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Image: iStock What do cities like Madrid, Denmark, Mexico City, Paris and the Netherlands share? A new strategy to limit cars in their cities. While some cities are moving towards autonomous, [...]

A report presented at the World Economic Forum in May 2018 by Owen Gaffney and Johan Falk identifies 12 ways in which Big Tech can help make a difference in climate change. From AI oil recovery [...]

Image: A rice field in Indonesia. Photo by Joel Vodell on Unsplash. A new study from the UN and World Bank highlights 10 technologies that will be important to boost crop yields and reduce [...]

Image: Avalon Studio: Stock A new McGill study finds billions of microplastics being consumed in every cup of tea. Learn More.

Want to help remove 40 billion plastic utensils from reaching the landfill each year? Why not demand that your favourite Take-Out restaurant use only edible cutlery.  Now available from Bakeys [...]

Photo: Professor Tilak Dias of NTU’s School of Art & Design. Credit: Nottingham Trent University While not quite powerful enough to charge your lap top, miniature solar cells woven into [...]

If we could fully maximize the sun hitting the earth’s surface (more than 2 trillion MWh per day) we could solve many of our existing energy problems. But problems of storage and cell [...]

What do SAI, MCB, CCT mean? What do they have in common? They are just a few of the cool geoengineering solutions being imagined to combat climate change. Learn what they are, where they are [...]

Iceland company Carbon Recycling International produces renewable methanol from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and electricity. The resultant fuel increases efficiency and creates fuel to produce [...]

Image: Researchers are developing lower-emissions rice varieties, feed additives and other technological innovations to create a more sustainable food system. Photo by Kate Holt/AusAID The World [...]