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Study Suggests a New Consumption-Based Climate Target

As per the new research report commissioned by the Swedish Parliament, several measures have to be taken in combination by Sweden to come any closer to emission levels as per the Paris Agreement.

8 Apr 2022

Utilizing Solar Energy to Improve the Performance of Zinc-Air Batteries

Zinc-air batteries, which produce electricity through a chemical reaction between oxygen in the atmosphere and zinc, are considered to be next-generation candidates to meet the explosive demand for electric vehicles instead of lithium-ion batteries.

8 Apr 2022

Invertebrates Living in High Mountain Streams can Indicate Ecosystem Health

A new tool can better assess an important but overlooked indicator of global warming: the variety of bugs, worms, and snails living in high mountain streams.

8 Apr 2022

Landslide and Tsunami Signal Climate-Related Threat at a Melting Glacier

In 2020, seismologist Goran Ekström noticed a peculiar wiggle picked up on Nov. 28 by seismographs around the world. It emanated from a remote area in British Columbia's steep, glaciated Central Coast Mountains, some 2,400 miles from Ekström's office at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, in Palisades, N.Y.

8 Apr 2022

MIT's Student-Led Conference Focuses on Decarbonizing Some of the Most Difficult Industries

This year's MIT Energy Conference, the largest student-led event of its kind, included keynote talks and panels that tackled some of the thorniest remaining challenges in the global effort to cut back on climate-altering emissions.

8 Apr 2022

Ancient Microbes Reduce Gas Bill and CO2

Producing gas in your own backyard has become a real alternative to dependence on imported gas thanks to innovative processes. Essential for this are technologies to enhance the fermentation processes as well as methods for gas purification developed for the automotive industry.

From Krajete GmbH 8 Apr 2022

CSIRO's Future Science to Tackle Energy Storage, Carbon Locking, Immune Resilience and the Bioeconomy

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, will invest $50 million over the next five years in four new programs to drive critical breakthroughs in tough national challenges.

8 Apr 2022

New Internal Power Generation Technology can Detect Tyre Wear

In a joint project between Falken’s parent company Sumitomo Rubber Industries and Professor Hiroshi Tani of Kansai University, Japan, a new sensor to measure tyre wear has been developed which will help engineers to create longer lasting tyres.

8 Apr 2022

Experts Gather to Discuss the Success of Policies Designed to Tackle the Global Plastic Pollution Crisis

Experts from around the globe are meeting this week to analyze the success of policies that have been specifically developed to handle the plastic pollution crisis that is taking place globally.

7 Apr 2022

Study Provides First Near-Global Estimate of Aboveground Forest Biomass and the Carbon it Stores

A significant milestone has been reached by NASA’s GEDI mission with the liberation of its latest data product. This offers the first near-global evaluation of aboveground forest biomass and the amount of carbon it stores—thereby filling a main gap in climate research.

7 Apr 2022

Study Illustrates Slow-Down in Summer Warming and Ice Loss in Greenland Over the Past Decade

Researchers at Hokkaido University Japan have explained the confusing, ten-year-old deceleration in summer warming throughout Greenland.

7 Apr 2022

A New Method for Converting Plastic Waste into Hydrogen

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new method for plastic waste to be converted into hydrogen based on pyrolysis, a high temperature chemical process.

7 Apr 2022

Study Shows How Fabric Conditioners, Dryer Sheets can Reduce Airborne Fiber Pollution

A new study has revealed that tumble drying a load of laundry releases almost the same amount of potentially harmful microfibres into the air as those released down the drain during machine washing of the same load.

7 Apr 2022

ATC Drivetrain Opens Electric Vehicle Battery and Powertrain Lab in North America

ATC Drivetrain (“ATC”), a leading independent global remanufacturer of automotive powertrain and drivetrain systems, announced today that it has launched remanufacturing capabilities for electrified vehicle systems at its Oklahoma City, Okla. facility to serve the North American automotive market.

From ATC Drivetrain 7 Apr 2022

Chevron Joins Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation

Chevron announced an agreement to join the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD). Chevron’s involvement aims to help support GCMD’s efforts to develop potentially scalable lower carbon technologies – including those that enable the use of ammonia as a maritime fuel – and the commercial means to enable their adoption.

7 Apr 2022