As the Clean Energy Transformation Act drives Washington state toward carbon-free electricity, a new energy landscape is taking shape.
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A New ‘Gold Standard’ Compound For Generating Electricity From Heat
Thermoelectric power generators that make electrical power from waste heat would be a useful tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if it weren’t for a most vexing problem: the need to make electrical contacts to their hot side, which is often just too hot for materials that can generate a current.
Keeping More Ammonium in Soil Could Decrease Pollution, Boost Crops
Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing human population and how to minimize environmental damage associated with intensive agriculture.
Scientists Find Solution to Measure Harmful Plastic Particles in Human Sewage
Scientists have got up close and personal with human sewage to determine how best to measure hidden and potentially dangerous plastics.
Better Peatland Management Could Cut Half a Billion Tonnes of Carbon
Half a billion tonnes of carbon emissions could be cut from Earth’s atmosphere by improved management of peatlands, according to research partly undertaken at the University of Leicester.
Deep Oceans Dissolve the Rocky Shell of Water-Ice Planets
What is happening deep beneath the surface of ice planets?


