Green cement production is scaling up – and it could cut the carbon footprint of construction

The greenhouse gas emissions from concrete production are hard to cut but a new low-carbon cement facility is scaling up production of a far more sustainable alternative.

Jamie Goggins, Professor of Civil Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway • conversation
April 17, 2024 ~8 min

Global shipping is under pressure to stop its heavy fuel oil use fast – that’s not simple, but changes are coming

Shipping companies have billions invested in fleets that were built to last decades. Now, the US is calling for zero emissions by 2050, and the EU is raising the cost of fossil fuel use.

Don Maier, Associate Professor of Business, University of Tennessee • conversation
April 24, 2023 ~8 min


Electric car supplies are running out – and could drastically slow down the journey to net-zero

Governments may be forced to put back deadlines to shift away from petrol and diesel.

Tom Stacey, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University • conversation
May 11, 2022 ~6 min

Electric heat pumps use much less energy than furnaces, and can cool houses too – here's how they work

Heat pumps are the technology of choice for heating and cooling buildings more efficiently and with fewer carbon emissions than furnaces and air conditioning. Here's how they work.

Robert Brecha, Professor of Sustainability, University of Dayton • conversation
June 14, 2021 ~8 min

There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be

Even if they can't save us from climate change, society still depends on forests.

Bonnie Waring, Senior Lecturer, Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London • conversation
April 23, 2021 ~26 min

It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn – here's why AI is so power-hungry

Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it's working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it.

Kate Saenko, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University • conversation
Dec. 14, 2020 ~8 min

Why we need the opposite of a carbon tax to reduce emissions

Making the solutions cheaper – rather than the problems more expensive – could reduce emissions more fairly.

Sumedha Basu, PhD Candidate in Sustainability, University of Warwick • conversation
June 24, 2020 ~7 min

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