Have you ever wondered about the carbon impact of growing your dinner? Scientists have just come up with a new way to calculate part of it.
Environment
Aug 4, 2022
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A group of researchers has succeeded in converting methane into methanol using light and dispersed transition metals such as copper in a process known as photo-oxidation. According to an article reporting the study published ...
Materials Science
Aug 2, 2022
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When it comes to climate change, are cows as bad as cars? Probably not, says Dr. Frank Mitloehner, University of California, Davis researcher and air quality specialist. He asserts that meat and dairy animals are not major ...
Environment
Jul 22, 2022
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Look at just about any popular media article on personal changes you can make to save the planet and near the top of the list you'll likely see cutting out meat—or at least decreasing meat consumption dramatically.
Agriculture
Jul 19, 2022
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What we eat and how we produce food matters. Food systems are responsible for more than a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment
Jul 18, 2022
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With many people stuck at home during the early stages of the pandemic, backdrops of orange ash-filled skies, flash flood events, and record setting heat waves made climate denial more difficult. Last year, the sixth IPCC ...
Environment
Jul 13, 2022
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Every day, millions of Americans rely on natural gas to power appliances such as kitchen stoves, furnaces, and water heaters, but until now very little data existed on the chemical makeup of the gas once it reaches consumers.
Environment
Jun 28, 2022
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Oil and gas prices are currently on the rise, raising questions about the security of Switzerland's energy supply. In a policy brief, researchers from the Energy Science Center at ETH Zurich have now shown what Switzerland ...
Environment
Jun 20, 2022
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A new Imperial analysis has found that biogas and biomethane, while more climate friendly, leak more than twice as much methane as previously thought.
Environment
Jun 17, 2022
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Scientists have for the first time used satellite data to detect a major offshore leak of the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to peer-reviewed research.
Environment
Jun 12, 2022
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