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Versalis and Montello to Develop New Range of PE Products Made from Recycled Packaging

Versalis and Montello have signed an agreement to develop a new range of polyethylene products made from recycled packaging.

From Montello S.p.A 20 Jun 2019

Telia Carrier Provides Global Connectivity to the World’s First Climate Positive Data Center, EcoDataCenter

Telia Carrier announced today its partnership with EcoDataCenter, the world’s first climate positive data centre.

20 Jun 2019

Rapid Evaluation Method for the Optimization of Photocatalysts

Photocatalysts that absorb light energy and use it to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen gain considerable scholarly interest because of the influence of hydrogen as a promising clean energy source.

19 Jun 2019

Use of Edible Plants to Biomonitor Atmospheric Pollution

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid jointly assessed the use of edible plants in the biomonitoring of air pollution.

19 Jun 2019

Research on Wind Power Facilitates the Energy Transition in Sweden

The Swedish Wind Power Technology Center (SWPTC) has been collecting and developing knowledge in partnership with industry since 2010, and currently is a national knowledge industry for wind power technology.

19 Jun 2019

Boaty McBoatface Studies Changing Temperatures at the Bottom of Southern Ocean

For the first time, the first mission of the autonomous submarine vehicle Autosub Long Range (popularly referred to as “Boaty McBoatface”) has cast light on an important process that links increasing Antarctic winds with elevating sea temperatures.

18 Jun 2019

Study on Climate Change Offers Sobering Glimpse of Possible Social Upheavals

The latest study of climate changes and their impact on earlier societies provides a sobering signal of social disturbances that might occur in the future.

18 Jun 2019

Seaweed Feed Supplement May Not be a Viable Option to Fight Climate Change

According to researchers at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), using seaweed in the place of cattle feed may considerably reduce methane gas belched by livestock.

18 Jun 2019

New Method to Break Down Carbohydrates into Single Sugar Components

An international partnership headed by researchers from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, has created a two-step technique to disintegrate carbohydrates more efficiently into single sugar components.

17 Jun 2019

Scientists Use New Approach to Eliminate Antibiotics in Water

An innovative method has been used by Chinese researchers to achieve a broader application of the Fenton system, which is regarded as one of the most popular techniques used for eliminating antibiotics in water.

17 Jun 2019

First Installation of Midsummer´S New Improved Integrated Solar Cell Roof Carried out in Kivik, Sweden

Midsummer’s new and slimmer energy-producing solar cell roof, ”Midsummer solar roofs”, have been successfully installed on a house in Kivik, in the southern part of Sweden.

From Midsummer AB 14 Jun 2019

€2m to Boost Cyber Power Behind Wind Energy Production

The University of Nottingham is leading a €2m High Performance Computing (HPC) project to optimise the sustainable exploitation of wind power in both the European and Brazilian energy markets.

14 Jun 2019

EPFL Chemists Develop an Efficient Process for Converting Carbon Dioxide into Carbon Monoxide

EPFL chemists have created an efficient process for transforming carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, the main component of synthetic fuels and materials.

14 Jun 2019

Researchers Develop Recyclable, Metal-Free, Next-Generation Catalyst to Lower CO2

Japanese scientists have produced an inexpensive, readily available, and recyclable organic catalyst for the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2).

14 Jun 2019

Researchers Examine Circular Carbon Economy to Protect the Earth

Several efficient ways have been devised by Earth for preserving the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2)—from sequestration by oceans and forests to the formation of fossil fuels and limestone by organisms that have been dead for a long time.

14 Jun 2019