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New Model to Estimate Energy Usage and Emissions in Commercial Buildings

The building sector in the U.S. accounts for 39 percent of energy use, with commercial buildings responsible for about half of that.

23 Jul 2021

Researchers Create New Environmentally Friendly Bioplastic from Cellulose and Water

Plastics offer many benefits to society and are widely used in our daily life: they are lightweight, cheap and adaptable. However, the production, processing and disposal of plastics are simply not sustainable, and pose a major global threat to the environment and human health.

23 Jul 2021

Researchers Develop Genome Techniques to Analyze Adaptation of Cattle

Jared Decker, a fourth-generation cattle farmer, has been aware of cattle suffering from health and productivity problems when they are moved from one location to another. The shift is from a region where they had spent generations to another place with a different climate, grass, or elevation.

23 Jul 2021

Aggressive Approaches Needed to Curtail CO2 Emissions

Policymakers of California depend in part on shrublands and forests to remove CO2 from the atmosphere to attain the ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. However, scientists at the University of California, Irvine caution that future climate change might limit the ecosystem’s ability to provide this service.

23 Jul 2021

Plastic Free Mersey Project Launched Today in Liverpool

Two major rivers trusts are joining forces to work with communities, researchers, and businesses in the plastics supply and waste management chain to identify plastic litter types in the Mersey catchment.

23 Jul 2021

Study Analyzes Life-Cycle GHG Emissions from Passenger Cars

A far-reaching new study of the life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger cars, including SUVs, draws sharp and meticulous distinctions between the climate impacts of battery and fuel cell electric vehicles on one hand and combustion vehicles on the other.

22 Jul 2021

Challenges in Improving Carbon Capture

In the race to combat climate change, capturing carbon dioxide emissions has been touted as a simple road to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

22 Jul 2021

Better Building Management Could Help Enhance Efficiency, Flexibility of Electric Grid

In the United States, buildings consume about 75% of the electricity, which implies that they have a huge ability to save energy and decrease the demand on the swiftly changing electric grid.

22 Jul 2021

Monash University and West Java Government Partner to Revitalise Polluted Citarum River

Monash University and the Provincial Government of West Java, Indonesia today signed a Letter of Intent to collaborate on developing new solutions to restore the Citarum River – one of the most polluted rivers in t...

22 Jul 2021

Staffordshire University's Crime Scene Tape Set to Revolutionise Microplastics Research

Forensic scientists have developed a new method to help monitor plastic pollution across the world.

22 Jul 2021

Study Explores Potential Role of Indus Basin in Global Sustainable Development

Hydropower holds exceptional potential as a source of clean electricity. Researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) investigated the role of the Indus basin as a support for global sustainable development and its ability to fulfill energy demands across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

21 Jul 2021

Countries Could Face an Increased Risk of Malnutrition as Climate Change Threatens Fisheries

Millions of people in countries around the world could face an increased risk of malnutrition as climate change threatens their local fisheries.

21 Jul 2021

Stopping Wind Energy Expansion in Beautiful Landscapes may Increase Power Generation Costs

Wind energy is of outstanding importance to the energy transition in Germany. According to the Federal Statistical Office, its share in total gross electricity production of about 24% is far higher than those of all other renewable energy sources.

21 Jul 2021

Tree-Ring Records Reveal Precipitation Variability in the Asian Summer Monsoon

Chinese researchers along with international colleagues recently reported a 6,700-year-long, precisely dated and well-calibrated tree-ring stable isotope chronology from the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau.

21 Jul 2021

Sinking Organic Carbon Loading Forever Alter Seafloor Records

The remains of microscopic plankton blooms in near-shore ocean environments slowly sink to the seafloor, setting off processes that forever alter an important record of Earth's history, according to research from geoscientists, including David Fike at Washington University in St. Louis.

21 Jul 2021