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New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency

New plant-based plastics can be chemically recycled with near-perfect efficiency Derived from plant oils, the new plastics were presented in a paper published Wednesday in Nature as low-waste, environmentally friendly replacements to the conventional fossil fuel-based plastics that enter natural ecosystems at a rate…

The world is running out of sand — and there’s a black market for it now

If you’re planning a beach vacation, you’d better get to it soon. An alarming statistic for you: 67% of Southern California beaches? GONE by 2100. All because of sand. Even if you don’t think about the grainy stuff, you use…

Wearables Computing made of Mushrooms… Finally

Machine learning is the new electricity, quantum computing is now a reality, but what if we can go beyond those buzz words with something even more impressive? Prof. Andrew Adamatzky is a known figure in the field of unconventional computing. He…

Setting climate change in stone by petrifying carbon

Direct air capture of carbon dioxide and forcing it underground is just one technology in the fight against climate change, but is it viable? On a barren hillside in southwest Iceland, workers are installing huge fans to suck carbon dioxide…

Whistleblower Accuses Exxon of ‘Fraudulent’ Behavior for Overvaluing Fracking Assets For Years

ExxonMobil announced a $19.3 billion write-down on Tuesday, a big hit to a company reeling from depressed oil and gas prices and a rapidly changing global energy market. The write-down reduces the value of the assets on Exxon’s books. The announcement comes as…

Green, clean and mean: Hamilton, Button in charged race for the climate

Extreme E, a new off-road racing series, has been created by the Alejandro Agag, the founder of Formula E (Formula One’s electric counterpart). F1 legends like Sir Lewis Hamilton, Jensen Button, and Nico Rosberg and have already jumped on board…

Ivory by any other name: Illegal trade thrives on eBay, study finds

A new study finds that ivory is still being regularly traded on eBay, despite the e-commerce site prohibiting this kind of trade. The study focused on the online trade of miniature Japanese sculptures called netsuke, which are traditionally made from…

More than 50 countries commit to protecting 30% of Earth’s land and oceans

A coalition of more than 50 countries has committed to protect almost a third of the planet by 2030 to halt the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife. The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and…

Our Forests Are on Track to Hit a Crucial Climate Tipping Point by 2050, Scientists Warn

  Forests and other land ecosystems today absorb 30 percent of humanity’s CO2 pollution, but rapid global warming could transform these natural ‘sinks’ into carbon ‘sources’ within a few decades, opening another daunting front in the fight against climate change, alarmed researchers have said….

Cleveland Based Green Paper Products Proves That Green and Clean Can Co-Exist

As the restaurant industry shifted its focus to takeout and delivery, many restaurateurs quickly realized that there’s much more to running a successful takeout and delivery business than moving meals off dishes and into containers. The three major challenges businesses have…

New catalyst converts common plastic waste into fuels and wax

As useful as plastics are in our everyday life, they’re difficult to recycle, meaning most ends up in landfill or polluting the environment. Now, researchers in Japan have used a novel catalyst to recycle a common plastic into useful products like fuel and wax.