Environment

Dishwashing with Superheated Steam is Efficient and Environmentally Friendly

Dishwashing with Superheated Steam is Efficient and Environmentally Friendly

Superheated steam dishwashers may be more efficient and environmentally friendly than traditional dishwashers. Researchers created a simulation of such a dishwasher and discovered that it…
Clean Hydrogen is Valuable

Clean Hydrogen is Valuable

Decarbonizing fossil energy uses that cannot be directly electrified with renewable energy is one of the world’s most pressing climate challenges. Major industries that rely…
Plan for Natural Climate Change Remedies based on Science

Plan for Natural Climate Change Remedies based on Science

Ecosystem scientists and policy experts in the United States are calling for a scientific approach to nature-based climate solutions. The report is the result of…
Scientists Scour the Oceans for Plankton and Pollution

Scientists Scour the Oceans for Plankton and Pollution

After a near two-year “Microbiome” mission around the world, scientists said they had gathered thousands of samples of marine micro-organisms in a bid to better…
Impact of Plastic Pollution

Impact of Plastic Pollution

Plastic waste buildup in the environment is what leads to plastic pollution. It can be divided between primary plastics, which include bottle caps and cigarette…
Ocean Cooling has Resulted in Larger Fish Over Millennia

Ocean Cooling has Resulted in Larger Fish Over Millennia

Biologists decided to test this hypothesis using tetraodontiform fishes as a model group to see if paleoclimatic temperature shifts are correlated with body size changes.…
Clean Tech Decoupling from China has far more Risks than Benefits, According to a Study

Clean Tech Decoupling from China has far more Risks than Benefits, According to a Study

According to a recent University of California San Diego study published in Science, the current U.S. trajectory to decouple from China on renewable energy technology…
Scientists May Have Dramatically Underestimated the Number of Ancient Martian Lakes

Scientists May Have Dramatically Underestimated the Number of Ancient Martian Lakes

Lakes are large bodies of water that receive water from rivers, groundwater, rivers, precipitation, and snowmelt. Lakes also hold vital geologic evidence of previous climatic…
Why are Some Countries Pioneering the Transition to Green Energy?

Why are Some Countries Pioneering the Transition to Green Energy?

A new study identifies the political factors that allow some countries to lead in adopting cleaner sources of energy while others lag behind. By analyzing…
Even Though it Might Already be Too Late to Meet the UN’s Genetic Diversity Target, New Research may Help to Direct Conservation Efforts

Even Though it Might Already be Too Late to Meet the UN’s Genetic Diversity Target, New Research may Help to Direct Conservation Efforts

According to recent research conducted by Moises Exposito-Alonso of Carnegie and published in Science, climate change and habitat destruction may have already contributed to the…
Fewer Trout Were Not Affected by Warmer Stream Temperatures in a Burned-Over Watershed in Oregon

Fewer Trout Were Not Affected by Warmer Stream Temperatures in a Burned-Over Watershed in Oregon

One year after a fire destroyed nearly the entire watershed in southern Oregon, including riparian zone trees that had helped maintain ideal stream temperatures for…
Why is the Salton Sea becoming Contaminated with Toxic Dust?

Why is the Salton Sea becoming Contaminated with Toxic Dust?

In the last 25 years, the Salton Sea, California’s most polluted inland lake, has lost one-third of its water. According to new research, the reason…
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