Melting Ice and Rising Seas: The Looming Threat to Cold War-Era Nuclear Waste Sites

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 28, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

In a world grappling with the intensifying impacts of climate change, a recent report casts a stark light on an often-overlooked consequence: the potential resurgence of nuclear and chemical wastes from Cold War-era U.S. projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands....

Special EU fund for coal regions looks good but is costly, warns Czech study

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 22, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Creating a new European fund to support coal regions – the Just Transition Fund – may look like a positive step for disadvantaged areas, but its administration is complex, costly and threatens its effective use, warns a new Czech study based on interviews with...

Commission welcomes provisional agreement on tackling ship-source pollution to help make European seas cleaner

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 19, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached last night between the European Parliament and the Council on the amendment of Directive 2005/35/EC on ship-source pollution and on the introduction of penalties for pollution offences. The co-legislators agreed...

Nanoscale research might help convert CO2 waste into usable products

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 8, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The drive to capture airborne carbon dioxide from industrial waste and make it into fuel and plastics is gaining momentum after a team of researchers at McMaster University and computational chemistry experts at Copenhagen’s Danish Technical University uncovered...

Some Plastic Straws Degrade Quicker Than Others, New Study Shows

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 7, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Straws are one of the most common plastic waste products found on coastlines. As more and more plastic products are being produced, consumed, and disposed of, scientists and manufacturers are developing alternative materials that work equally as well, and don’t...