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Waste sulfur could see new life due to a chemical process discovered recently by University of Arizona scientists. The lightweight plastic they created can be used to enhance lithium sulfur batteries and improve the range of electric cars or...
On Monday in Hong Kong, children, the elderly, and people with respiratory illnesses and heart conditions were advised to stay inside because air pollution index readings were at their highest this year. In Beijing on Monday, the pollution index reached...
Many new automobile technologies are proven on the race track, and Aston Martin's hydrogen hybrid race car is going to do just that when it competes next month on the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. If the track is the best...
By 2030, Australia could be 100% renewable, but without renewable energy storage when the sun goes down, all that development could be a partially wasted effort. Renewable energy depends a lot on the weather. If the sun doesn't shine, solar...
After reading an article on Edmunds.com on the future of automobiles, the internal combustion engine vs the electric vehicle, I have to wonder who's pocket the story really came out of. The story was published today and has an honest-to-goodness...
New research published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that cutting down short-lived climate pollutants, such as methane and soot, could greatly reduce the rate of sea level rise. The study led by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a scientist at the Scripps...
New research, published in the latest issue of Nature Geoscinece, reveals that the Antarctic ice has been melting faster over the past 50 years, compared with records from the previous 600. Researchers from the Australian National University and the British Antarctic Survey...
To reduce their carbon footprint, a French vineyard has announced plans to capture the CO2 produced during the fermentation of grapes and convert it into sodium bicarbonate (an important ingredient in toothpaste). After collection, pharmaceutical companies will buy the sodium...
A new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) demonstrates that concerns about global warming over land are legitimate. Gilbert Compo, a scientist at NOAA’s University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences used a physically-based...
By 2020, New Jersey has a goal of having 22.5% of renewable energy generation and could be funding storage solutions in the near future. Big goals are fine, and New Jersey is actually just 3rd in the nation, behind California...