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Eco-SIM Card from Thales and Veolia: The SIM Card Made from Recycled Refrigerators

With almost 4.5 billion SIM cards produced worldwide in 2020, Thales and Veolia have joined forces to help this market show its green credentials.

24 Mar 2021

Study Explores How El Nino-Southern Oscillation Impacts Hydroclimate Over the Tibetan Plateau

El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a recurring climate phenomenon involving changes in the temperature of waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. It is one of the most important climate perturbations on Earth because it can change the global atmospheric circulation, which in turn, influences temperature and precipitation across the globe.

23 Mar 2021

Study Explains Why Commercial Carbon Capture and Sequestration Ends in Failure

According to scientists from the University of California, San Diego, there are 12 crucial traits that describe why commercial carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects fail or succeed in the United States.

23 Mar 2021

Eroded Seabed Rocks Provide Key Source of Nutrition for Marine Organisms

According to a new study, drifting sea organisms at the bottom of the food chain are receiving an essential source of nutrition from eroded seabed rocks.

23 Mar 2021

Big Breakthrough for 'Massless' Energy Storage

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fibre that serves simultaneously as an electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material. Their latest research breakthrough paves the way for essentially ’massless’ energy storage in vehicles and other technology.

23 Mar 2021

Land Life Company Partners with Lundin Energy to Reduce Carbon Emissions at Scale

Reforestation company Land Life and Lundin Energy have joined forces to work on a high-impact, tech-driven and multi-geography reforestation programme that consists of projects on degraded land.

From Land Life Company 23 Mar 2021

New Study Helps Differentiate Local from Global Sources of Plutonium Pollution in Soil

Scientists analyzed extremely low levels of plutonium pollution present in the soils and made a discovery that could power future “clean up” operations on land near nuclear power plants, which would be time- and cost-efficient.

22 Mar 2021

New Method to Synthesize Cyclic Carbonates from Atmospheric CO2

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) together with their collaborators from the Czech Republic have discovered a new technique to synthesize cyclic carbonates from atmospheric CO2.

22 Mar 2021

Tropical Species are Migrating Northward in the U.S. Due to Warming Winters

Notwithstanding last month's cold snap in Texas and Louisiana, climate change is leading to warmer winter weather throughout the southern U.S., creating a golden opportunity for many tropical plants and animals to move north, according to a new study appearing this week in the journal Global Change Biology.

22 Mar 2021

Emphasizing Urgency Alone is not Sufficient to Kindle Public Support for Major Climate Policies

In light of recent extreme climate events--from wildfires blazing through the western US to snowstorms sweeping Texas into a blackout--climate scientists and media outlets have repeatedly called out the urgency of tackling the climate crisis. But in a new study published March 19 in the journal One Earth, researchers found that emphasizing urgency alone is not enough to kindle public support for climate change policies.

22 Mar 2021

Water Led Path To Zero Emission Mining

Water is at the heart of a new effort by Australia’s copper industry to achieve zero emission mining as it starts a ‘deep tech dive’ in to how to use it far more efficiently.

22 Mar 2021

New First-Time Study to Examine the Impact of Ocean Noise Pollution on Ireland’s Marine Life

Ireland’s first real-time acoustic monitoring project of cetacean species (whales, dolphins and porpoise) was launched this week off the South Coast of Ireland, with the goal of creating a near real-time detection model for these species and examining the impact rising ocean noise pollution is having on Ireland’s marine life.

22 Mar 2021

WELTEC BIOPOWER Builds Biogas Plant in Finland

WELTEC BIOPOWER recently commissioned a biogas plant near Turku in southwestern Finland. This region is characterised by livestock farms and therefore the 250-kW plant runs entirely on liquid manure. The energy plant belongs to a group of three pig farmers. In this project, the German plant builder cooperates with its long-standing Finnish partner Doranova.

From WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH 22 Mar 2021

New Water Fountain Launches that Saves Plastic and Helps Provide Clean Drinking Water to Developing Nations

Consumers keen to do their bit to tackle single-use plastic by refilling their water bottles will now also have the opportunity to provide clean drinking water to some of the world’s poorest communities at the click of a button, thanks to an innovative new fundraising initiative arriving in the UK this week.

22 Mar 2021

Snow Cover has Been Declining in the Alps, Study Shows

The results, published in the renowned scientific journal The Cryosphere, have made it possible to reliably describe snow trends at up to 2000 metres above sea level. Higher than that, there are too few measuring stations to be able to extract reliable information for the entire Alpine region.

19 Mar 2021