In a breakthrough that could lead to a new class of materials with functions found only in living systems, scientists at the UC Berkeley have figured out a way to keep certain […]
Researchers Create A Protein ‘mat’ That Can Soak Up Pollution
Before Reefs Become Deserts: Keeping Coral Healthy In Hawaii
Researchers develop novel approach to understand both human and environmental impacts on coral reef health across the Hawaiian Islands. Many of Hawaii’s once-thriving coral reefs are now struggling to recover from recent […]
Mission-oriented Innovation Could Stimulate Growth While Tackling Plastic In Seas, Dirty Cities And Dementia
A plastic-free ocean, 100 carbon neutral cities by 2030 and cutting dementia by 50% are highlighted as examples of missions that could drive innovation and economic growth in a report for the […]
How Urban Farmers Are Learning To Grow Food Without Soil Or Natural Light
Growing food in cities became popular in Europe and North America during and immediately after World War II. Urban farming provided citizens with food, at a time when resources were desperately scarce. […]
Clean Energy: Experts Outline How Governments Can Successfully Invest Before It’s Too Late
Researchers distil twenty years of lessons from clean energy funding into six ‘guiding principles’. They argue that governments must eschew constant reinventions and grant scientists greater influence before our “window of opportunity” […]
Conservationists’ Eco-Footprints Suggest Education Alone Won’t Change Behaviour
A new study shows that even those presumably best informed on the environment find it hard to consistently “walk the walk”, prompting scientists to question whether relying solely on information campaigns will […]
‘Super Emitters’ Responsible For More Than Half Of U.S. Methane Emissions
Stanford study finds that just a few natural gas wells account for more than half of all leaked methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas, in the United States. The bulk of methane […]
Renewable Energy, A Sustainable Way To Tackle The Energy Access Challenge
“More than a billion people worldwide don’t have access to electricity,” says Samson Hadush, postdoctoral researcher in the Energy Centre. “Four of this year’s Global Social Projects help to lift communities out of […]
Carbon Dioxide Can Be Stored Underground For Ten Times The Length Needed To Avoid Climatic Impact
Study of natural-occurring 100,000 year-old CO2 reservoirs shows no significant corroding of ‘cap rock’, suggesting the greenhouse gas hasn’t leaked back out – one of the main concerns with greenhouse gas reduction proposal […]
Biodiversity Should Be Focus Of Businesses’ Efforts To Mitigate Their Environmental Impact, Says New Report
Biodiversity, the variety of plant and animal life in the world, is a fundamental component of ‘natural capital’ that businesses are dependent upon but which often gets overlooked in assessments of their […]
Solar Impulse Lands In The Silicon Valley Completing The Crossing Of The Pacific Ocean With Several World Records
Mountain View, 24 April 2016 – Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) – the first solar airplane capable of flying day and night without using a drop of fuel – left Hawaii on 21 […]
Bertrand Piccard Will Takeoff Today With Solar Impulse
The completion of the Pacific Crossing Solar Impulse will take off for its ninth flight from Hawaii to Mountain View, California at 4PM UTC / 6PM CET / 6AM HT. The first Mission […]
Turning Electric Vehicles Into Profitable Virtual Power Plants
During the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, it was agreed that global warming must stay under 2 degrees Celsius. To achieve this, countries will have to speed up the transition […]
Vast Energy Value In Human Waste
Biogas from human waste, safely obtained under controlled circumstances using innovative technologies, is a potential fuel source great enough in theory to generate electricity for up to 138 million households — the […]
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