WASTE PAPER CONVERTED INTO SMARTPHONE AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY PARTS
A new technique converts waste paper, from single-use packaging and bags, and cardboard boxes, into a crucial component of lithium-ion[…]
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Month: November 2022
MARAUDING MICROBES AND GLACIAL MELT
Tens of thousands of microbes have been found in each milliliter of collected surface meltwaters from eight European and North[…]
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AWESOME AQUIFER THERMAL ENERGY
Aquifer thermal energy storage systems can largely contribute to climate-friendly heating and cooling of buildings. Heated water stored underground can[…]
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CO2 AND LESS NUTRITIOUS FOOD
Directly affecting plants, increased concentrations of CO2 worsen the nutritional quality of food by decreasing protein and mineral concentrations from[…]
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MORE YET ON AMAZING ALGAE
Photo: limestone Global cement production accounts for 7% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in large part through burning of quarried[…]
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DYING OLMSTED PARKS
Photo: Boston’s “Emerald Necklace” Several parks designed by Olmsted (father of landscape architecture) and his sons are now dying from[…]
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SUSTAINABLE AVIATION
The United States is the largest contributor to aviation CO2 emissions in the world–responsible for more than a quarter of[…]
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MOURNING THE LOSS OF EGYPT’S MONUMENTS
As Egypt warms almost twice as fast as the rest of the world, the Nile is drying up. Rising seawater[…]
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CAPTURING HUMAN PRODUCTION OF CO2
In densely populated buildings, CO2 emissions from human respiration is surprisingly high, and growing rooftop spinach in CO2 recycled from[…]
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UNEXPECTED MELTING GLACIERS/SEA LEVEL RISE CONNECTION
Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland’s melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. How much ice[…]
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