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Electric Vehicles Could Save Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars in Chicago

News - 21 Sep 2023

If the Chicago region replaced 30% of all on-road combustion-engine vehicles - including motorcycles, passenger cars and trucks, buses, refuse trucks and short- and long-haul trucks - with...

Retrofitting the World's Iron and Steel Processing Plants Early Could Reduce Carbon Emissions

News - 21 Sep 2023

Upgrading, or retrofitting, the world's iron and steel processing plants early could reduce carbon emissions by up to 70 gigatonnes by 2050, roughly equivalent to two years' worth of net...

Semifinalists Announced for $1 Million USD Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge

News - 21 Sep 2023

Semifinalists for the third annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge have been announced and 38 teams of innovators will now vie for a part of $1 million USD across three award...

Trio of Sentinel Satellites Map Methane Super-Emitters

News - 21 Sep 2023

Why Methane Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is the second-largest contributor to climate warming after carbon dioxide. Image Credit: ESA A...

Economists Explore Policies to Limit Climate-Altering Deforestation

News - 20 Sep 2023

Imagine if France, Germany, and Spain were completely blanketed in forests — and then all those trees were quickly chopped down. That's nearly the amount of deforestation that occurred...

New Database Tracks Clean Energy Investments in Real Time

News - 19 Sep 2023

Investments in new technologies and infrastucture that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions — everything from electric vehicles to heat pumps — are growing rapidly in the United States....

SolarEV City Concept Could Be Viable in High-Latitude Cities Like Paris

News - 19 Sep 2023

The iconic city of Paris is synonymous with climate change, thanks in part to it being where the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change agreement was adopted. Now, a research group has investigated the...

AstraZeneca Advances UK Clean Heat and Energy Efficiencies With £100m Commitment

News - 14 Sep 2023

Powering AstraZeneca’s transition to net zero, the Company has agreed a 15-year partnership with Future Biogas to establish the UK’s first unsubsidised industrial-scale supply of...

Capturing CO2 from the Air for Eco-Friendly Methanol Production

News - 14 Sep 2023

West Virginia University researchers have taken the initial steps toward creating technology that can absorb carbon dioxide in the air and use it for environmentally friendly methanol production. The...

Shifting to Plant-Based Food Alternatives Could Yield Huge Improvements for Biodiversity

News - 13 Sep 2023

Replacing 50% of meat and milk products with plant-based alternatives by 2050 can reduce agriculture and land use related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 31% and halt the degradation of forest and...