New approach to satellite-based emission monitoring of air pollutants with a high level of detail.

Each year, over 400 million metric tons of plastic are produced globally from petrochemicals derived from fossil fuels.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from industry can be reduced by five per cent. 

Management, sustainability plans could decrease human, wildlife exposure.

Engineers from Australia and China have invented a sponge-like device that captures water from thin air and then releases it in a cup using the sun’s energy, even in low humidity where other technologies such as fog harvesting and radiative cooling have struggled.

Biochar is being trialled in poultry housing and manure as a method of reducing air and water pollution from farms in the UK.

A team of researchers from Rice University, Carnegie Mellon University and other leading global institutions has outlined a bold new roadmap for harnessing heterogeneous catalysis to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the so-called “forever chemicals” that have contaminated water supplies worldwide.

According to UNESCO, plastic waste makes up 80% of all marine pollution, with 8-10 million metric tons of plastic making its way into our oceans each year.

One of the pillars of the Brazilian economy and one of the sectors responsible for the highest greenhouse gas emissions, beef production in Brazil, as it is currently practiced, emits more than twice the limit needed to meet international environmental targets.

Concentrations as high as those by a busy road illustrate the importance of solutions.