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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

Safe, Sustainable Storage for Renewable Energy Sources

MIT researchers have developed a new type of fast-charging battery, which is composed of abundant materials that are relatively cheap, and could meet sustainable energy storage needs in today’s world.

By David J. Cross 25 Aug 2022

Facing Water Scarcity with Hybrid Desalination Technologies

KIST researchers have created solar and hydrothermal energy-based membrane distillation techniques. By using these specialized membrane distillation technologies for the features of the geographical climate, system efficiency is expected to be maximized.

25 Aug 2022

Developing New R&D Methods for a Greener Mining

Moving to greener technology has become a necessity in every aspect of human life as the globe deals with the global climate issue. Naturally, businesses that are essential to daily lives are implementing such technologies into their operations.

25 Aug 2022

New Aluminum-Sulfur Battery Could Provide Low-Cost Backup Storage for Renewable Energy

As the world builds out ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to provide power when the sun is down and the air is calm. Today's lithium-ion batteries are still too expensive for most such applications, and other options such as pumped hydro require specific topography that's not always available.

25 Aug 2022

Novel Tool for Assessing the Impacts of Ozone-Destroying Substances

Researchers have developed a new method for assessing the impacts of ozone-destroying substances that threaten the recovery of the ozone layer.

25 Aug 2022

Warming Oceans Could Reduce the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Decomposing Kelp

Kelp forms vast seaweed forests along temperate coastlines, which sequester large amounts of atmospheric carbon.

25 Aug 2022

Understanding How Communities View the Acute Threat of Climate Change

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects up to 10 hurricanes this season, with as many as six storms between Category 3 and Category 6, threatening lives and increasing the risk to residential and commercial infrastructure in coastal regions.

24 Aug 2022

Study: The Average American Underestimates How Much Fellow Citizens Support Climate Policy

Just after the U.S. Congress passed the nation's most substantial legislation aimed at battling climate change, a new study shows that the average American badly underestimates how much their fellow citizens support substantive climate policy.

24 Aug 2022

Gradual Cooling of Ocean Temperatures has Increased Body Size of Fishes

Earth's geological history is characterized by many dynamic climate shifts that are often associated with large changes in temperature.

24 Aug 2022

The Cenozoic Climate Change: The Influence of Tibetan Uplift and Global Cooling

The Paleoecology Research Group (PRG) of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is in command of this study.

24 Aug 2022

Expanding the Frontiers of Plastic Recycling with New Method

The plastic waste that are released into the environment has garnered a lot of attention due to ocean trash and overcrowded landfills.

24 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

Super-Fast Charging Method to Optimize Electric Vehicles

Despite the fact that electric cars are becoming more and more popular, many people are still hesitant to switch.

23 Aug 2022

Conversion of Plastic Waste to Useful Chemicals

Boosting conversion to useable products while using less of the valuable metal ruthenium is the purpose of a plastics recycling innovation that was presented at the American Chemical Society’s fall meeting in Chicago on August 22nd, 2022.

23 Aug 2022