Accelerated climate action needed to sharply reduce current risks to life and life-support systems
Hottest day on record. Hottest month on record. Extreme marine heat waves. Record-low Antarctic sea-ice.
Hottest day on record. Hottest month on record. Extreme marine heat waves. Record-low Antarctic sea-ice.
Environment
Dec 7, 2023
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The outcome of the most important climate negotiations in years could rest on the ambiguity surrounding one linchpin term, according to experts: "unabated fossil fuels".
Environment
Dec 7, 2023
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Nearly 120 nations pledged to triple the world's renewable energy within seven years at UN climate talks Saturday as the United States pushed to crank up nuclear capacity and slash methane emissions.
Environment
Dec 3, 2023
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Fifty oil and gas companies representing 40 percent of global production pledged to decarbonize their operations by 2050 at the UN's COP28 climate talks in Dubai on Saturday.
Environment
Dec 3, 2023
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Plans to expand oil, gas and coal production by major fossil fuel countries would push the world far beyond agreed global warming limits and are "throwing humanity's future into question", the UN warned Wednesday.
Environment
Nov 8, 2023
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The Kolubara coal mine in Serbia never closes—24 hours a day, 365 days per year, excavators work around the clock gnawing away at the soil to extract the fossil fuel.
Environment
Nov 2, 2023
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There is an urgent need to address climate change, making the development of sustainable energy alternatives more important than ever. While proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have shown great promise for energy ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 11, 2023
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In a breakthrough for environmentally friendly chemical production, researchers at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) have developed an economical way to make succinic acid, an important ...
Biochemistry
Oct 3, 2023
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Hydrogen is considered a clean and efficient energy carrier that will have broad applications in the future—as a fuel for cars, buses, for houses heating, or as an energy storage. However, it is currently mainly produced ...
Biotechnology
Sep 5, 2023
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The world needs greener ways to make chemicals. In a new study, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers demonstrate one potential path toward this goal by adapting hydrogen fuel cell technologies. These technologies ...
Biochemistry
Aug 21, 2023
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