The world’s first ‘infinite’ plastic
There is one man-made material that you can find in the earth, the air and in the deepest ocean trenches. It is so durable that...
Twenty plastic-busting inventions to clean our rivers and seas
There’s an incomprehensible amount of plastic in the ocean – estimates put the known total at 5 trillion individual pieces, or around 150 million tonnes....
New electric vehicle charging research could allow drivers to power their cars as they drive on the highway
Khurram Afridi, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell, is honing technology that would allow drivers to charge their electric vehicle while...
Carbon Capture Technologies Are Improving Nicely
The laboratory, like other Department of Energy labs, does its work through partnerships with industries and universities. From its recent experiences, it estimates that trapping,...
This startup grows kelp then sinks it to pull carbon from the air
Carbon emissions are a huge contributor to climate change, so companies are getting creative about finding ways to suck the heat-trapping element out of the...
Carbon capture and “dimming” the sun: Climate geoengineering poses technical and ethical dilemmas
The climate crisis is arguably the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced, and to limit warming to manageable levels, time is our biggest opponent. While...
Agrivoltaics: Solar farming our way out of a climate crisis
Progress: To meet President Joe Biden’s green energy plan to move the US to carbon-free electricity by 2035, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology will likely consume...
NASA Technologies Spin off to Fight Climate Change
NASA’s work has generated countless spinoffs that are now on the front lines of the fight against climate change. That shouldn’t be a surprise, since...