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ORNL Study: Enhancing Urban Sustainability Through Vegetation Resilience

Local decision-makers looking for ways to reduce the impact of heat waves on their communities have a valuable new capability at their disposal: a new study on vegetation resilience.

9 May 2024

Argonne's Revolutionary Approach to Zero-Carbon Ironmaking Technology

Argonne National Laboratory will be receiving $3 million over three years to lead a project on developing a technology for ironmaking with zero carbon emissions and lower required energy.

9 May 2024

Veolia Uses Enzymes in World-First Trial to Remove Carbon Dioxide with Enhanced Rock Weathering

Veolia, the UK’s leading resource management company, has partnered with UK biotechnology startup, FabricNano, to apply enzymes to rocks to trial faster, permanent carbon dioxide removal directly from the atmosphere.

8 May 2024

New Chemical Conversion Process Makes Diesel Out of Plastic Waste

A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory recently developed a chemical conversion process that makes diesel out of plastic waste.

6 May 2024

DIY Mini Split Systems: The Green Choice for Energy-Efficient Cooling and Heating

As the world continues to face the consequences of climate change, it has become more important than ever to find ways to reduce the worlds carbon footprint and save energy.

2 May 2024

New Technology Promises a Silver Lining for Port Pirie: Cleaning up Marine Environment and Recovering Valuable Metals Worth Millions

New Australian technology could help recover up to $40 million worth of valuable metals from Port Pirie’s contaminated sites and help restore the local marine environment.

2 May 2024

Transforming CO2 into Sustainable Aviation Fuel

A research group led by Professor Fei Wei and Chenxi Zhang at Tsinghua University has published a perspective study in the journal Carbon Future.

30 Apr 2024

UQ Turns CO2 Into Sustainable Power

University of Queensland researchers have built a generator that absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2) to make electricity.

18 Apr 2024

Australia and Singapore Partner in $20M Initiative to Reduce Maritime Emissions

Australia and Singapore, which is home to the world’s busiest transshipment hub, have partnered on a $20 million initiative to help reduce emissions in the maritime sector.

17 Apr 2024

One Click LCA Launches Biodiversity Net Gain Tool to Help Developers Tackle New UK Regulations and Combat Nature Depletion

One Click LCA, the global leader in construction life-cycle assessment software, announced today, at their Carbon Experts Summit event in London, the launch of a new Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG???????) tool for British developers.

16 Apr 2024