So, why would humans move away from toilet paper? According to Think Stewartville, "Environmental concerns, health implications, and cultural preferences are driving this change toward more sustainable alternatives."
In 2021, researchers from the University of California's Merced and Santa Cruz campuses calculated that covering California's canals with solar panels could generate huge amounts of energy while conserving water.
Instead, this concept utilizes gravity and renewable energy to transform the defunct locations into next-generation power sites, according to reports from "Reasons to be Cheerful" and "Popular Mechanics".
Mehdi Khanzadeh, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, developed a promising new method for creating carbonatable concrete — a material that not only emits less pollution during production but also absorbs carbon dioxide from the air as it cures.
Oceana's latest report, "Coca-Cola's World With Waste," highlighted the reality of the beverage company's plastic creation and pollution. If today's trends continue, its annual plastic use will exceed 9.1 billion pounds by 2030. This number is a 40 percent increase from 2018 and a 20 percent increase from 2023.
The German content creator was known for posting alongside her boyfriend Fernando, who started a GoFundMe for Konopka when she became ill in the Philippines on 31 December 2024. He posted an update on their shared Facebook page on 7 March to announce the news of her death.
Green cryptocurrencies are digital currencies mined using clean energy resources such as wind, hydro or solar power instead of fossil fuel.
Deadly fires erupted across Southern California this week, which were amplified by fierce winds that resulted in about 10,000 homes and businesses being destroyed. After fire hydrants weren't producing water and homes burned to the ground, residents began calling out Democratic-led leadership in the state, who cut the Los Angeles Fire Department's (LAFD) funding by $17.6 million just months prior.
The lightbulb moment came when Olivia English spent countless hours picking up litter at her landscaping jobs. "Every job I went to, before we could start, it was picking up all of this trash," she told Fox 4. She kept wondering where it all went.
Scientists analyzed coal ash from power plants across the United States and found it could contain up to 11 million tons of rare earth elements — nearly eight times the amount the US has in domestic reserves — worth around US$ 8.4 billion, according to recent research led by the University of Texas at Austin.
With Coca-Cola and PepsiCo ranked as top global plastic polluters, the county said these practices contribute significantly to environmental harm, including microplastic pollution.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called it a "moonshot moment": a 12-day meeting for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), looking to protect and restore land and respond to drought amid the onslaught of climate change.
However, countries remained far apart on the basic scope of a treaty and could agree only to postpone key decisions and resume talks, dubbed INC 5.2, to a later date.
Three years later, Shell managed to win its appeal against this ruling. In the court's view, Shell doesn’t have a "social standard of care" to curtail emissions, the BBC reports.
Problem is, this method is incredibly power intensive with nearly half of the input energy going towards just boiling the water. But, a team of researchers from Rice University have developed a new technique that not only drastically reduces the amount of energy needed but can decouple the process from the power grid altogether.
As CNN reported, Hunters Point, a waterfront neighborhood in Cortez, Florida, is touted as the world's first residential development to attain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design net-zero credentials.
It weighs no more than 300g, fits easily into a backpack and looks like any other plastic bag, but the simple device is a life-saver for people who have no access to clean, drinking water.
The bag, called Fieldtrate Lite, filters dirty water, such as river water, through a membrane and turns it into potable water in the same time it would take to run it from the tap.
Last June, Knoxville received US 25,000 to get rid of bush honeysuckle, privet, and more, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. The 100-acre project covers greenways, the Ijams Nature Center, and other locations around the city.
Brazil's worst drought on record has resulted to fuel wildfires in the Amazon rainforest. The Pantanal, a region that encompasses the world's largest tropical wetland area, in August experienced a 3,901 percent increase in its fires compared to August 2023, Greenpeace noted, based on reporting by the country's National Institute for Space Research.
While some of those hurdles have been overcome, building robust materials capable of surviving the hellish conditions inside tokamaks is the next frontier.