Sustainability News
May 21, 2024
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May 17, 2024 — An international team of scientists has revealed high levels of toxic metals in global phosphate fertilizers using a isotopic variants of the element strontium as a tracer to uncover metals in soil, ...
Decarbonization Dynamics: New Analysis Unveils Shifting Trends in the Voluntary Carbon Offset Market
May 20, 2024 — Researchers have conducted a worldwide analysis of voluntary carbon offset programs and identified trends into which types of carbon reduction technologies are selected and prioritized. Their ...
May 17, 2024 — Recognizing and respecting the different ways nature is valued can enable better environmental decision-making, according to new ...
May 17, 2024 — A new commentary paper puts forth a transformative solution to the unsustainable reliance on fossil resources by the chemical industry: catalysis to leverage sustainable waste resources, ushering the ...
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May 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed a groundbreaking data-driven model to predict the dehydrogenation barriers of magnesium hydride, a promising material for ...
May 16, 2024 — Researchers have found that persimmon tannin, known for its antioxidant properties, improves the growth of yeast in the presence of ...
May 16, 2024 — The treatment of animals rates higher than green issues when consumers choose meat and dairy products. That's according to a new study, which ...
May 16, 2024 — The new technique will map the top of the aquifer, called the 'water table,' spanning areas as large as hundreds of kilometers using a radar mounted ...
May 15, 2024 — A new article has found that climate change is the most prominent threat to pollinators -- such as bumblebees, wasps, and butterflies -- who are essential for biodiversity conservation, crop yields ...
May 15, 2024 — Semiconductors are the foundation of all modern electronics. Now, researchers have developed a new method where organic semiconductors can become more conductive with the help of air as a dopant. The ...
May 10, 2024 — The discovery of how a critical enzyme 'hidden in nature's blueprint' works sheds new light on how cells control key processes in carbon fixation, a ...
May 16, 2024 — After spinning for under two years, a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated across its entire 30-year lifespan, when compared to thermal power ...
May 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method that can lead to significant energy savings in buildings. The team identified 28 major heat loss regions in a multi-unit residential building with the most ...
May 14, 2024 — Even the most optimistic projections for the rapid build-out of solar, wind, and other low-carbon resources acknowledge that coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuels will dominate the world's energy ...
Earlier Headlines
May 14, 2024 — A prototype of a more durable material increases the biodegradability of food packaging, partially replacing its bioplastic with cellulose fibers extracted from the branches and leaves of the avocado ...
May 14, 2024 — A team of scientists has developed a novel technique to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) from treated flue gas directly into high-value chemicals and fuels. This innovation sidesteps the conventional ...
May 9, 2024 — A method has been discovered to treat water heavily contaminated with unhealthful forever chemicals, known by chemists as PFAS or poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances. It involves treating heavily ...
May 9, 2024 — Researchers report a new method that reduces the amount of iridium needed to produce hydrogen from water by 95%, without altering the rate of hydrogen production. This breakthrough could ...
May 8, 2024 — Freshwater bacteria with small genomes frequently undergo prolonged periods of adaptive stagnation. Based on genomic analyses of samples from European lakes, researchers uncovered specific ...
May 7, 2024 — In the ever-expanding search for energy resources, a new study has emerged from Mozambique's Maniamba Basin. Mozambique's Maniamba Basin could be a big source of natural ...
May 6, 2024 — To preserve the important intertidal areas and salt marshes off our coasts for the future, we need more turbid water. That is one of the striking conclusions from a new ...
May 6, 2024 — By using experimental electrochemical analyses, mass spectrometry, and computational quantum chemistry modeling, the researchers created an 'atomic-scale storyline' to explain how ozone is ...
May 6, 2024 — Drones monitoring fields for weeds and robots targeting and treating crop diseases may sound like science fiction but is actually happening already, at least on some experimental farms. Researchers ...
May 3, 2024 — New research suggests that countries' current plans to remove CO2 from the atmosphere will not be enough to comply with the 1.5 C warming limit set out under the Paris ...
May 2, 2024 — Scientists have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment and the surrounding ...
May 2, 2024 — The alarming rates of biodiversity loss worldwide have made clear that the classical way of governing biodiversity recovery based on protected areas and programs for the protection of endangered ...
May 1, 2024 — Reaching net-zero carbon emissions goals requires finding transformative paths to manage carbon in difficult-to-electrify economic ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Carbon emissions associated with air travel to professional conferences make up a sizable fraction of the emissions produced by researchers in ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — A team of researchers has investigated the motivation and potential incentives for and challenges of low-intensity grazing among farmers and land users in ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Researchers have developed a chemical process using plasma that could create sustainable jet fuel from methane gas emitted from landfills, potentially creating a low-carbon aviation ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Electric bicycle rebates have exploded in popularity in North America as transportation planners try to get people out of their cars and into healthier, more climate-friendly alternatives. However, ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Europe's forests have already been severely affected by climate change. Thousands of hectares of trees have already died due to drought and bark beetles. Scientists have now investigated which ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Greening the way we eat needn't mean going vegetarian. A healthy, more realistic solution is to adopt a flexitarian diet where seafoods add umami to 'boring' vegetables. A ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Scientists have shed light on a new, transformative approach that could help resolve a dispute over the Nile river's water ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- Avocado Pruning Residues Used to Produce More Sustainable Food Packaging
- Transforming Waste Carbon Dioxide Into High-Value Chemicals With a Cost Reduction of About 30%
Thursday, May 9, 2024
- New 'forever Chemical' Cleanup Strategy Discovered
- Manganese Sprinkled With Iridium: A Quantum Leap in Green Hydrogen Production
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
- Turbid Waters Keep the Coast Healthy
- The Clues for Cleaner Water
- AI to Make Crop Production More Sustainable
Friday, May 3, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- New Eco-Friendly Lubricant Additives Protect Turbine Equipment, Waterways
- To Bend the Curve of Biodiversity Loss, Nature Recovery Must Be Integrated Across All Sectors
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Astronomers Share Climate-Friendly Meeting Solutions
- Low-Intensity Grazing Is Locally Better for Biodiversity but Challenging for Land Users, a New Study Shows
- Methane Emissions from Landfill Could Be Turned Into Sustainable Jet Fuel in Plasma Chemistry Leap
- E-Bike Incentives Prove to Be Worth the Investment
Monday, April 29, 2024
- How Can Forests Be Reforested in a Climate-Friendly Way?
- Fixin' To Be Flexitarian: Scrap Fish and Invasive Species Can Liven Up Vegetables
Friday, April 26, 2024
- Energy Trades Could Help Resolve Nile Conflict
- Genetic Hope in Fight Against Devastating Wheat Disease
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- New Offshore Wind Turbines Can Take Away Energy from Existing Ones
- Climate Change Could Become the Main Driver of Biodiversity Decline by Mid-Century
- Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action
- Scientists Released Long-Term Data of Ground Solar-Induced Fluorescence to Improve Understanding of Canopy-Level Photosynthesis
- Scientists Replace Fishmeal in Aquaculture With Microbial Protein Derived from Soybean Processing Wastewater
- Key to Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Human Activities Have an Intense Impact on Earth's Deep Subsurface Fluid Flow
- Securing Competitiveness of Energy-Intensive Industries Through Relocation: The Pulling Power of Renewables
- This Salt Battery Harvests Osmotic Energy Where the River Meets the Sea
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Clearing the Air: Wind Farms More Land Efficient Than Previously Thought
- Global Study Reveals Health Impacts of Airborne Trace Elements
- Plant Sensors Could Act as an Early Warning System for Farmers
- Making Crops Colorful for Easier Weeding
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Coral Reef Microbes Point to New Way to Assess Ecosystem Health
- Trash to Treasure -- Researchers Turn Metal Waste Into Catalyst for Hydrogen
- Most Countries Struggle to Meet Climate Pledges from 2009
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Global North Energy Outsourcing Demands More Attention
- GeoAI Technologies for Sustainable Urban Development
- Switch to Green Wastewater Infrastructure Could Reduce Emissions and Provide Huge Savings According to New Research
- Pyrite, Also Known as Fool's Gold, May Contain Valuable Lithium, a Key Element for Green Energy
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Scientists Create Octopus Survival Guide to Minimize Impacts of Fishing
- Using CO2 and Biomass, Researchers Find Path to More Environmentally Friendly Recyclable Plastics
- New Report 'braids' Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Forest Adaptation Strategies Against Climate Change
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Atmospheric and Economic Drivers of Global Air Pollution
- This 3D Printer Can Figure out How to Print With an Unknown Material
- New Four-Terminal Tandem Organic Solar Cell Achieves 16.94% Power Conversion Efficiency
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- For Mining in Arid Regions to Be Responsible, We Must Change How We Think About Water
- Unleashing Disordered Rocksalt Oxides as Cathodes for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries
- Magnetic Fields Boost Clean Energy
- Groundbreaking Research in Groundwater's Role in Ecosystem Sustainability
- Are Universities Connected to Local Sustainability? A New Study Suggests Yes...and No.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Elastocaloric Cooling: Refrigerator Cools by Flexing Artificial Muscles
- A New Estimate of U.S. Soil Organic Carbon to Improve Earth System Models
- Scientists' Urgent Call: End Destruction and Forge a Just, Sustainable Future
- Companies Ignoring Climate Risks Get Punished by Markets, New Study Reveals
- AI Writing, Illustration Emits Hundreds of Times Less Carbon Than Humans, Study Finds
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- Manganese Plays a Surprising Role in Soil Carbon Sequestration
- Researchers Discover Key Gene for Toxic Alkaloid in Barley
- Study Unlocks the Power of Visible Light for Sustainable Chemistry
- Open Waste Burning Linked to Air Pollution in Northwestern Greenland
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Food Matters: Healthy Diets Increase the Economic and Physical Feasibility of 1.5°C
- Artificial Reef Designed by MIT Engineers Could Protect Marine Life, Reduce Storm Damage
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Curbside Collection Improves Organic Waste Composting, Reduces Methane Emissions
- Climate Change Will See Australia's Soil Emit CO2 and Add to Global Warming
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Research Lights Up Process for Turning CO2 Into Sustainable Fuel
- Pairing Crypto Mining With Green Hydrogen Offers Clean Energy Boost
- Cool Paint Coatings Help Pedestrians Feel Up to 1.5 Degrees Celsius Cooler in Urban Setting
- Small Changes Can Yield Big Savings in Agricultural Water Use
- Better Phosphorus Use Can Ensure Its Stocks Last More Than 500 Years and Boost Global Food Production
- Major Environmental Benefits Recycling Gold With Biodiesel
- Maize Genes Control Little Helpers in the Soil
- New Route to Recyclable Polymers from Plants
Friday, March 22, 2024
- All Countries' Agri-Environmental Policies at a Glance
- Researchers Take Major Step Toward Developing Next-Generation Solar Cells
Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Say Hello to Biodegradable Microplastics
- Alaska Native Tribes Take Lead on Shellfish Toxin Testing Where State Falls Short
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Monday, March 18, 2024
- Harnessing Hydrogen at Life's Origin
- Transforming Wood Waste for Sustainable Manufacturing
- Sustainable Plastics from Agricultural Waste
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- Drought, Soil Desiccation Cracking, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Overlooked Feedback Loop Exacerbating Climate Change
- 'Find Pearls in the Soil' Unveiling the Magic of Hydrogen Production from Municipal Sewage
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Friday, March 8, 2024
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Harmful 'forever Chemicals' Removed from Water With New Electrocatalysis Method
- Plant Lavender, Marjoram and Ivy on Your Green Wall to Clean Up the Air
- Gen Z's Climate Anxiety Is Real and Needs Action -- For Everyone's Wellbeing