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New Minerals Show Promise for Sequestering Atmospheric CO2 in Mine Waste

A new study performed by University of Alberta geologists and their collaborators has confirmed that carbon is being captured and stored by new minerals.

13 Dec 2018

Study Examines the Effect of Climate Change on U.S. Agriculture

A new research headed by Cornell University has revealed that Midwest agriculture is becoming more and more susceptible to climate change owing to the region’s dependence on the cultivation of rain-fed crops.

13 Dec 2018

New Hybrid Technology Makes it Easier to Capture and Purify CO2 Produced by the Cement Industry

Cement production contributes to 7% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Now, a novel hybrid technology makes it less costly and easier to capture and purify CO2 generated by the cement industry, and added to this, the technology can be retrofitted to existing cement plants.

12 Dec 2018

Superheated Steam from Novel Device Could be Used for Industrial Processes and to Produce Drinking Water

Engineers at MIT have developed a device that absorbs enough heat from the sun to boil water and generate “superheated” steam hotter than 100 °C, without the need for expensive optics.

12 Dec 2018

Stanford Scientists Reveal How Human-Generated Carbon Dioxide Could Reshape Oceans

Something strange is taking place in the blue waters off the rocky cliffs of Ischia, Italy. There, streams of gas-filled volcanic bubbles rising up to the surface are drastically altering life around them by turning the seawater acidic.

12 Dec 2018

New MIT Reports Propose Practical Emissions-Reduction Strategies for Latin America and Southeast Asia

The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), presently assembling in Katowice, Poland, amid grim warnings from the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C and the National Climate Assessment regarding the speed of climate change and severity of its effects, strives to get the world on track to maintain global warming much below 2 °C.

11 Dec 2018

Bio-on and Hera Join Forces to Setup LUX-ON for Producing Bioplastic from CO2

High-quality bioplastic leader Bio-on, and Gruppo Hera, one of Italy’s major multi-utility providers, have struck a deal to take 90% and 10% shares, respectively (with the likelihood of Hera increasing its share to 49.9%) in LUX-ON, the new company founded by Bio-on aiming to transform the manufacture of PHAs biopolymers using CO2 taken from the atmosphere and generating energy without the need of fossil fuels.

11 Dec 2018

Study Shows Ozone Depletion Mitigates Ongoing Loss of Antarctica’s Ice Sheet Mass

According to a new study conducted at the University of Colorado Boulder, depletion of ozone layer has resulted in increased snowfall across Antarctica in the past decades, partly alleviating the ongoing loss of the ice sheet mass of the continent.

11 Dec 2018

Study Reveals Expansion of Bioenergy Crop Production Could Be as Bad for Biodiversity as Climate Change

According to a new study, a large-scale expansion in bioenergy crop production could be just as harmful to biodiversity as climate change itself.

11 Dec 2018

Research Reveals Humans Are Reversing Long-Term Cooling Trend Tracing Back 50 Million Years

The future of humans on Earth could also be their past.

11 Dec 2018

Study Looks at Potential Implications of Shifting to Plant-Based Plastics

Usually, bioplastics are promoted as a climate- and eco-friendly alternative to traditional plastics based on petroleum. However, according to a new study conducted by the University of Bonn, transitioning to plant-based plastics may have less positive impacts than anticipated.

10 Dec 2018