Some scientists are carrying out research to see if enzymes could play a key part in doing that job. An example is a Boston-based company called Breaking, which has taken up the mission to find a ...

Global electricity generation grew by over 1,200 TWh. Of this increase, 480 TWh was from solar photovoltaics, 190TWh was from hydropower, and 180 TWh was from wind power. In 2024, six nuclear projects ...

According to ESA’s space debris environment model MASTER (Meteoroid and Space Debris Terrestrial Environment Reference), there were 54,000 space debris objects greater than 10 cm (4 in), 1.2 million ...

Solar is a game changer for Raymond Cardinal, who has a cabin out on the Peace Athabasca Delta in Canada’s north. It used to take 20 liters of gas to run the generator for 24 hours at the cabin. These ...

“Today, the tallest mass timber building is the 25-story Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee, completed in 2022,” Kurt Kleiner wrote in Knowable Magazine in October. As of 2022, Kleiner added, “there were ...

Since taking an interest in solar grazing, Janna has developed significant expertise in vegetation management, improving soil quality, and planting the right species to improve the land and growth of ...

In 1916, the crew of Antarctic explorers were in a perilous situation. Five months earlier, they had managed to escape their ship, the Endurance, as it slowly sank beneath the treacherous pack-ice of ...

Global electricity reached a record high in 2023 of 29,471 terawatt-hours (TWh), largely due to electric vehicles, heat pumps, electrolyzers, air conditioning, and data centers. The 627 TWh increase ...

Much like solar farms and rooftop panels, balcony solar devices use photovoltaic cells to capture energy from sunlight and convert it to electricity. Also known as plug-in solar devices, they consist ...

A sea change in the method of long-distance power transmissions is one example. Traditionally, transmission of electric power has been performed by high voltage lines carrying alternating current or ...

According to USA Facts, which relies on government statistics, over the last 40 years, the number of natural disasters in the US that cost over $1 billion has increased. In the 1980s, the US averaged ...

The Global Peatlands Initiative, led by the UN Environment Programme, aims to save peatlands to prevent carbon from being emitted into the atmosphere. Its Global Peatlands Assessment outlines how some ...