Humans have created more than 8 billion metric tons of plastic since synthetic materials began being produced on a large scale in the early 1950s. This volume...
Tag - environment
On survival reality TV shows, people like Bear Grylls often use sunlight and plastic to turn filthy water into drinking water.
Academics have now added...
A new technology that could improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells by almost 70% has been developed by researchers at the Technion Israel Institute of...
In a new study which has important implications for global climate change, researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and...
In a report published in the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, scientists describe an environmentally friendly, low-cost method to create printed...
Water pollution with crude or mineral oil has become an ongoing problem in our society. Methods used to clean up oil spills have problems of their own...
In spite of environmentalists’ efforts for years, scrap tires remain a huge problem. In 2013, the Rubber Manufacturers Association estimated that more...
After oxygen, silicon is the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. Its reserves are practically inexhaustible and it is cheap. When researchers...
A team of researchers from the United Kingdom say that a new form of clean, cheap and renewable energy could be sitting in our front and back yards. Garden...
It could have been a completely different story if the climatic changes that we now experience had happened sooner. In fact, things could have been a lot worse...
