Global Warming

More and more ETH Zurich researchers are taking the plunge into entrepreneurship. By launching spin-​offs, they hope to turn their lab findings into solutions that can help stem the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide. There is no shortage of evidence for what the Fifth Assessment Report of the Inter more

More than a dozen chemical blends could serve as alternative refrigerants that won’t heat the atmosphere as much as today’s refrigerants do, or catch fire, according to a new computational study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The NIST study identified the 22 “best” non more

Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have designed a CO2 reduction method based only on commonly occurring elements. Achieving a 57% overall quantum yield of CO2 reduction products, it is the highest performing system of its kind reported to date, raising prospects for cost-effective carbon more

Climate Change The Chicxulub impact 65 million years ago, which caused the mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, also initiated a long period of strong global warming. Using data from phosphatic microfossils, including fish teeth, scales, and bone, MacLeod et al. estimated global more

Sustainability, Vol. 10, Pages 2228: Millets for Food Security in the Context of Climate Change: A Review Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su10072228 Authors: Rachit Saxena Sai Kranthi Vanga Jin Wang Valérie Orsat Vijaya Raghavan A growing population means an ever-increasing demand more

Sustainability, Vol. 10, Pages 2193: Life Cycle Environmental Impact of Biomass Co-Firing with Coal at a Power Plant in the Greater Houston Area Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su10072193 Authors: Raghava Rao Kommalapati Iqbal Hossan Venkata Sai Vamsi Botlaguduru Hongbo Du Ziaul Huque more