That banana peel, turned into graphene, can help facilitate a massive reduction of the environmental impact of concrete and other building materials. While you're at it, toss in those plastic empties.
Nanomaterials
Jan 27, 2020
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A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from within Enceladus, an ocean-harboring moon of Saturn, may be controlled by chemical reactions at its seafloor. ...
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2020
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Germany's greenhouse gas emissions fell sharply last year, putting the country's 2020 climate goal within reach again.
Environment
Jan 7, 2020
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German skincare group Beiersdorf, behind household-name brands like Nivea and Elastoplast, said Tuesday that all its operations would be powered by renewable electricity by the end of 2019.
Environment
Dec 17, 2019
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A new chemical process described in the journal Nature Communications does in the lab what trees do in nature—it converts carbon dioxide into usable chemicals or fuels.
Materials Science
Dec 16, 2019
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In a recently published paper in Science Advances, Feng Ding of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials and colleagues have achieved the creation of a specific type of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with a selectivity of ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 16, 2019
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Natural gas and crude oil locked away inside layers of shale, a type of sedimentary rock, is one of the nation's largest and fastest growing energy sources. According to Drew Pomerantz, a scientist at Schlumberger, an oilfield ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 5, 2019
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Hydropower is broadly considered to be much more environmentally friendly than electricity generated from fossil fuels, and in many cases this is true. However, a new study reveals that the climate impact of hydropower facilities ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2019
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In independent studies, two Princeton University research teams recently identified surprisingly large sources of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, being leaked into the atmosphere. Pound for pound, methane causes a far ...
Environment
Sep 20, 2019
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About 600 petagrams, or 600 billion tons of carbon (the weight of about 100 billion really big elephants), was emitted as carbon dioxide from 1750-2015 through fossil fuel burning, cement production and land-use change. ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 3, 2019
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