Carbon Robotics Secures $30M to Sell AI-powered Weed Destroying Robots
Carbon Robotics, a Seattle-based robotics company, has raised $30 million in funding to expand its production and sales of AI-powered weed-destroying machines. The funding round was led by new investor […]
Jeremy Renner’s New Disney+ Show, Rennervations, Gives Back to Communities Around the World
Two time Academy Award nominee, Jeremy Renner, is famous for his iconic roles in blockbuster films like The Avengers and The Hurt Locker. But lesser known is that he’s also […]
Tech News to Know This Week: April 11 – 17
Every day we wake up, drink some coffee, get ready for work and check on the latest tech. So here’s a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed […]
Researchers Turned Superglue Into a Recyclable, Cheap, Oil-free Plastic Alternative
Allison Christy, Boise State University and Scott Phillips, Boise State University The big idea Our team used superglue as a starting material to develop a low-cost, recyclable and easily produced […]
These Five Crypto Mining Trends Will Have the Biggest Impacts in 2023
Cryptocurrency mining hardware using blockchain technology
Superconductor Discovery Could Revolutionize Energy
University of Rochester researchers revealed this week a major development in energy technology: A commercially feasible superconductor that operates at room temperature. The breakthrough was announced by Raga Dias, a […]
Chemicals from Ohio Train Derailment Spark Concerns of Acid Rain
On Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio, a Norfolk Southern a freight train traveling East from Illinois broke down and then derailed in the small town of about 4700 people, […]
EV Makers Spend Big For Super Bowl Ads
GM, Dodge, Jeep & Kia ran high-dollar 60-second commercials for Super Bowl 57 that revealed very little information on their models. But there were some yuks, so here they are:
Smart City Initiatives are Creating the Framework for a More Sustainable World
It’s a Monday morning, and Murphy’s Law is in full effect. The alarm was set an hour later than intended and the spouse, child and dog have penetrated your inner […]
Innovations for Space Have Snowball Effect on Earth
Memory foam, freeze-dried food, cochlear implants, the OpenStack cloud computing platform, oil-free lubricants, and CMOS image sensors like the one in your smartphone: These are all examples of aerospace and […]
7 Technologies Powering Renewable Growth in 2023
It’s a wonder humanity isn’t powered 100% by alternative energy technologies with just how many innovations there are. The green energy sector is booming, driven by demand and falling prices. […]
3 Things a Climate Scientist Wants World Leaders to Know Ahead of COP27
Andrew King, The University of Melbourne World leaders and climate experts are gathering for pivotal United Nations climate change talks in Egypt. Known as COP27, the conference will aim to […]
Benefits of Debt-for-Climate Swaps
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley spoke passionately to the United Nations General Assembly in September about the mounting debt many developing countries are shouldering and its increasing impact on […]
3 Amazing Technologies That Help Make Drinking Water Safer
Clean drinking water is essential to maintaining your general health. Going without clean drinking water for too long can cause lasting health problems and make you extremely sick. Fortunately, new […]
AgTech Steps in to Meet Carbon Credit Demand, Expected to Hit $50B by 2030
Environmental efforts that have been a major part of every major government and organization around the world for the past years. Of these efforts, carbon credits have proven to be […]
5 Challenges of Doing College in the Metaverse
Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro More and more colleges are becoming “metaversities,” taking their physical campuses into a virtual online world, often called the “metaverse.” One initiative […]
Cheap Material Could Capture CO2 Exhaust From Auto Tailpipes
BY ROBERT SANDERS-UC BERKELEY Researchers have created a cheap, easy, and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. They used an inexpensive polymer called melamine—the main component of Formica. The […]
OAC is Creating the Model for the Future of Construction Intelligence
Technology in the construction industry has been evolving for over 6,000 years. As one of our most basic necessities, construction and architecture chart back to the earliest days of civilization […]
Net Zero Water Challenge Innovations Spring Forward
Emission-cutting innovations from three global technology leaders are being accelerated through the UK water sector, thanks to new collaborative platform Spring. Technologies from Siemens, Xylem and Cobalt Water Global are being mobilized […]
Virtual Reality Platform ecosphere Releases New 360° Doc ‘Sea of Islands’ with the United Nations
ecosphere, the award-winning documentary title from immersive technology studio PHORIA, and Meta Quest, will today release brand new 360° content in partnership with the United Nations. Since its initial launch […]
Dear Elon Musk, We’d Like These by Christmas. Thanks.
Few minds have the level of creativity and checkbook to back it up quite like Tesla founder Elon Musk. From Neuralink to normalizing the electric car, Musk has introduced the […]
Ice World: Antarctica’s Riskiest Glacier is Under Assault from Below and Losing its Grip
Ted Scambos, University of Colorado Boulder Flying over Antarctica, it’s hard to see what all the fuss is about. Like a gigantic wedding cake, the frosting of snow on top […]
50 Years of UN Environmental Diplomacy: What’s Worked and the Trends Ahead
Mihaela Papa, Tufts University In 1972, acid rain was destroying trees. Birds were dying from DDT poisoning, and countries were contending with oil spills, contamination from nuclear weapons testing and […]
Into the Unknown: Stone Recalls Filming New Doc ‘Explorer: The Deepest Cave’
In true National Geographic fashion, Explorer: The Deepest Cave follows Dr. Bill Stone and his team into the deepest recesses of the unknown. The one-hour special follows renowned cave explorer […]
While Many Solar Roofing Options Make Big Promises, GAF Energy’s Timberline Solar™ Delivers
Modern solar roofing options are getting a lot of attention lately. In addition to rack-mounted, bolted-on solar panels, sleeker designs have emerged, like edge-to-edge glass solar tiles. These new products […]
Social Issues Driving Innovation in Tech
Social issues have always been the preeminent force behind innovation, and technological innovation is no exception. After all, what is the purpose of technology if not to meet a human […]
How Is AI Changing the Environment for the Better?
Significant investments and research developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have made the technology a powerful asset in many industries — including environmental studies. AI isn’t a new technology, but businesses […]
Who is Leading the Way to Sustainability in Travel Tech?
Sustainability is at the forefront of peoples’ minds more than ever before, and with the 2021 COP26 Summit in Glasgow, Scotland still fresh in our collective psyche, travelers are looking […]
Converting CO2 to Sugar: Air Company’s Winning Plan
The Air Company in New York has won first place in NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge. The competition was for competitors to come up with a way that CO2 conversion could […]
How a few geothermal plants could solve America’s lithium supply crunch and boost the EV battery industry
Bryant Jones, Boise State University and Michael McKibben, University of California, Riverside Geothermal energy has long been the forgotten member of the clean energy family, overshadowed by relatively cheap solar […]
Robotic Food Delivery? It’s Coming
Imagine ordering out from your favorite short-order restaurant half-asleep, pining for that first cup of coffee. The delivery arrives, you look up — and find a robot with your order. […]
Going Green at the Tokyo Summer Olympics
First published in the Winter 2021 issue of Sustianability Today. When it finally arrived a year late, the Tokyo Summer Olympics proved to be an amazing two weeks of world […]
Innovation & Tech Today Names the Top 50 Most Innovative Products of 2021
Innovation & Tech Today (I&TT), one of the leading publishers of content on innovation, technology, and the sciences, today has announced the winners of its Top 50 Most Innovative Products […]
An Infrastructure Bill with a Sustainable Twist
When Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, they also ushered in something new — a major commitment to a clean energy future. For the past decade, we’ve experienced quite a […]
How Brad Pitt’s Green Housing Dream for Katrina Survivors Turned Into a Nightmare
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation built 109 eye-catching and affordable homes in New Orleans for a community where many people were displaced by damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina in […]
Why Can’t We Throw All Our Trash Into a Volcano and Burn It Up?
Emily Johnson, US Geological Survey Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. […]
4 New Year’s resolutions for a healthier environment in 2022
Viniece Jennings, Agnes Scott College When many people think of New Year’s resolutions, they brainstorm ways to improve themselves for the year ahead. What if we expanded those aspirations to […]
5 Things to Know This Morning — Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
Tornadoes and Climate Change: What a Warming World Means for Deadly Twisters
John Allen, Central Michigan University The deadly tornado outbreak that tore through communities from Arkansas to Illinois on the night of Dec. 10-11, 2021, was so unusual in its duration […]
3 Overlooked Industries Helping to Push Renewable Energy and Sustainable Resources Forward
There’s no doubt we have reached a point of climate crisis. The decisions we make and actions we take as a society now could have grave consequences for our planet. […]