Exploring the impacts of nutrient legacies on cultural eutrophication

Professor Phillippe Van Cappellen and Stephanie Slowinski from the Ecohydrology Research Group, University of Waterloo, discuss how nutrient legacies affect cultural eutrophication, a process that threatens aquatic ecosystems and water quality worldwide. The nutrient elements nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P)...

Cornish Lithium: enhancing sustainable exploration for lithium

Cornish Lithium’s Alistair Salisbury discusses the utilisation of hyperspectral and drone data to enhance sustainable exploration for lithium in Cornwall. The World Bank predicts a dramatic rise in the demand for technology and battery metals, including lithium. It is forecasting...

The benefits of dynamic charging of electric vehicles

Petri Korhonen, Chief Engineer, and Mikko Veikkolainen, CTO of Kempower discuss the benefits of dynamic charging of electric vehicles. Kempower is a leading e-mobility charging technology provider in the Nordics, specialising in dynamic and scalable DC charging for electric vehicles...

Sustainability is at the forefront of lithium extraction thanks to new technologies

Determining the most optimal method of lithium extraction is hotly contested; in this report, industry experts Lithium Power International address the sustainability of currently used extraction techniques. Lithium extraction has traditionally been conducted in two main ways: crystallised in large...

New facility for battery venting analysis at KIT

Dr Carlos Ziebert, leader of the group Batteries – Calorimetry and Safety and head of IAM-AWP’s Calorimeter Center, KIT, describes benefits of its new facility for battery venting analysis. Recently a new accelerating rate calorimeter (ARC), the EV+ from Thermal...

Making Healthcare Sustainable – A Holistic Approach

Gemserv Health discusses the necessity of making healthcare sustainable and how the industry can play a key role in tackling climate change. In an early autumn doomed by news of rising gas prices, there is certainly a lesson to be...

Answering the big questions about big subduction zone earthquakes

Professor Kevin P Furlong from the Geodynamics Research Group at Geosciences Penn State discusses subduction zone earthquakes. Earthquakes in subduction zones, where two tectonic plates meet and one sinks (or subducts) beneath the other, play host to the largest earthquakes...

Only cyber-security investment can tackle the growing threat of cybercrime

Ian Thornton-Trump, the Chief Information Security Officer at Cyjax Ltd, discusses the necessity of widespread cyber-security investment. From 2015 onwards, the scourge of ransomware attacks on small, medium, and large enterprises grew at a phenomenal rate and moved from cottage industry to sophisticated operations...

Cell-based regenerative therapies for maxillofacial bone defects

A collaboration of engineers, biomedical scientists, and clinicians in the Netherlands has recently reached a breakthrough in cell-based bone regenerative therapies. Although bone has a great regenerative capacity, up to 10% of defects cannot heal without intervention. As a result,...

Studying neutron star matter in the laboratory

Goethe University’s Professor Joachim Stroth explores neutron star matter and what happens when two of the densest macroscopic objects we know of merge. What happens when two of the densest macroscopic objects we know of merge? Incredible amounts of kinetic...


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