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New Squeezable Glass Bottles Offer Solution to Plastic Pollution

Clowd Foundry LLC, an innovative design firm, has announced its patent-pending technology for squeezable glass and hybrid bottles.

13 Jan 2023

Ocean Temperatures Continued Setting New Records in 2022

Continuous ocean temperature records, rising stratification, and shifting patterns of water salinity provide a glimpse into what the future may hold in a climate that is constantly warming.

12 Jan 2023

UCI Research is at the Heart of Recovering the Ozone Layer

On Jan. 9, a United Nations-backed panel of experts announced that Earth's protective ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, closing an ozone hole over the Antarctic that was first noticed in the 1980s.

12 Jan 2023

Scientists Reveal Links Between Monsoon Rains and Tropical Cyclones in Australia

Cornell College William Harmon Norton Professor of Geology Rhawn Denniston and a team of collaborators have combined stalagmites and climate model simulations to reveal links between monsoon rains and tropical cyclones (called hurricanes in the U.S.) in Australia.

12 Jan 2023

Researchers Highlight the Opportunities for Mitigating Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

About a quarter of the world's electricity currently comes from power plants fired by natural gas.

12 Jan 2023

Electric Vehicle-Owning U.S. Households Could Reduce Bills and Carbon Footprint

Drivers in Washington, California, and New York are set to see the greatest reductions in transport costs and greenhouse gas emissions due to a combination of cleaner power grids and low electricity prices in comparison to gasoline prices, among other factors.

12 Jan 2023

Groundbreaking Catalyst Technology Reduces the Cost of Manufacturing Renewable Chemicals

A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has invented a groundbreaking new catalyst technology that converts renewable materials like trees and corn to the key chemicals, acrylic acid, and acrylates used in paints, coatings, and superabsorbent polymers.

12 Jan 2023

Sunlight Exposure Aids the Survival of Corals Worldwide

According to new research from Pennsylvania State University, what occurs above the water’s surface is just as crucial to maintaining the world’s coral reefs as what occurs below it.

12 Jan 2023

Arctic’s Vegetation and its Significant Impact on Energy Flow

Climate change has caused the Arctic to warm nearly four times more quickly than the rest of the planet since 1979.

12 Jan 2023

Hystar Raises USD 26mn to Scale up to Full Commercial Operations

Hystar AS, the Norwegian high-tech hydrogen company, today announces a Series B funding round of USD 26mn to rapidly scale-up to full commercial operations with an automated GW-capacity production line by 2025. The injection of capital, raised through equity, will also be used to fuel Oslo-headquartered Hystar’s growth, expansion into new markets, and ability to deliver on larger (100 MW and beyond) projects.

From Hystar 11 Jan 2023

Identifying the Relative Role of Control Factors over Decomposition

Recent research conducted by the University of Stirling, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, discovered that climate is the major factor in determining how rapidly dead plants decompose, allowing researchers to make more precise estimations about carbon emissions and climate change globally.

11 Jan 2023