Over the past 20 years, glaciers worldwide have lost 273 billion tonnes of ice to a warming world, and this ice loss has driven sea levels to rise at an accelerated pace, according to a decades-long comprehensive analysis based on satellite data.
The Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI), led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is custom engineering feedstock plants and microbes for a thriving bioeconomy. CBI builds on a robust legacy of scientific understanding to provide breakthroughs for a new generation of cost-effective, environmentally positive, and industrially relevant bioproducts and biofuels, including sustainable aviation fuels.
Genome editing faces regulatory uncertainty across the globe. Transparency from all of the players in the field remains key for the technology to gain public acceptance.
As a species, we’ve reshaped the world to suit our ambitions – building cities that scrape the skies and digital networks that pulse with life. But in doing so, we’ve also filled the air with invisible threats. The atmosphere of opportunity surrounding us is often tainted – thick with pollutants that quietly infiltrate our lungs.
Sustainable aviation fuel is having a moment in Minnesota.
Lawmakers are considering a broad expansion of tax credits for producers of the fuels, in hope of positioning Minnesota as a leading manufacturer.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency recently awarded a grant to the University of Minnesota to study a new oil-producing field crop that holds promise as a chief component of the fuel.
Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics.
A high-end medical practice is offering clients the purported service of scrubbing their blood of microplastics.
As the single largest land use in the United States, grasslands offer tremendous potential for carbon sequestration and opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, if managed properly.
From the record surge in renewable diesel use and BEV registrations to a 50% spike in natural gas trucks in 2024 and growing hydrogen use, fleets are embracing diverse decarbonization strategies — even as uncertainty clouds the policy landscape and federal support shrinks.
Whether we know it, or like it, our bodies are polluted by tiny fragments of plastic that fail to break down in our earthly environment. What does that mean for our long-term health, and what can we do about it?