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Environment Jul 26, 2024

Timber venues, river swimming and re-use: How the Paris Olympics is going green—and what it's missing

As Paris prepares to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the sustainability of the event is coming under scrutiny.

Environment Jul 24, 2024

How experts are calculating the Paris Olympics' carbon footprint: 83 bottles of wine per person

The 2024 Paris Olympics aim to be the greenest edition on record, and the first compatible with the Paris climate agreement. Talk of "green games" goes back to April 2021. At the time, the Organizing Committee for the Olympic ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 22, 2024

Decomposing 'refrigerants,' a potent greenhouse gas, using industrial waste

A research team has developed a technology to decompose refrigerants, a greenhouse gas 1,300 times more potent than carbon dioxide, using challenging-to-handle industrial waste.

Environment Jul 18, 2024

Energy efficiency may also keep rodents at bay

Sealing leaky windows, filling gaps in doors, and installing efficient insulation will not only decrease wasteful energy usage, it also may reduce rodent infestations, a new study recently published in Environmental Research ...

Space Exploration Jul 18, 2024

The next full moon is the buck or thunder moon

The next full moon will be Sunday morning, July 21, 2024, appearing opposite the sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 6:17 AM EDT. For the International Date Line West and the American Samoa and Midway time zones this will be ...

Archaeology Jul 11, 2024

Unveiling 1,200 years of human occupation in Canada's Arctic

A recent study provides new insights into ancient cultures in Canada's Arctic, focusing on Paleo-Inuit and Thule-Inuit peoples over thousands of years. Jules Blais, professor of biology at the University of Ottawa, and a ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 10, 2024

Nanocarbon catalyst design unlocks new avenue for sustainable fuel additive production

Vehicle exhaust from fossil fuel combustion constitutes a main source of air pollutants like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. To mitigate air pollution, researchers are looking into additives to fuels like dimethoxymethane ...

Environment Jul 8, 2024

Detroit's air quality 'very unhealthy' following Fourth of July fireworks

Detroit's air quality ranked among the worst in the U.S. on Friday morning following the Fourth of July holiday fireworks use, posing "very unhealthy" conditions for children, seniors and people with certain health conditions ...

Environment Jul 2, 2024

Study reveals fireworks' impact on air quality

As Independence Day approaches, Utahns are preparing to celebrate the nation's birth with dazzling displays of light and color. However, a new BYU study published in Applied Geochemistry warns that these festivities come ...

Environment Jun 26, 2024

How forest fires also have an impact on lakes

The forest fires in Canada during the summer of 2023 were particularly devastating. With the destructive impact on human infrastructure, plumes of smoke covering thousands of square kilometers and millions of tons of CO2 ...

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