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The Green Techprepeneur Partners with Climate-Marketplace, to Launch a Global Multi-Faceted Platform Supporting and Linking Greentech Startups with Investors

The Green Techprepeneur can today announce its partnership with climatetech investor database Climate-Marketplace, as well as the launch of the new Green Techpreneur platform for climatetech and startups, enabling introductions for startups to the right accelerators and founders.

10 May 2023

Argonne-Led Project Aims to Help Neighborhoods Understand and Adapt to Chicago’s Changing Climate

Climate change is bringing flooding, heat islands and extreme weather to Chicago. An Argonne-led project from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Urban Integrated Field Laboratory will help neighborhoods understand and adapt to the city’s changing climate.

9 May 2023

Climate Warming Reduces the Diversity of Soil Archaea

Led by Jizhong Zhou, Ph.D., the director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma, an international research team conducted a long term experiment that found that climate warming reduced the diversity of and significantly altered the community structure of soil archaea.

9 May 2023

Canada’s e-Waste has More Than Tripled in the Last Two Decades, Research Finds

New research finds that Canada's electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) has more than tripled in the last two decades, the equivalent of filling the CN tower 110 times and generating close to a million tons in 2020 alone.

9 May 2023

Engineered Bacteria Could Provide a Powerful Route to Sustainable Biochemicals

A research team led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley has engineered bacteria to produce new-to-nature carbon products that could provide a powerful route to sustainable biochemicals. The advance could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of fuels, drugs, and chemicals.

9 May 2023

International Project Aims to Build Community Resilience to Climate Change Effects

An international project to build community resilience to the effects of climate change, launched by Community Jameel and a research team at MIT, has been recognized as an innovation sprint at the 2023 summit of the United States' and United Arab Emirates' Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM4C).

9 May 2023

Research Shows Clear Evidence of Human "Fingerprint" on Climate Change

New research provides clear evidence of a human "fingerprint" on climate change and shows that specific signals from human activities have altered the temperature structure of Earth's atmosphere.

9 May 2023

New Supply Chain Model Reveals Optimal Places for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists led the development of a supply chain model revealing the optimal places to site farms, biorefineries, pipelines and other infrastructure for sustainable aviation fuel production.

9 May 2023

Pharmaceutical Producers Could Reduce Environmental Impact by Roughly Half

In a first-of-its-kind analysis, Cornell University researchers and partners found that pharmaceutical producers could reduce their environmental impact by roughly half by optimizing manufacturing processes and supply chain networks and by switching to renewable energy sources.

9 May 2023

UCI/NASA Team Uncovers a New Way in Which the Ice and Ocean Interact

While conducting a study of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uncovered a previously unseen way in which the ice and ocean interact.

9 May 2023

Review Emphasizes Need to Tackle Air Pollution

Air pollution is a severe threat to public health worldwide. Ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which consists of minute particles suspended in the air with a diameter of less than or equal to 2.5 µm, is a major air pollutant connected to health hazards.

9 May 2023

Understanding Viral Infections Within Complex Microbial Food Webs

Microbes perform important functions in ecosystems, and these functions are shifting as a result of global warming. Scientists now know that most microorganisms are infected with viruses, but they know very little about how these viral infections can affect how microbes respond to warming.

9 May 2023