Starting in 2019, Air Company had one aim– to turn carbon dioxide into useful products. Carbon dioxide accounts for about 79% of the greenhouse gases that human activities emit.
The Amazon rainforests in Brazil are considered to be the lungs of the Earth. They absorb 1.6 billion tonnes of CO2 annually , that’s 4% of global annual carbon emission by humans.
The global chip crisis is unlikely to affect India’s renewable energy drive, experts suggest. Although there are some issues with supply and availability of chips, it is unlikely to become very serious.
Scientists form the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre, Oxford University and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development have reported that the Australian rainforests are dying twice as fast as they were in the 1980s.
As several parts of India have been troubled with heatwaves, since last month. There has been a shortage of power because of increased consumption. For over 8 days in April, India witnessed a shortage of about 100 million units of electricity, resulting in power cuts.
Orlando Rojas at the University of British Columbia along with his colleagues have devised a process to turn recycled wood into a material that is five times stronger than steel.
According to a new Lancet study, more than 2.3 million Indians died prematurely in 2019 making it the highest among the other countries. The latest Lancet Commission on pollution and health report laid out some shocking numbers highlighting that about 9 million people lost their lives due to pollution.
In an attempt to reduce the ocean’s plastic pollution a New York based naval architect firm H2 industries designed a unique ship that can collect the plastic waste from the ocean and transform it into clean hydrogen.
The new report released by the World Meteorological Department (WMO) highlighted that the ocean’s temperature and acidic levels touched a record high in the last year. The ‘State of the Global Climate’ report highlighted that the record rise in the global temperature has resulted in the significant melting of glaciers and thus increased the sea level to new heights.
According to IEA’s 2020 report, the Netherlands’ 71% energy came from fossil based fuel sources..The country is now going to be the second in the list of countries issuing ban on fossil fuels for heating purposes after Germany.