Mar 13, 2025 | Climate, Satellites, Space
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calculated that as global warming caused by...
Feb 27, 2025 | Climate, Transit
If the budget is approved by the state Legislature, another $350 million would be invested from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative for “clean energy and decarbonization projects” in the state. The initiative, called RGGI, is a multi-state cap-and-trade agreement...
Feb 6, 2025 | Climate, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Transportation sector emissions have accelerated the climate crisis – automobiles are the second-largest source of greenhouse gases and have nearly doubled since 1990 – but they may soon be thrown in reverse thanks to electric vehicles. New research from the...
Jan 30, 2025 | Climate, Energy, Featured, Hydrogen
In a recent study published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Washington State University Professor Bin Yang and colleagues demonstrated that their lignin-based jet fuel can chemically bind hydrogen in a stable liquid form. This...
Jan 9, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate, Smart Cities
The image of smog blanketing a traffic-choked urban highway has cemented the perception that cars are the primary source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the driving force behind climate change. In reality, gas-powered cars and vans account for only about 10%...
Dec 9, 2024 | Autonomous Ships, Climate, Drones
A small fleet of drone submarines sits in drydock at a Virginia Tech engineering building. They’re autonomous underwater vehicles, AUVs for short, and they come in multiple sizes. Among them are three bright yellow ones called 690 AUV. They’re as tall as an NBA...
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