Bitcoin Is As Costly to Environment As Beef Production
Taken as a share of the market price, the environmental costs of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin are more comparable to the climate damages of…
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Lights, Catalyst, Reaction! Photoreduction of CO2 Into Transportable Fuel
Converting CO2 to Formic Acid Using an Alumina-Supported, Iron-Based Compound Photoreduction of CO2 into transportable fuel like formic acid (HCOOH) is a great way of…
Trees Might Not Be As Effective at Combating Climate Change As We Thought
Questions remain about what variables limit tree growth New research from an international team of researchers reveals that tree growth seems to be restricted by…
Liquid Platinum at Room Temperature: The “Cool” Catalyst for a Sustainable Revolution in Industrial Chemistry
Catalysts are substances that can speed up chemical reactions, which is very important for industrial chemistry. However, for some reactions, platinum makes an excellent catalysts,…
Wildfire, Drought, and Insects: Climate Change Increases Risks of Tree Death
Planting a tree appears to be a generally positive thing to do for the environment. After all, trees take in carbon dioxide, offsetting some of…
Cutting Air Pollution Emissions Would Save 50,000 U.S. Lives and $600 Billion Each Year
Eliminating air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States would prevent more than 50,000 premature deaths each year and provide more than $600…
Patent-Pending Technology Converts “Waste” Carbon Into Valuable Chemicals and Useful Elements
Patent-pending process removes biofuel contaminants from wastewater using an additive-free process that generates hydrogen to fuel its own operation The holy grail of biofuel researchers…
A Better Way To Separate Gases: New Kind of Membrane Works With 1/10 the Energy and Emissions
A new membrane material could make purification of gases significantly more efficient, potentially helping to reduce carbon emissions. Industrial processes for chemical separations, including natural…
Importing Canadian Energy To Drastically Reduce Carbon Emissions
Power flowing both ways across the Canada–U.S. border offers a pathway to clean electricity in 2050. The urgent need to cut carbon emissions has prompted…
NASA Makes First-of-Its-Kind Detection of Reduced Human CO2 Emissions
For the first time, researchers have spotted short-term, regional fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) across the globe due to emissions from human activities. Using…
Could the Internet Be Driven by Climate-Friendly “Natural Intelligence?”
Global network of solar-powered servers shows how. The energy requirements of the Internet, the devices and systems using it and the servers that support it…
Relocating Farmland Could Increase Biodiversity and Turn Back Clock 20 Years on Carbon Emissions
Scientists have produced a map showing where the world’s major food crops should be grown to maximize yield and minimize environmental impact. This would capture…
Tropical Methane Emissions Explain More Than 80% of Recent Changes in Global Atmospheric Methane Growth Rate
An international team of researchers has revealed that tropical terrestrial methane (CH4) emissions explain more than 80% of the observed changes in the global atmospheric…
Engineered Bacteria Convert Captured Carbon Dioxide Into Valuable Chemicals for Fuels, Fabric, and Cosmetics
Engineered Bacteria Upcycle Carbon Waste Into Valuable Chemicals Bacteria are known for breaking down lactose to make yogurt and sugar to make beer. Now researchers…
MIT Scientists Overcome a Major Bottleneck in Carbon Dioxide Conversion
Study reveals why some attempts to convert the greenhouse gas into fuel have failed, and offers possible solutions. If researchers could find a way to…
Earth’s Most Important Biochemical Reaction: Photosynthesis Breakthrough for Increasing CO2 Uptake in Plants
A group of proteins in plant cells plays a vastly more important role in regulation of photosynthesis than once thought, according to new research at…
Transforming the Plastic Lifecycle Into a Circle
360 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced in 2018. Here’s where it all went, and why the world must transform plastic use from…
Free Green Electricity and Public Transport Could Substantially Reduce Emissions
Using carbon tax revenue to fund free green electricity and public transport could significantly reduce individual households’ greenhouse gas emissions, a new study has found. …
