UK mega-lab generates weather to test homes of future
Simulated snow covers a car and the walls of one of two houses built in a lab to develop future ...
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Industry and community must work together for a hydrogen future, say researchers
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Investment in the hydrogen economy is accelerating at unprecedented rates, but a large misalignment between industry ...
NZ Business owners see cutting carbon emissions as ‘the right thing to do,’ despite the challenges of making change
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An increasing number of businesses in Aotearoa New Zealand are changing how they operate to reduce ...
Humanoid robots to take centre stage at UN meet on AI
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Eight humanoid robots will be the star attractions when the United Nations hosts its first summit ...
Green energy investment tops $1 trillion, matches fossil fuels
Investment in sectors such as renewables, nuclear, zero-emission vehicles or recycling projects totalled $1.1 trillion last year, according to BloombergNEF. ...
A way to produce hydrogen directly from untreated sea water
Schematic diagram of three-electrode configuration for seawater electrolysis. Note that the pH meter was placed 1.0 cm from the electrode ...
New research could divert a billion pounds of clothes and other fabric items from landfills
Credit: Unsplash Canadians trash about a billion pounds—nearly 500 million kilograms—of fashion and home items made of fabric each year, ...
Climate misinformation ‘rocket boosters’ on Musk’s Twitter
A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco, Dec. 8, 2022. New research shows climate misinformation has been ...
Installing solar-powered refrigerators in developing countries can reduce hunger and slow climate change
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Food loss and waste are major problems around the world. When food is tossed aside or ...
How science and supercomputers help utilities adapt to climate change
Credit: Shutterstock Northern Illinois traditionally enjoys four predictable seasons. The winters are notoriously cold and the summers just hot enough ...
Robert Downey Jr. Is Giving Away His Car Collection For Climate Change
Robert Downey Jr. is doing his part for the environment.The “Iron Man” star recently sat down for a conversation with The ...
Antarctic rover performs research in the snow
Team POLAR's rover Ice Cube in the Norwegian snow. Credit: Laurenz Edelmann, team POLAR Team Polar, a student team at ...
Why Ghana relies heavily on used cars
Used cars are popular all over Africa. Credit: Wikimedia Commons The sale of electric cars is growing. Globally, some 2 ...
Opinion: Degrowth solutions won’t solve global warming
Climate change, pandemics, Putin’s madness and China’s ambitions threaten humanity with droughts and floods of biblical proportions, nonnavigable rivers and disappearing island nations, fractured global supply chains ...
Australia requires more water to lead the way on green hydrogen
To produce green hydrogen, electricity from a renewable source is used to split water molecules – H₂O – into hydrogen ...
Policy, climate, war make 2022 ‘pivot year’ for clean energy
Steam rises from the coal-fired power plant near wind turbines in Niederaussem, Germany, as the sun rises on Nov. 2, ...
Cash crops: Dutch use bitcoin mining to grow tulips
Warmth from bitcoin mining servers heats the tulip greenhouse near Amsterdam, saving on energy bills. Tulips and bitcoin have both ...
Electric car sales drive toward cleaner air, less mortality
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Electric cars—and their continued sales growth—are expected to have a greener, cleaner influence on air pollution ...
Could video streaming be as bad for the climate as driving a car? Calculating Internet’s hidden carbon footprint
The Internet is anything but immaterial, as all those messages, images, and videos live in data centres, which consume immense ...
Clean Air Act dramatically cut vehicle pollution, but inequities remain
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The 1972 Clean Air Act has driven spectacular decreases in pollution from U.S. passenger vehicles but ...
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