Tag: environment
IC Manufacturing Targets Less Water, Less Waste
Fabs, OSATs, and equipment makers are accelerating their efforts to reduce water usage while cutting reducing and recycling material waste in a trend toward better sustainability. With [more…]
How Flash Heating Plastic Waste Could Produce Green Hydrogen and Graphene
Hydrogen could be a green fuel of the future, but at present it’s mainly made out of fossil fuels in a process that generates a lot of [more…]
Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Gains Momentum With a Big New Closed-Loop System
Shifting to battery-powered vehicles is an essential step in tackling climate change, but it’s also creating worryingly large amounts of e-waste and demand for environmentally damaging mining. [more…]
AI Is Turbo-Charging the Search for Electric Vehicle Battery Metals
As the world works to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, we’ll extract less oil and gas from the Earth and more minerals like lithium, [more…]
US Invests $1.2 Billion in Carbon Capture Plants to Suck Tons of CO2 From the Air
Pulling large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere is likely to be a crucial part of efforts to tackle climate change. A new $1.2 [more…]
Is It Really Hotter Now Than Any Time in 100,000 Years?
As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures into context and asking: When was it [more…]
This Sweaty Robot Can Teach Us How to Survive Extreme Heat
It’s been a hot summer, with heat waves engulfing multiple parts of the world and setting record temperatures in some. We can hope that in time some [more…]
Western US States Are Turning to Cloud Seeding to Fight Historic Droughts
Amid the search for solutions to global warming, various forms of geoengineering have gained traction. The more wild ideas—like spraying dust into space to block out some [more…]
New Survey Asks Americans How They Really Feel About Climate Change
Headlines about climate change have filled newsfeeds over the last few years, ranging from catastrophic (natural disasters, endangered species, dire predictions for the future) to a bit [more…]
This Startup Wants to Inject Captured CO2 Straight Into Volcanic Rock in Kenya
From Iceland to Wyoming and Switzerland to Texas, carbon capture plants are under construction or working away to suck CO2 out of the air and store it [more…]
Life on a Reforested Planet: How the World Will Look if We Plant a Trillion Trees
Many stories about the future are formed by imagining worst-case scenarios, then extracting lessons from them about what we should try to avoid. Much of the best [more…]
Scientists Just Revealed the Most Detailed Geological Model of Earth’s Past 100 Million Years
Earth’s surface is the “living skin” of our planet—it connects the physical, chemical, and biological systems. Over geological time, landscapes change as this surface evolves, regulating the [more…]
This New Material Absorbs Three Times More CO2 Than Current Carbon Capture Tech
According to the IEA, there are currently 18 direct air capture plants in operation around the world. They’re located in Europe, Canada, or the US, and most [more…]
Wind-Powered Cargo Ships Are the Future: Debunking 4 Myths That Stand in the Way of Cutting Emissions
Sailing cargo ships are making a genuine comeback. Japanese bulk carrier MOL is operating a wind-assisted ship. American food giant Cargill is working with Olympic sailor Ben [more…]
This Startup Is Making Ultra-Strong Building Panels Out of Grass
Construction is a major carbon emitter. The manufacture of cement alone accounts for eight percent of the world’s emissions. But humanity certainly isn’t about to stop building [more…]
Shooting Moon Dust Into Space as a ‘Sunscreen’ for Earth Could Help Stop Climate Change
Geoengineering the planet to reverse the worst effects of climate change is a controversial idea that has been largely rejected by the scientific establishment. But what if [more…]
Ice Age animals ready to roam the metaverse
A collaborative team based in California was investigating how AR affects learning in museums, but soon realised there weren’t any accurate Ice Age animals in the metaverse [more…]