Pollution Wins

Discarded rice husks capture toxic dyes, offering a reusable water filter

Scientists turned farm waste into a filter that captures toxic dyes and works 5 times.

'What's in it for me?' People more likely to help the environment when it benefits them

Focusing on personal benefits beats warning about harm for encouraging cleanup participation.

Fuel Cell Trucks And Buses Are Still Coming, And They Still Need More Green Hydrogen

Seaweed converts to green hydrogen 7x faster than land plants.

Newly unearthed mechanism that helps plants 'feel full' could help crops use fertilizer more efficiently

Scientists found the protein that tells plants when to stop absorbing nitrogen, potentially cutting

How simple amber lights could make nights safer for insects

Amber streetlights cut insect deaths by up to 51%, offering a simple fix to a growing crisis.

This Texas coal mine will soon be home to a 1.2GW solar farm

The largest solar farm on a North American brownfield site is being built for $1.7 billion in Texas.

A backup fluoride defense in soil bacteria could aid greener chemical production

Soil bacteria have a secret weapon against toxic fluoride.

New low-water method could make production of clean-energy materials much greener

A new method uses sound vibrations instead of huge amounts of water to make clean-energy materials.

Magnetic nanoparticles remove forever chemicals from water

87% of dangerous 'forever chemicals' removed from water using magnets.

Latest woodchip bioreactor sites reducing fertilizer pollution in local waterways by up to 99%

Woodchip bioreactors cut farm fertilizer pollution in waterways by up to 99%

New process turns plastic waste into hydrogen fuel while trapping the carbon

Only 9% of plastic gets recycled — new tech tackles that waste and produces clean energy at once.

The Arctic Ocean keeps permafrost carbon firmly locked

Scientists find Arctic seabed stores 90% of permafrost carbon instead of releasing it as greenhouse

Soy sauce refills and reused jars: can Philippines’ tingi culture hold back deluge of plastic waste?

A city barangay opened a zero-waste shop where 164 million daily sachets become reusable jars.

China’s 15th Five-Year Plan For Solar & Wind Is Huge

370 GW of new renewable capacity planned across 7 Chinese bases by 2030.

Study investigates how seven different Central European tree species respond to metal-contaminated soils

Scientists spent 5 years testing which trees can safely lock away toxic metals in soil.

The Grid That Knows Tomorrow: How AI Forecasting Could Cut Power Emissions by a Third

AI can now predict where and when electricity will be cleanest, letting grids slash emissions by

Three-dimensional visualization of nanoplastic distribution in the neonatal mouse brain

Scientists built a new 3D imaging method to watch nanoplastics move inside whole brains without

Gold-MXene catalyst converts nitrate to ammonia using sunlight and 1.5 volts

Scientists turn toxic wastewater nitrate into ammonia using only sunlight and 1.5 volts.

Captured carbon dioxide could yield strong, flexible plastics designed for recycling

Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is turned into strong, flexible, recyclable plastics.

Better guacamole? How avocado import rules helped cut Mexico's water pollution

Avocado imports to the US helped reduce water pollution in Mexico by up to 40%