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New Report Attempts to Address the Burden of Marine Plastic Pollution

Many people are aware of plastic pollution in the oceans. Photos of turtles or seabirds entangled in plastic garbage first went viral in the 1990s, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now the focus of highly publicized cleanup efforts.

11 Jan 2023

Nonstationary Flood Frequency Analysis Techniques Reviewed

Due to recent changes in the climate, land use, infrastructure, and population expansion, more people than ever are at risk from flooding. To avoid physical and economic damage, it is essential to precisely estimate flood frequency and severity.

10 Jan 2023

A Versatile Photoelectrochemical Platform for CO2 Conversion

Scientists, utilizing the energy from the Sun, devised a system that transforms plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products.

10 Jan 2023

Turntide Recognised by Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Its Innovative Hyperdrive Battery Technology

The team behind Turntide Technologies’ Hyperdrive battery systems have won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for its innovative technology that is helping to decarbonise industry and transportation.

10 Jan 2023

Ecosystems in Western Parts of Southeastern Australia Feel the Impact of Climate Change

A new study led by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) has shown that ecosystems in western parts of southeastern Australia – including western Victoria and western Tasmania – may be most at risk of feeling the impacts of climate change in the coming decades.

10 Jan 2023

Decline in the Number of Fish Parasites Linked to Ocean Warming

More than a century of preserved fish specimens offer a rare glimpse into long-term trends in parasite populations.

10 Jan 2023

New Method Converts Plastic Waste into Useful Char

University of California, Riverside, scientists have moved a step closer to finding a use for the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste produced every year that often winds up clogging streams and rivers and polluting our oceans.

10 Jan 2023

Plankton Could Hold Key for Understanding Link Between Ocean Pollution and Human Health

Plankton may offer a way to monitor historical marine pollution trends, and could be used to predict trends in human health, according to new research.

10 Jan 2023

Testing the Potential of Space-Based Solar Power

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been working on testing and unlocking the potential of space-based solar power (SBSP) on the recently launched Caltech Space Solar Power Project (SSPP).

By David J. Cross 9 Jan 2023

Coral Reefs Subjected to Threatening by Hidden Heatwaves

Extreme and prolonged thermal bleaching has been experienced by the coral reefs next to the French Polynesian island of Moorea located in the central South Pacific Ocean.

9 Jan 2023

Loss of Glacial Mass Greater than Previously Projected

How will our glaciers change during the 21st century? In a new study whose findings are published in Science (5 January), an international team1, including scientists from the CNRS and Université Toulouse III–Paul Sabatier, has demonstrated a loss of glacial mass greater than earlier projected—and specifically, 11% to 44% higher than estimates used in the most recent IPCC report.

9 Jan 2023

Fundamental Mechanisms of Bio-Inspired Water-Driven Electricity Generators

Raindrops, evaporating water, and even moisture in the air are all potentially sources of decentralized clean electricity generation, but many of the technologies that take advantage of this ambient and vast source of energy—many of which are inspired by the electricity harvesting techniques of plants and animals—remain at the lab-bench stage.

9 Jan 2023

UK Solar Innovator Naked Energy Continues European Expansion with New Partnerships

British solar thermal design and engineering company Naked Energy today announces further international expansion after partnering with two leading European manufacturing firms.

From Naked Energy Ltd. 9 Jan 2023

Australian Government's Chubb ACCU Review Announced Today Gives Those in Restoration Economy Confidence to Grow, says Nativ Carbon

Western Australian company Nativ Carbon – which has just undertaken one of the biggest ever environmental reforestation projects to date for ACCUs in Western Australia – has welcomed the findings of an Australian Government’s review on Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) announced today.

9 Jan 2023

Valmet to Convert Two Coal-Fired Boilers to Enable Biomass Combustion for Veolia Group’s Subsidiary in Hungary

Valmet will deliver boiler conversions and emission reduction solutions for Veolia Group’s Hungarian subsidiary CHP-Invest Kft at its power plant in Oroszlány, Hungary.

From Valmet 9 Jan 2023