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Green Heating and Cooling Technology Turns Carbon from Eco-Villain to Hero

Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in some extremely green heating products for our homes and in air conditioning equipment for our cars.
Most domestic heating and [...]

How Women Can Save the Planet

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Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism in the children they raise
At six billion plus today, the earth’s human population will reach more than nine billion by 2050, according to estimates. If this many people consume energy at the current rate [...]

White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cutters

Their solution was a new roof: a shiny plasticized white covering that experts say is not only an energy saver but also a way to help cool the planet.

Mars Mission Could Ease Earth’s Energy Supply Crisis

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Techniques and instrumentation initially developed for ExoMars — Europe’s next robotic mission to Mars in 2016, but now due to fly on a NASA mission in 2018 — could also provide the answers to the globally pressing issue of energy supply.
A major study by the Imperial College London, funded by the Science and [...]

Hybrid Vehicles That Are Even More Efficient

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One of the controllable causes of global warming is carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from burning fossil fuels. This process is precisely what enables most cars to function by means of combustion engines. In recent years, some companies in the automobile sector have brought out models that combine a standard combustion engine with an [...]