Can railways be fully solar-powered?
Trains are the most efficient mode of transportation we have. Despite carrying 9% of global passengers and 7% of global cargo, they make up just 3% of…
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What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy?
Could Covid-19 increase acceptance of nuclear technologies?
Children’s views should be taken into account when designing urban space
Thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides shipped to poorer countries from British and European factories
Five countries object to EU’s latest hydrogen ‘manifesto’
Permit for Controversial $9 Billion Plastics Plant in “Chemical Alley” to Be Put on Hold
How do climate change, migration and a deadly disease in sheep alter our understanding of pandemics?
Of hemp’s many uses, one of the most promising could be in construction
Methanol fuel cell company Blue World acquiring Danish Power Systems
Blue World Technologies, developer and manufacturer of methanol fuel cells, is acquiring Danish Power Systems, a 25-year-old High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (HTPEM) membrane electrode assembly (MEA)…
Does carbon capture need Elon Musk?
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) often divides opinion as a climate change solution, but the technology received high-profile backing in January in the form of…
How Cities Can Combat the Dangerous Combination of Extreme Heat and COVID
Heat is deadlier than other climate-related disasters, but the solutions are simpler. Labor Day Weekend usually signals the end of summer, but this year, it seems…
EU countries agree to ‘rapidly upscale’ hydrogen market
Member states have set aside their divergences on renewable vs ‘low-carbon’ hydrogen to focus on efforts to “rapidly upscale the market for hydrogen at EU…
What Joe Biden’s US election victory means for climate change
Joe Biden’s US election victory has been hailed as a significant turning point in US policy on everything from racial injustice to the Covid-19 pandemic. But there are few…
Warmer climate and Arctic sea ice in a veritable suicide pact
Their ‘death spiral’ is a vicious melting-warming feedback, leading to more melting of snow and ice and still more warming, an ongoing cycle. Think of…
Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges
The forest biomass industry is sprawling and spreading globally — rapidly growing in size, scale, revenue, and political influence — even as forest ecologists and…