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New Evidence Boosts Scientific Community’s Confidence in Climate Modeling

For several years, researchers investigating a key climate occurrence have been contending with contradictory data that has threatened to destabilize confidence in the dependability of climate models on the whole.

25 Jun 2019

Bio-Based Blue Pigment Could Offer Sustainable Alternative to Synthetic Dyes

Usually, the discoveries of essential scientific research are several steps away from a product that can be instantly brought to the general public. However, opportunity makes an early appearance every once in a while.

24 Jun 2019

Natural Gas Used to Harvest Hydrogen-Natural Gas Hydrates

A hydrogen-natural gas blend (HNGB) can become a revolutionary concept only if it is stored safely and utilized as a sustainable clean energy resource.

24 Jun 2019

Telia Carrier Provides Global Connectivity to the World’s First Climate Positive Data Center, EcoDataCenter

Telia Carrier announced today its partnership with EcoDataCenter, the world’s first climate positive data centre.

20 Jun 2019

Research on Wind Power Facilitates the Energy Transition in Sweden

The Swedish Wind Power Technology Center (SWPTC) has been collecting and developing knowledge in partnership with industry since 2010, and currently is a national knowledge industry for wind power technology.

19 Jun 2019

Study on Climate Change Offers Sobering Glimpse of Possible Social Upheavals

The latest study of climate changes and their impact on earlier societies provides a sobering signal of social disturbances that might occur in the future.

18 Jun 2019

EPFL Chemists Develop an Efficient Process for Converting Carbon Dioxide into Carbon Monoxide

EPFL chemists have created an efficient process for transforming carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, the main component of synthetic fuels and materials.

14 Jun 2019

Researchers Develop Recyclable, Metal-Free, Next-Generation Catalyst to Lower CO2

Japanese scientists have produced an inexpensive, readily available, and recyclable organic catalyst for the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2).

14 Jun 2019

Researchers Examine Circular Carbon Economy to Protect the Earth

Several efficient ways have been devised by Earth for preserving the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2)—from sequestration by oceans and forests to the formation of fossil fuels and limestone by organisms that have been dead for a long time.

14 Jun 2019

A New 3D Printed Device Could Turn Waste Heat into Electrical Power

A new 3D printed thermoelectric device, which turns heat into electric power with an efficiency factor more than 50% higher than the earlier best for printed materials — and is inexpensive to produce in mass scale — has been produced by scientists at Swansea University’s SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre.

14 Jun 2019