Sustainability News
May 16, 2024
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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 mix for decades to come. If the vast greenhouse ...
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 contaminated water with ultraviolet (UV) light, ...
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 ...
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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 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 ...
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 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 generated ...
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 — 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 — The alarming rates of biodiversity loss worldwide have made clear that the classical way of governing biodiversity recovery based on protected areas ...
May 1, 2024 — Reaching net-zero carbon emissions goals requires finding transformative paths to manage carbon in difficult-to-electrify economic ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Researchers have developed a chemical process using plasma that could create sustainable jet fuel from methane gas emitted from landfills, ...
Earlier Headlines
May 2, 2024 — Scientists have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment and the surrounding ...
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 — 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 ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Fungal disease Fusarium head blight (FHB) is on the rise due to increasingly humid conditions induced by climate change during the wheat growing season, but a fundamental discovery could help reduce ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Interactions between wind turbines could reduce power output by 30% in proposed offshore wind farm areas along the East Coast, new research has found. In all, the farms could still meet 60% of the ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study. Projections show climate change could become the main ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Companies' emissions reduction targets should not be the sole measure of corporate climate ambition, according to a new perspective ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — A recent study utilized ground-based instruments to measure solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) that reflect plant health and ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Scientists have successfully replaced half of the fishmeal protein in the diets of farmed Asian seabass with a 'single cell protein' cultivated from microbes in soybean processing ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — A team of researchers has made a significant breakthrough in the field of organic ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Hydrologists predict human-induced underground fluid fluxes to rise with climate change mitigation strategies like carbon ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Countries with limited potential for renewables could save up to 20 percent of costs for green steel and up to 40 percent for green chemicals from green hydrogen if they relocated their ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Estuaries -- where freshwater rivers meet the salty sea -- are great locations for birdwatching and kayaking. In these areas, waters containing different salt concentrations mix and may be sources of ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A nontoxic separation process recovers critical minerals from electronic scrap ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Oases are important habitats and water sources for dryland regions, sustaining 10% of the world's population despite taking up about 1.5% of land area. But in many places, climate change and ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — The EU wants to ensure greater sustainability in agricultural trade with the Global South -- with the aim of minimizing the environmental and climate-damaging effects of importing crops such as soya, ...
Thursday, May 2, 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
- 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
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Turning Waste Into Gold
- Researchers Improve the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
- Small Dietary Changes Can Cut Your Carbon Footprint by 25%
- Researchers Use AI, Google Street View to Predict Household Energy Costs on Large Scale
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- EU Countries Have Seen a Decade of Progress Towards Their 2030 Sustainable Energy Goal
- Creepy Crawlies Protect Apples When Flowers Are Planted on Farms
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Monday, February 26, 2024
- Reforestation Schemes Are Not Enough to Recover the Carbon Created by Harvesting Wood
- Robots, Monitoring and Healthy Ecosystems Could Halve Pesticide Use Without Hurting Productivity
Friday, February 23, 2024
- Common Plant Could Help Reduce Food Insecurity
- UBC Okanagan Researchers Look to the Past to Improve Construction Sustainability
- Wetlands, Parks and Even Botanical Gardens Among the Best Ways to Cool Cities During Heatwaves