New forms of steel for stronger, lighter cars
Like many useful innovations, it seems, the creation of high-quality steel by Indian metallurgists more than two thousand years ago may have been a happy…
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The Rights of Nature Prevail Again in Ecuador
Jose Martín Ovando suddenly halts in his tracks and crouches down along the steep forest path shrouded in mist, pulling out a magnifying glass from…
A huge park outside of Mexico City serves as a climate-adaptation model
Editor’s note: Paul Biasco first wrote about the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park for Ensia in early 2020. Here, the author revisits the park as it’s…
What Does ‘Recyclable’ Really Mean?
Most of the products in the typical kitchen use plastics that are virtually impossible to recycle. The film that acts as a lid on Dole…
Eureka
The Eureka Mine, the last active major hard rock gold mine in the Sierra Nevada Mother Lode belt, holds a significant place in history. Originally…
CO2 Misleading Narratives
Confronting climate change is imperative; doing it rationally and honestly is a duty. However, the discrepancies and half-truths that permeate the global discourse on energy…
Pakistan’s Approach to BRI and the CPEC: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects
The One-Belt, One-Road Initiative (BRI), launched by Beijing in 2013, seeks to connect Asia to Africa and Europe, to improve regional integration, increasing trade and…
Bicycle Transport A Prescription for a Healthier Environment and Reducing Climate Change
Most people need to earn money to pay for living expenses, and many of them would like to help heal the planet while doing so….
Sugarcane by the Sea for Ketone Biofuel Production
A very large area in Brazil is covered with sugarcane that is used to make biofuel. The sugary juice of the cane gets fermented, something…
Renewable Energy Projects and their Impact on Communities
Cristiano Spillati is a renewable energy entrepreneur. As the Managing Director of Limes Renewable Energy, he explains the significance of collaboration and dialogue in renewable…
Can a ‘Net-Zero’ World Lead to True Sustainability?
Throughout history, human societies have relied on technological progress to solve their challenges. In technology’s early days, this worked well. It is hard to dispute,…
Our research reveals the scale of the EU’s dependency on imports for critical minerals needed for the green transition – here’s how that can change
The climate transition is a materials transition. Decades of international diplomacy around oil, gas and pipelines are now giving way to conversations around the supply…
In the Pan Amazon, environmental liabilities of old mining have become economic liabilities
Although new mines use state-of-the-art technology, the industry also has a legacy of ageing containment dams at older mines, particularly shuttered mines that no longer…