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EVs won’t be enough for automakers to hit Paris climate targets. What can OEMs do?
28/11/2023
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Even if millions of people buy battery-electricvehicles, automakers could still fall short of hitting goals setunder the Paris Agreement on climate change. On the eve of COP28, anew...
Three reasons why removing grazing animals from Australia's arid lands for carbon credits is a bad idea
28/11/2023
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If you run a large polluting facility and can't work out how to actually cut emissions, you might buy carbon credits to offset your emissions from the Australian Carbon Credit Unit Scheme. These...
Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science
28/11/2023
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A Perspective article published today in Nature Geoscience tackles the longstanding issue of gender representation in science, focusing on the field of ice core science.
Extreme rainfall increases exponentially with global warming: Study
28/11/2023
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State-of-the-art climate models drastically underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming, according to a study published Monday that signals a future of more frequent...
A new map points at the impacts of rare earth elements
28/11/2023
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A map created by the Debt Observatory in Globalization in collaboration with the EJAtlas of Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the...
Human rights law demands climate change adaptation, researchers say
28/11/2023
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Continued high emissions of greenhouse gases mean the well-being of all people now depends on profound changes in policies and practices to effect climate change adaptation.
Boosting PET recycling with higher standards for laboratory experiments
28/11/2023
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Many enzymes promise to break down plastic. But what works in the lab often fails on a large scale. Now a new study by Gert Weber, HZB, Uwe Bornscheuer, University of Greifswald, and Alain Marty,...
Researchers engineer a material that can perform different tasks depending on temperature
28/11/2023
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Researchers report that they have developed a new composite material designed to change behaviors depending on temperature in order to perform specific tasks. These materials are poised to be part of...
Six recycling innovations that could change fashion
28/11/2023
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The fashion industry's enormous waste problem is pushing governments, particularly in Europe, towards ambitious recycling targets.
Next generation semiconductors: Diamond device shows highest breakdown voltage
28/11/2023
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To reach the world's goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, there must be a fundamental change in electronic materials to create a more reliable and resilient electricity grid. A diamond might be a...
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27/11/2023
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Sustainability experts said the difference between suppliers’ desired alloy mix and what is currently in the scrap stream is an obstacle to creating a closed-loop recycling system. ...
Scientists 'fingerprint' methane to track a climate change culprit
27/11/2023
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Methane is the second-most abundant greenhouse gas in Earth's atmosphere, and its emissions have been rapidly—and mysteriously—rising since 2007. Though pervasive, the origin of the colorless...
Heat, disease, air pollution: How climate change impacts health
27/11/2023
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Growing calls for the world to come to grips with the many ways that global warming affects human health have prompted the first day dedicated to the issue at crunch UN climate talks starting next...
All-weather solar-powered CO₂ utilization achieved by mimicking natural photosynthesis
27/11/2023
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In a study published in National Science Review, researchers from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with collaborators, have used the charge...
Recycling cigarette waste to produce green fuel
27/11/2023
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Stricter environmental norms and fossil fuel pollution call for cleaner fuels such as biodiesel. This vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel is biodegradable—up to four times faster than...
New method verifies carbon capture in concrete
27/11/2023
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Carbon capture is essential to reduce the impact of human carbon dioxide emissions on our climate. Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Nagoya University in Japan have developed a method to...
Panel: Better tech can make recycled aluminum more desirable
27/11/2023
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A panel of metal-recycling experts said the biggest challenge facing the recycling industry is that the composition of materials coming from the stream of scrapped vehicles does not match the...
Using AI to track icebergs
26/11/2023
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Researchers are using a new AI tool to detect icebergs in the Southern Ocean. This is the first step in being able to track the complete life cycle of most icebergs across Antarctica from satellite...
AI detects methane plumes from space, could be powerful tool in combating climate change
26/11/2023
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University of Oxford researchers, in partnership with Trillium Technologies' NIO.space, have developed a tool to automatically detect methane plumes on Earth from orbit using machine learning with...
Pharmaceutical effluent evokes superbugs in the environment: A call to action
26/11/2023
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global threat, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), causing prolonged illnesses, heightened antimicrobial use, increased health care...
Air pollution behind over 250,000 deaths in Europe in 2021: agency
26/11/2023
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Fine particle pollution caused the deaths of over 250,000 people in the European Union in 2021, according to a report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) published Friday.