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Employing Biological Materials to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Valuable Products

Assistant Professor Ariel Furst and her colleagues are looking to DNA to help guide the process.

8 Sep 2022

Urban Integrated Field Laboratories to Strengthen DOE Leadership in Climate Modeling

The Texas Gulf Coast, Chicago, and Baltimore will receive $66 million in financing from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to create Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (Urban IFLs). This initiative will involve more than 20 institutions.

7 Sep 2022

Precision Compost Strategy Could Deliver Huge Benefits to the Planet

A new way of using compost could boost global crop production and deliver huge benefits to the planet, according to a study co-led by The University of Queensland.

7 Sep 2022

Novel Perovskite Catalysts Convert Greenhouse Gases into Valuable Products

Methane and CO2 can be converted into useful products. But up until this point, the catalysts needed for these reactions quickly lost their potency. Now, TU Wien has created more reliable alternatives.

2 Sep 2022

Sustainable Human Exploration of Mars

MIT researchers have devised the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), which has been generating an oxygen supply and could help answer some of the questions about how to make the most of an atmosphere abundant in carbon dioxide.

1 Sep 2022

Wastewater Reuse Becomes Major Health Threat

Reclaimed water is often used in metropolitan areas. Persistent microorganisms in recovered water, on the other hand, have been frequently detected and identified as the greatest health risk associated with wastewater reuse.

29 Aug 2022

Towards Better and Sustainable Weather Forecasting in the Southern Hemisphere

The high-latitude region of the Southern Hemisphere suffers from erroneous weather forecasting owing to an infrequent distribution of observation networks.

26 Aug 2022

Study Paves Way for Widespread Architectural Use of End-of-Life Tyres

A new study by The University of South Australia has tested and verified the structural integrity of walls constructed from tyres packed with earth, with the results potentially providing new opportunities for the reuse of end-of-life tyres in the construction industry.

24 Aug 2022

Could Propane Be the Secret to Greener Air Conditioning?

A recent study led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, suggests that the secret to greener air conditioning could lie in using propane, a clean-burning alternative fuel, as a refrigerant.

18 Aug 2022

Lowering the Cost of Sustainable Solar Fuel Production

The University of Cambridge researchers created flexible, ultra-thin electronics that are inspired by photosynthesis, the mechanism through which plants turn sunlight into food.

18 Aug 2022