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Could green hydrogen replace fossil fuels for home electricity?

Could green hydrogen replace fossil fuels for home electricity?

George Scott January 01, 2022

Electrolyzing the equivalent amount of water from one toilet flush could power a typical house for a week.

Climate change: Huge toll of extreme weather disasters in 2021

Climate change: Huge toll of extreme weather disasters in 2021

Liang Lan December 27, 2021

Weather events, linked to a changing climate, brought misery to millions around the world in 2021 according to a new....

Trees contribute to cleaner air in cities

Trees contribute to cleaner air in cities

Liang Lan December 22, 2021

Air pollution levels vary greatly between different places in Gothenburg. This is the finding of a new study led by....

Vehicle emission declines decreased deaths, study finds

Vehicle emission declines decreased deaths, study finds

Liang Lan December 19, 2021

Researchers say that thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars have been saved in the United States by....

The Biodiversity Crisis Needs Its Net Zero Moment

The Biodiversity Crisis Needs Its Net Zero Moment

George Scott December 18, 2021

Climate change isn’t the only major crisis facing the world. We’re in the middle of a mass extinction, and we’re....

Trees Are Biggest Methane “Vents” in Wetland Areas – Significant Emissions Even When They’re Dry

Trees Are Biggest Methane “Vents” in Wetland Areas – Significant Emissions Even When They’re Dry

George Scott December 18, 2021

In a study published in the Royal Society journal, Philosophical Transactions A, the researchers have found evidence that far more....

Steam disinfection of baby bottle nipples exposes babies and the environment to micro- and nanoplastic particles

Steam disinfection of baby bottle nipples exposes babies and the environment to micro- and nanoplastic particles

Liang Lan November 30, 2021

Some plastics go into the sewer systems. They get into the water and landfills. They have such a long lifetime....

Time to end the mass killing

Time to end the mass killing

Julian Cribb November 28, 2021

Many times larger than climate change and more deadly than Covid or war, humanity’s chemical emissions are the crisis nobody....