4+ day, 28+ min ago   (477+ words) Africa’s renewable energy market could increase from 86.95 gigawatts (GW) in 2026 to 179.66 GW in 2031, representing a compound annual growth rate of 15.62%, according to a report published Aug. 11 by research and consulting firm Mordor Intelligence. Solar module prices also fell to $0.12 per…...

3+ hour, 41+ min ago   (319+ words) ULSAN, Sept. 13 (Yonhap) -- SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has called for efforts to develop a sustainable business model for artificial intelligence (AI), saying massive investment in the technology must ultimately generate returns to sustain investment and growth. Chey made the…...

5+ min ago   (660+ words) Two of the most troublesome greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide, can be forced to react with one another in a process known as dry reforming of methane, a reaction that converts both pollutants into valuable synthesis gas, a mixture…...

48+ min ago   (55+ words) Chemists in Pakistan have shown that the secret to extracting powerful antioxidant compounds from the leaves of the lemon-scented eucalyptus tree lies in matching the polarity of the solvent to the chemistry of the target molecules. In a study published…...

58+ min ago   (662+ words) Every act of cooking, drying, baking, frying, extruding or three-dimensionally printing a food depends on a deceptively simple physical event: an edible material passing from a fluid-like state to a solid-like one, or back again....

58+ min ago   (704+ words) Every year, billions of tires reach the end of their service life, and engineers have long sought ways to turn this rubbery mountain of waste into something useful....

58+ min ago   (524+ words) Every year, the world brews billions of cups of coffee, and almost all of the spent grounds end up in landfills, where they slowly decompose and release methane....

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (351+ words) Hydrogen produced by splitting water with sunlight has long been one of the most attractive goals in sustainable energy research, offering a clean fuel whose only byproduct when burned is water. Photocatalytic water splitting, in which semiconductor materials absorb light…...

6+ hour, 8+ min ago   (1191+ words) Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.” Atahualpa Sofía Enciso’s children don’t know what a normal river is, she says. Living by the Santiago River in the state of…...

2+ hour, 40+ min ago   (88+ words) Chemists at Shihezi University in China have shown that the shape of a catalyst can matter as much as its chemistry, reporting that hollow spherical alumina particles outperform conventional forms of the same material in a key industrial reaction. In…...