024

Significant Breakthrough in Coral Reef Monitoring

For the first time, new research has mapped the intertidal coral reefs of the Rowley Shoals off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia using drone technology and state-of-the-art analytical techniques.

31 May 2024