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Weighing the environmental costs of carbon capture materials
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Weighing the environmental costs of carbon capture materials

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new life-cycle assessment comparing the production impacts of three materials used in carbon dioxide capture technology has highlighted...

Microsoft signs a major new carbon removal deal to try and help minimize environmental effects even further
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Microsoft signs a major new carbon removal deal to try and help minimize environmental effects even further

Microsoft will purchase 3.685 million tons of carbon removal credits over 12 years Carbon will be captured from pulp and paper milling stations...

Transforming cameras into real-time environmental monitors
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Transforming cameras into real-time environmental monitors

Implementation of phasor-based tunable hyperspectral NIR imaging. Credit: Advanced Science (2025). DOI: 10.1002/advs.202415238 Detecting microplastics and identifying plant stress at an early stage—this...

Trump administration slashes dozens of US environmental protections | Donald Trump News
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Trump administration slashes dozens of US environmental protections | Donald Trump News

Administrator Lee Zeldin says the Environmental Protection Agency will eliminate 31 protections against air and water pollution. The head of the Environmental Protection...

Addressing battery production’s environmental impact
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Addressing battery production’s environmental impact

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Batteries power the clean energy transition, but their production comes at a cost—environmental and human health impacts from critical...

Chip-free wireless sensors could reduce environmental impact of electronic tags
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Chip-free wireless sensors could reduce environmental impact of electronic tags

Credit: University of Glasgow A more sustainable new form of electronic tag could help reduce the vast environmental impact caused by single-use RFID...

Inspired by water bugs, researchers create tiny swimming robots for medical, environmental uses
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Inspired by water bugs, researchers create tiny swimming robots for medical, environmental uses

Bioinspired design of a self-propelled shape-morphing swimming robot. Credit: Advanced Functional Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202413129 Inspired by the movement of insects gliding on...

Chemical looping turns environmental waste into fuel
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Chemical looping turns environmental waste into fuel

Credit: Energy & Fuels (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c02643 Turning environmental waste into useful chemical resources could solve many of the inevitable challenges of our...

Businesses are slowly waking up to the environmental effects of Gen AI
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Businesses are slowly waking up to the environmental effects of Gen AI

Capgemini report find nearly half of execs say rising greenhouse gasses are due to AI Only 12% measure their company’s AI carbon footprint...