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, […]
5 Things to Know With Your Morning Coffee — Tuesday, October 12, 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 […]
Pittsburgh — From Steel City to Smart City
When Andrew Carnegie, Thomas and Andrew Mellon, E.J. Heinz, George Westinghouse, Edwin Drake, and Henry Clay Frick moved into Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood in the mid-19th century and launched the […]
The Virtual Vacation: Around the World in Your Easy Chair
The spread of COVID-19 has fundamentally disrupted everyday life for millions of people throughout the world. For many, travel plans have been canceled or delayed indefinitely. However, if there were […]
Top 10 Sustainable Fashion Companies
By Melissa Jenkins & Destiny Nolan Fashion companies have gotten the message loud and clear: sustainable practices, hiring choices, materials selection, growing of plants needed to make materials, and disposal […]
Arctic sea ice hits its minimum extent for the year – 2 NASA scientists explain what’s driving the overall decline
Alek Petty, NASA and Linette Boisvert, NASA September marks the end of the summer sea ice melt season and the Arctic sea ice minimum when sea ice over the Northern […]
5 Things to Know With Your Morning Coffee — Tuesday, September 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 […]
Wings Introduces Nectar for Autonomous Sustainable Retail
Wings, an emerging robotics and AI startup developing autonomous businesses for all, today announced the release of Nectar, which brings a new category of Autonomous Sustainable Retail (ASR) to life. […]
These 3 energy storage technologies can help solve the challenge of moving to 100% renewable electricity
Kerry Rippy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory In recent decades, the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. This is one reason that the U.S. Department of Energy […]
Coral Reef Restoration Technology May Reverse Climate Change Damage
The world is experiencing record-breaking summer temperatures. As the heat increased, various individuals flooded the beaches searching for relief. Some may consider the heightened surface temperature’s effect on aquatic ecosystems […]
Hyzon Motors Partners with RenewH2 to Develop Widespread Liquid Hydrogen Fueling Stations
Hyzon Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: HYZN), a global manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cell-powered commercial vehicles, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with RenewH2, a U.S.-based sustainable hydrogen production, liquefaction, distribution, and dispensing […]
Leading Experts Urge Applying The Power of Quantum Technology To Sustainability In New Documentary
A new documentary – Quantum Technology | Our Sustainable Future from The Quantum Daily, developed in partnership with Oxford Instruments Nanoscience – was released today with a call from industry experts to leverage the power […]
Explorer Bob Ballard — the Man Who Found Titanic — Talks Shipwrecks, Sea Creatures, STEM
The man who found Titanic. That phrase may be why you opened this story, but there is so much more to Dr. Bob Ballard than simply that single fact. In […]
Waste Reduction? More Like Reproduction
Right now, there are over seven billion people walking or crawling on the earth. Right now, North America ranks fifth in the world for population density behind Asia, Africa, Europe, […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Monday, May 3, 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 […]
Watching A Coral Reef Die: Climate Change Devastates Tropical Island
Sam Purkis, University of Miami The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands in […]
Secrets of the Whales Premieres Today — Our Chat with Producer Brian Skerry
Brian Skerry couldn’t believe his eyes. And his are eyes that have spent 40 years shooting sea photography, and nearly a quarter-century filming and shooting for National Geographic. What developed […]
How Hemp Can Create a More Sustainable Future
By BEAU PETERS Although many global citizens are just now recognizing the wonders of hemp, humans have a rich history of co-existence with the hemp plant. Researchers at MIT, in […]