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Australia’s recycling opportunity emerges as batteries boom

Batteries are becoming crucial enablers of Australia’s transition to renewable energy.
Simulated geoengineering evaluation: cooler planet, but with side effects

A new modeling study led by two NOAA researchers highlights the vast challenges and potentially damaging consequences of solar geoengineering actions large enough to ward off extreme warming by the end of the 21st century.
Vegetarians have healthier levels of disease markers than meat-eaters

Vegetarians appear to have a healthier biomarker profile than meat-eaters, and this applies to adults of any age and weight, and is also unaffected by smoking and alcohol consumption, according to a new study in over 166,000 UK adults.
Climate change threatens winged harbinger of spring

A sure sign of spring in northern Europe is the arrival of the Arctic tern bird, but on the UN’s World Migratory Bird Day experts fear the warming of the oceans in its nesting grounds in the northern Atlantic is threatening its very existence.
Just Launched: Platform for Farmers to Earn Revenue through Positive Climate Action

Yara, a crop nutrition solutions provider, announced the commercial launch of Agoro Carbon Alliance, a global business created for farmers to earn additional revenue through positive climate action.

Lead found in rural drinking water supplies in West Africa

Scientists are warning that drinking water supplies in parts of rural West Africa are being contaminated by lead-containing materials… 4.5.2021
Space scrap the next frontier of metals recycling

Scrap will act as the raw material feedstock for advanced manufacturing systems, such as 3D printing, according to Christophe Figus who is responsible for Airbus’ in-space manufacturing and assembly… 29.4.2021
Methane release rapidly increases in the wake of the melting ice sheets

Ice ages are not that easy to define. It may sound intuitive that an ice age represents a frozen planet, but the truth is often more nuanced than that. 29.4.2021
Combining Solar Panels and Lamb Grazing Increases Land Productivity, Study Finds

Solar panels also benefit the welfare of the lambs by providing shade… 29.4.2021
Research: Lactic acid bacteria can extend the shelf life of foods

Researchers at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, have generated a lactic acid bacterium that efficiently secretes a food-grade preservative when grown on dairy waste… 28.4.2021
Carbon emissions are more than countries are reporting -study

Scientists said on Monday they have detected a large gap, equal to about what the United States emits annually, between the amount of climate-warming emissions that countries report and the amount that independent models say reaches the atmosphere. 26.4.2021
Link between young adults’ climate anxiety and mental health strongest in Finland

A study carried out among university students in 25 countries demonstrates that negative climate change-related emotions have an impact on young adults’ insomnia and mental health… 26.4.2021
Charities risk missing out on a share of trillions of pounds of inherited wealth from millennials, report warns

Charities risk missing out on a share of trillions of pounds of inherited wealth from a “lost generation” of affluent millennial givers unless the sector finds targeted ways to connect with them, new research warns… 23.4.2021
Climate-friendly microbes chomp dead plants without releasing heat-trapping methane

The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the U.S. and China has identified an entirely new group of microbes quietly living in hot springs, geothermal systems and hydrothermal sediments around the world…23.4.2021
EU research project aims to reduce waste on vacation

‘Tourists cause around 14 percent of the global volume of municipal waste,’ emphasizes Iris Gruber from the Institute of Waste Management at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna… 22.4.2021

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