Why Some City Districts Go Energy Positive and Others Fall Short
A comparative study of districts in Bucharest, Copenhagen and Parma shows that positive energy district status hinges on accounting boundaries, ...
Tag: Life Cycle Assessment
Water Treatment Gets a Carbon Makeover as Scientists Redefine Advanced Oxidation
A Nature Water perspective argues that advanced oxidation processes must be redesigned around minimized chemical use, optimized energy and waste ...
Recycling’s Hidden Workhorse: How Black Mass Separation Could Make Battery Reuse Pay
A detailed techno-economic and life cycle assessment shows mechanical black mass separation from spent EV and phone batteries is highly ...
Scientists Map the Fierce Debates Shaping How We Judge Tomorrow’s Green Technologies
A landmark consensus paper in the Journal of Industrial Ecology exposes the deep methodological disagreements among life cycle assessment experts ...
Special Issue Highlights Interdisciplinary Advances in Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
A new Special Issue in Environmental Science and Pollution Research highlights nine peer-reviewed studies on renewable energy, waste valorization, and ...
Green Buildings May Be Fragile: New Framework Reveals Hidden Carbon Cost of Disruption
A new systematic review of 40 building life cycle assessment studies reveals that conventional LCA cannot measure resilience, and proposes ...
Scientists Propose a Single ‘Biodiversity Equivalent’ Metric to Rival CO2 Accounting
Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä have developed a unified biodiversity equivalent metric and an accounting framework that puts a ...
Steel and Cement, Not Diesel, Dominate the Carbon Footprint of Railway Construction
A life cycle assessment of a 93-kilometre Thai double-track railway found that upstream material production generated 96.19 percent of construction ...
AI Data Centers Are Exporting Carbon and Water Stress Across Borders, Study Finds
New research quantifies how AI data-center siting decisions shift carbon and water burdens across borders, triggering transboundary harm norms and ...
Where Does Plastic Really Go? New Global Model Finds Land Is the Biggest Sink
A new global model tracking macroplastic across 285 river basins finds that roughly 73 percent of plastic emitted on land ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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