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Cleaner air has boosted US corn and soybean yields
Jul 12, 2021 (SPX)
The analysis, published this week in Environmental Research Letters, reveals that four key air pollutants are particularly damaging to crops, and accounted for ...
Switching it up to make better grass for bioenergy crops
Jul 07, 2021 (SPX)
Switchgrass, a native prairie species, is championed as a promising bioenergy crop due to its ability to grow across many climates. It is also known to associat...
Engineered yeast may expand possible biofuel sources
Jun 25, 2021 (UPI)
Their approach involves a technique designed to improve yeast cells' tolerance to a wide range of alcohols, they said. In large quantities, alcohols are toxic t...
Recycling robot could help solve soft plastic waste crisis
Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)
Soft plastics lack adequate recycling methods as they easily entangle in waste separation machinery, leading to mechanical failure and contamination of other re...
Transforming CO2 and sugars into biofuel
Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)
With a $2.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), UD Professor Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis i...
Significantly lower climate impact of contrails when using sustainable fuels
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
Using a 50-50 blend of kerosene and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), they achieved a halving of the number of ice crystals in contrails under actual flight cond...
Sweet promise for the environment
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
As the world's population grows, the demand for food, raw materials, and energy is also on the rise. This increases the burden on the environment and the climat...
World-first discovery could fuel the new green ammonia economy
Jun 11, 2021 (SPX)
Ammonia (NH3) is a globally important commodity for fertiliser production to help sustain food production. It is currently produced via a metal catalysed reacti...
Saving the climate with solar fuel
Jun 10, 2021 (SPX)
With electric mobility, hydrogen mobility and synthetic fuels, Empa's future mobility demonstrator, "move", is investigating three paths for CO2 reduction in ro...
Seaweed experts launch global group to restore kelp forests with new technique
Jun 09, 2021 (SPX)
Restoring kelp is becoming increasingly urgent as water warming, pollution and other factors destroy kelp forests around the world. Kelp forests play an importa...
First test of tropical seaweed farming for biofuels production begins off Puerto Rico
Jun 06, 2021 (SPX)
The research array furthers the design and development of a system for offshore cultivation of tropical seaweeds to support large-scale production of biomass fo...
Transforming CO2 into light-emitting carbon
Jun 04, 2021 (SPX)
We talked to lead author Dr. Jaspreet Walia, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, and ...
Solar energy-driven sustainable process for synthesis of ethylene glycol from methanol
Jun 04, 2021 (SPX)
It is of great interests that a "dream catalytic reaction" of direct coupling of methanol to ethylene glycol (2CH3OH - HOCH2CH2OH + H2, denoted as MTEG) could b...
Environmental concerns propel research into marine biofuels
Jun 04, 2021 (SPX)
"Biofuels turned out to be very good options because they have zero or very, very low sulfur compared to fossil fuels," said Eric Tan, a senior research enginee...
Fashion's green future of seaweed coats and mushroom shoes
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
Change is urgently needed, since the industry consumes 93 billion cubic metres of water per year, dumps 500,000 tonnes of plastic microfibres into the ocean, an...
New technology turns plastic trash into jet fuel
May 17, 2021 (UPI)
The technique, detailed Monday in the journal Chem Catalyst, can be tweaked to turn plastic waste into a variety of in-demand hydrocarbon products. Importantly,...
Can lab-grown algae help tackle hunger?
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
These are just some of the food innovations that researchers say will be crucial to combat malnutrition in the face of climate change and other system shocks. W...
US waives clean fuel rules to alleviate shortage after pipeline shutdown
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
The waiver is meant "to address the fuel supply emergency caused by a cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline's computer networks that led to the pipeline's shutdown,"...
Will your future clothes be made of algae?
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
For the first time, an international team of researchers from the University of Rochester and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands used 3D printers...
Dominating fungus could be solution to producing more biofuels and chemicals
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers - led by the University of York - have discovered an enzyme in a fungus which can act as a catalyst to bring about a biochemical reaction that break...
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