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. […]
In the fight against climate change, China is doing more than you think — but still not enough
Phillip Stalley, DePaul University When it comes to climate change, no nation is more important than China. It consumes more coal than the rest of the world combined, and it […]
Bringing Paper and Fiber Products Full Circle with Sustainable Innovation
Today’s consumers are eco-conscious in their expectations of brands. The long-used manufacturing model of producing, using, and discarding packaging and products is now unacceptable. In fact, the majority of Millennials […]
How Manchester is making material gains for cities of the future
Manchester’s international reputation for innovation is entering new realms — with an ambitious community of experts, next-generation materials, new investment, and big plans for the future. Recognized as one of […]
CES 2022: C Space Keynote to Highlight Transformed Consumer Experience
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® today announced its CES® 2022 C Space keynote. In conversation with MediaLink Chairman and CEO Michael E. Kassan, the keynote will feature a panel discussion with Carolyn Everson, President, […]
4 unexpected places where adults can learn science
Jill Zarestky, Colorado State University Modern society benefits when people understand science concepts. This knowledge helps explain how cryptocurrency works, why climate change is happening, or how the coronavirus is […]
Electrify America Jolts Rural Areas in Southern California with Solar Charging Stations
In the ambitious push to install EV charging stations across the country, rural areas have largely seemed left behind and underserved. Increased efforts are underway to rectify that situation through […]
6 priorities could deliver energy breakthroughs at the Glasgow climate summit – there’s progress on some of them already
Dolf Gielen, Colorado School of Mines and Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines Much of the news coming out of the U.N. climate conference has focused on the spectacle, and […]
Geo Week Award Ceremony Nominations Accepted Until Dec 1
Geo Week to honor LIDAR leaders and younger geospatial professionals in Denver, Feb. 7, 2022 Geo Week, an event that champions the coming together of geospatial technologies and the built […]
4 File Management Tips for Small Businesses
Efficient file management is a requirement for all businesses, and small organizations are particularly susceptible to letting this slip. If you feel that your files are getting out of control, […]