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Innovate UK Funds Project to Optimize Celtic Sea Floating Wind Platform

Innovate UK funded a project to optimize a floating offshore wind platform called PelaFlex for the Celtic Sea. Swansea University is collaborating on the project, which aims to leverage locally sourced materials and fabrication techniques to reduce costs.

18 Jun 2024

Innovative Reactor Designs Boost CO2 Mineralization Efficiency Using Fly Ash

The relentless march of industrialization has corresponded with a surge in CO2 emissions, a key driver of global warming.

17 Jun 2024

FSU Researchers Lead Sustainable Solutions with $600,000 Seed Grant

Four Florida State University researchers are helping lead the way in developing sustainable solutions to challenges facing the global community, thanks to support from the Office of the President's Sustainability and Climate Solutions seed grant investment.

17 Jun 2024

Global Warming Threatens Hudson Bay Polar Bears with Longer Ice-Free Periods

Recent research by Julienne Stroeve and colleagues, published in Communications Earth & Environment, projects that global warming would extend the Hudson Bay’s ice-free period, hence shortening the resident polar bears’ hunting season.

14 Jun 2024

International Team of Researchers Tackle Solar Panel Recycling

RMIT University is spearheading a worldwide network of researchers dedicated to advancing the reuse and recycling of solar panels, which can include precious materials like lead and tin.

14 Jun 2024

A Project Converts Biodegradable Plastic Waste Into Green Energy

Recovering biodegradable plastic waste through anaerobic co-digestion treatment with sludge from sewage treatment plants (STP) to obtain a biogas stream that can be used as an energy vector and a digestate for agriculture.

14 Jun 2024

Terminally Sterilised Plastic Bottled Media Range Launched to Support Sustainability Initiatives

Cherwell, cleanroom microbiology solutions expert, has introduced a new Redipor® Plastic Bottle prepared media range in response to a request from a large pharmaceutical company for support in meeting its sustainability targets.

From Cherwell Laboratories 14 Jun 2024

H2SITE Builds the Most Efficient Ammonia Cracker to Produce Fuel-Cell Purity Hydrogen for the Ammogen Project in the UK

H2SITE has designed and constructed the most efficient ammonia cracker utilizing membrane reactor technology to produce fuel cell-grade hydrogen for the Ammogen Project located at Tyseley Energy Park (TEP).

From H2SITE 14 Jun 2024

Study Finds ERA5-Land Superior for Renewable Energy Planning in Coastal Colombia

A recent study published in the journal Sustainability evaluated the performance of two reanalysis datasets for estimating solar radiation, wind speed, and temperature in La Guajira, Colombia's coastal region.

By Muhammad Osama 13 Jun 2024

Historic Regulations Lead to Decrease in Harmful Ozone-Depleting Chemicals

A new study by an international team of researchers, published today in Nature Climate Change, has revealed significant progress in the drive to reduce atmospheric levels of chemicals that destroy the Earth’s protective ozone layer, confirming the success of historic regulations limiting their production and use.

12 Jun 2024

North American Bird Populations Face Greater Decline by Century’s End Due to Climate Change

Following decades of decline, even fewer birds will darken North American skies by the end of the century, according to a new analysis by scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

12 Jun 2024

Nitrous Oxide Emissions Soared 40 Percent from 1980-2020, Greatly Accelerating Climate Change, New Study Led by Boston College Scientists Finds

Emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane – continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10-million metric tons were released into the atmosphere primarily through farming practices, according to a new report led by Boston College scientists for the Global Carbon Project.

12 Jun 2024

Study on Climate Change Control with ML Named Best Paper

The Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), held in Vienna, Austria, and remotely in May, awarded a best paper award to a group that is exploring and utilizing machine learning to predict weather.

11 Jun 2024

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Hilux Project Reaches Demonstration Phase

A ground-breaking project to develop a hydrogen fuel cell Toyota Hilux pick-up has moved to its final phase, signalling another milestone in Toyota’s progress towards a zero carbon future.

11 Jun 2024

Floating Solar Panels Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy and Water Conservation

Researchers have explored the global potential of floating solar photovoltaics (FPVs), a renewable energy technology that involves installing solar panels on water surfaces.

By Muhammad Osama 11 Jun 2024