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Using Greener Plastics to Help Japan Meet Carbon-Neutral Goals

News - 27 Sep 2023

Japan has an issue with plastic. The country is the second highest producer of plastic waste per capita, owing in part to an excess of packaging. Multicriteria assessment of virgin, recycled and...

Self-Sustaining Solar-Driven Sea Farms Could Help Address Looming Global Water and Food Shortages

News - 12 Sep 2023

The sun and the sea – both abundant and free – are being harnessed in a unique project to create vertical sea farms floating on the ocean that can produce fresh water for drinking and...

Empire State Development Announces Application Window Opens for Round Five of the Grow-NY Business Competition

News - 15 Jun 2023

Empire State Development (ESD) today announced that the application window is now open for round five of the Grow-NY food and agriculture competition. Image Credit: Empire State...

Using Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement as a Potential Way to Remove CO2 from the Atmosphere

News - 8 Jun 2023

With human-induced greenhouse gases fueling global climate change, there is an urgent need to bolster emissions reductions with large-scale carbon dioxide removal. Scientists are looking at a...

Six Ways the MIT Community is Making a Difference on Climate

News - 23 May 2023

From reuse and recycling to new carbon markets, events during Earth Month at MIT spanned an astonishing range of ideas and approaches to tackling the climate crisis. The MIT Climate Nucleus offered...

Multilab Consortium Investigates Separation Technologies for Different Applications

News - 22 May 2023

Biomass, which includes organic material derived from plants, agricultural waste, and wet waste, has been used since man first began burning wood to cook food or keep warm and animal fats to light...

Novel Technique Detects an Alarming Volume of Methane Emissions from Wildfires

News - 20 Apr 2023

UC Riverside researchers have recently utilized a novel detection technique to uncover an alarming volume of methane emissions from wildfires, a potent greenhouse gas. Intriguingly, this emission...

A New Sustainable Plastic Upcycling Process

News - 24 Feb 2023

Grocery bags, used face masks, and food wrappers contain plenty of potentially useful raw materials. However, in the past, it has proven to be much more economical to keep manufacturing more...

Converting Shredded, Single-Use Plastic Wastes to Useful Materials

News - 3 Feb 2023

Researchers are integrating tried-and-true technologies (let's unleash bacteria on the biodegradables then heat up the leftovers) and developing new ones (let's try plasma that shoots...

Greener Ammonia: A Green Revolution

News - 17 Jan 2023

With the growing population, climate action has become increasingly critical and is a major challenge to modern industry. When it comes to supporting a growing global population, food production is...