Integrated mineral carbonation: Decarbonising Western Australia

A research team from Curtin University is pioneering decarbonisation in Western Australia through integrated mineral carbonation. Bill Johnston, MLA, Mines and Petroleum Minister, announced on...

Advancing waste heat recovery in Portugal for a greener future

The European project, EMB3Rs, is discovering new ways to achieve industrial waste heat recovery in Portugal to raise energy efficiency, cut carbon emissions and...

New approach revealed to reduce EV battery testing time by 75%

Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) have emphasised that testing the longevity of new electric vehicle battery designs could be four times faster...

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Scientists discover how the oceans on Mars dried up and the planet lost its atmospheric water

Scientists from the University of Arizona, USA, have discovered how the oceans on Mars dried up and the water in its atmosphere was destroyed. Since 2014, Shane Stone, a graduate student in the UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has worked...

Smart pipe to deliver low-carbon solutions to buried infrastructure industries

Smart pipe developed by a UK-based collaboration could offer a low-carbon solution to drainage and storm water pipe industries.

The role of the rumen microbiome in the digestion of dairy cows

Professors Andres M Gomez, Marshall D Stern, and Isaac Salfer outline the relationship between the rumen microbiome and nutrient digestion in dairy cows.

Predicting habitat loss in 2100

A study by the University of Cambridge, UK, used hundreds of years of data to determine the scale of habitat loss in 2100. In a paper, published in the journal Nature Communications, the team outlines its analysis of changes in...

The safety of our freshwater supplies

Professor Thomas D Shahady from the University of Lynchburg describes the growing concerns over the safety of our freshwater supplies. A question often asked around the world is: is my water is safe? Whether it is the water flowing into...

Monitoring the environmental effects of Bonfire Night

Researchers from the University of Leeds, UK, have monitored air quality on Bonfire Night (5 November) to determine whether soot created by fires and fireworks, known as black carbon, could help to create ice in clouds. As published today in...

New self-watering soil pulls water from the air to distribute to plants

Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, have created a self-watering soil that can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, potentially expanding the map of farmable land around the globe. As published in ACS...

Fostering innovation in the field of sustainable development

Professor Frédéric Pichelin, the Head of Institute for Materials and Wood Technology at Bern University of Applied Sciences, outlines how the recently-launched Timber Startup Incubator fosters innovation in the field of sustainable development. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that many...

Addressing desertification in the Sahel

CNRS’s Deborah Goffner spoke to The Innovation Platform’s International Editor, Clifford Holt, about how desertification in the Sahel is being addressed. The impacts of climate change vary from region to region. In certain parts of Africa, desertification is a particular...

2°C rise in global temperatures could release billions of tonnes of carbon

A new study led by the University of Exeter, UK, suggests that a 2°C rise in global temperatures would release billions of tonnes of carbon from soil. Soil contains two to three times more carbon than the atmosphere. As higher...

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