Sustainability
Every April for the past five years, Lab Manager’s cover story has highlighted developments in green laboratory practices.
Scientists are turning old CDs and DVDs into materials that could help reduce emissions of greenhouse gases
With freezers and fume hoods running nonstop, it’s no surprise that lab facilities hog more resources than do most other workspaces.
Less than 1 percent of Earth’s water is drinkable. Removing salt and other minerals from our biggest available source of water—seawater—may help satisfy a growing global population thirsty for fresh water for drinking, farming, transportation, heating, cooling and industry. But desalination is an energy-intensive process, which concerns those wanting to expand its application.
Findings on patent-pending HER catalyst Ni5P4 reported in Royal Society of Chemistry's Energy & Environmental Science; operating stability and efficiency to be tested over extended time periods in commercial electrolyzers and fuel cells.
Berkeley Lab researchers find way to improve the cost-effectiveness through the use of MOFs.
Knowing where your electricity comes from to power those "eco-alternatives" is critical
A Missouri University of Science and Technology professor has shown that improving wastewater treatment and saving energy are not only essential, but they’re also compatible.
The first nationwide vulnerability assessment for ocean acidification, published today in Nature Climate Change, shows that coastal communities in 15 states that depend on the nation’s approximately $1 billion shelled-mollusk (e.g., oysters and clams) industry are at long-term economic risk from ocean acidification.
A recent study involving Kansas State University researchers finds that in the coming decades at least one-quarter of the world's wheat production will be lost to extreme weather from climate change if no adaptive measures are taken.
The computer work happening inside the University of Kentucky Davis Marksbury Building is attracting worldwide attention.
