Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 - Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn't need a wireless or mains power source. Or a pacemaker with inbuilt organic energy sources within the human body. Australian researchers led by Flind
Washington (AFP) Oct 22, 2020 - Microsoft and Alaska Airlines announced a partnership Thursday to use sustainable jet fuel to offset emissions from the technology giant's employee travel.
Brussels (AFP) Oct 22, 2020 - NATO chief Jen Stoltenberg said Thursday a military hotline set up by the alliance could help prevent clashes in the eastern Mediterranean, but urged Greece and Turkey to engage on a political level.
Nomi, Japan (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 - The use of biomass-derived plastics is one of the prime concerns to establish a sustainable society, which is incorporated as one of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the use of most of th
Caracas (AFP) Oct 22, 2020 - Venezuela's opposition warned of a potential environmental catastrophe Thursday as a damaged oil tanker threatened to spill 1.3 million barrels of crude into waters separating Venezuela from Trinidad and Tobago.
Bayreuth, Germany (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 - Chemists at the University of Bayreuth have developed a material that could well make an important contribution to climate protection and sustainable industrial production. With this material, the g
Mam Rostam, Iraq (AFP) Oct 21, 2020 - Iraq's Kurdish region has for decades lived off its oil wealth, but plummeting energy prices amid the pandemic and financial mismanagement are forcing locals to return to long abandoned farms.
Golden CO (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 - Popular wisdom holds that tall, fast-growing trees are best for biomass, but new research by two U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories reveals the size of trees is only part of the equatio
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 - Month-on-month, year-on-year, the world continues to experience record high temperatures. In response to this and exacerbated by a growing global population, it is expected that air-conditioning dem
Paris (AFP) Oct 20, 2020 - Tens of thousands of Ugandan farmers have lost access to their fields to make way for a major oil project launched by French oil giant Total, which has paid no compensation for the fallout from its new pipeline plan, two environmental watchdogs said Tuesday.
Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Oct 20, 2020 - Greenpeace on Tuesday criticised the European Central Bank for bias in its bond purchases that favour carbon-intensive sectors when the institution is looking for ways to address climate change.
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 - Changing the surface chemistry of electrodes leads to the preferential growth of a novel electroactive bacterium that could support improved energy-neutral wastewater treatment. To grow, elect
Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 - Chemists at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt have discovered how electrodes can be improved in the future using an innovative process. The method could enable materials
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 - A new system developed by chemical engineers at MIT could provide a way of continuously removing carbon dioxide from a stream of waste gases, or even from the air. The key component is an electroche
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 - A new study coordinated by CU Boulder makes clear the extraordinary speed and scale of increases in energy use, economic productivity and global population that have pushed the Earth towards a new g
Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 - Climate change caused by emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is a most important issue for our society. Acceleration of global warming results in catastrophic heatwaves, wildfires, sto
