By Rick Kazmer, The Cool Down “Battery technology has come a long way.” The old adage, “big things come in small packages,” unfortunately holds true for engine pollution. Research reported on by Grist found that lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and weed eaters can produce more air pollution than much larger, gas-guzzling vehicles — even more than …
This New Satellite can Measure CO2 Emissions at Power Plants from Space
By Adele Peters, Fast Company GHGSat already measures methane pollution from space. Now it’s tackling CO2. [Source Photo: GHGSat] A new satellite that launched today is the first to be able to accurately measure how much CO2 is being emitted from a specific power plant or factory. Companies will be …
AI Could Give Coral a Fighting Chance in Rapidly Warming Oceans
By Todd Woody, Bloomberg Robots, 3D printers and other machinery fill a building on a pier in San Francisco. It seems an unlikely place to save coral reefs from climate change. But over the past four years, an Australian coral scientist has been collaborating with technologists at the industrial design …
Tapping Sewage for Clean Energy is the Ultimate Circular-Economy Play
By John Lorinc, Corporate Knights In the world’s largest wastewater energy-transfer project, a Toronto hospital will soon be heated (and cooled) with sewage. A 130-foot borehole across from Toronto Western Hospital. The Noventa Energy project will help replace 90% of the natural gas the hospital uses to run its boilers …
Molecular Recycling Could Be Crucial to Realizing a Circular Economy
By Tom Idle, Sustainable Brands We caught up with Eastman’s Plastics Division President, Scott Ballard, who explained the potential of molecular recycling as the company prepares to show the world what’s possible. Eastman is set to open one of the world’s largest plastic-to-plastic, molecular-recycling facilities in the world at its Kingsport, Tennessee headquarters. It will …
They Went Hunting for Fossil Fuels. What they Found Could Help Save the World
By Laura Paddison, CNN When two scientists went looking for fossil fuels beneath the ground of northeastern France, they did not expect to discover something which could supercharge the effort to tackle the climate crisis. Jacques Pironon and Phillipe De Donato, both directors of research at France’s National Centre of Scientific Research, …
New Method Proposed to Improve the Ocean Observational Network in the Tropical Western Pacific
Phys.Org In Figures (a) and (b), the colors depict the uncertainty levels before and after ENSO, short for the El Niño and Southern Oscillation, is the most influential interannual oscillation, and significantly impacts global climate. The Tropical Pacific Observation System (TPOS), including moored buoys, plays an important role in understanding, …
A ‘Whalecam’, Seals v. Sharks and Fish that Play Dead: it’s Planet Earth III
By Tara Conlan, The Gurdian A southern right whale filmed in the shallow waters of Península Valdés, Argentina in a shot from the series. Photograph: BBC Studios As a new series promises breathtaking footage obtained by groundbreaking technology, children are the new target audience. A detachable “whalecam”, remote underwater cameras operated …
From Landfills to Biogas and Healthier Crops: The Anaerobic Digestion Revolution
By Shawn Kreloff, Sustainable Brands The role of waste-management practices in our journey towards a more sustainable future cannot be overstated. Anaerobic digestion’s multitude of benefits demonstrate its potential to turn ‘waste’ into valuable resources. Each week, more than 1 million tons of food waste are incinerated or sent to landfills in …
China Expands Climate Change Surveillance on Himalayan Peak
By Reuters Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Monika Deupala/File Photo BEIJING, Oct 6 (Reuters) – China has set up weather stations on Cho Oyu, the sixth …