Chinese scientists turn carbon dioxide to starch with 10-fold productivity boost
Chinese scientists have increased the yield of a carbon dioxide-to-starch conversion method by more than 10 times, potentially…
Tectonic Plate Movements, Not Volcanoes, Drove Major Climate Shifts Over 540 Million Years
New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic eruptions, played the…
CO2 + H2O = cleaner recycling of dead lithium batteries?
Chinese scientists have found a way to recycle lithium batteries using only carbon dioxide and water – eliminating…
3I/ATLAS Shows Signs of Full Cometary Awakening after Perihelion
According to new observations by NASA’s SPHEREx mission, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has dramatically changed its behavior, developing…
Geoengineering The Ocean — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. It is fashionable today to lambaste scientists as…
Are Colorado’s carbon emissions among the highest in the world?
Yes. While Colorado ranks near the middle of U.S. states for carbon emissions per capita, it still produces…
Making peatlands a green economy in Ireland’s Midlands
Published on 05/01/2026 – 15:00 GMT+1 The Irish Midlands is a region defined by contradictions. Geographically, it is…
This Giant Inflatable Dome Is Actually a CO2 Battery Designed To Store Renewable Energy For a Full Day. Here’s How It Works
Credit: Energy Dome. On the Italian island of Sardinia, a strange, gleaming bubble rises from a patch of…
Scientists Find Ancient Air Bubbles in 1.4 Billion-Year-Old Salt Crystals
Researchers have found ancient gases and fluids trapped in 1.4-billion-year-old halite crystals from northern Ontario, Canada. Their analyses…
Coal as a raw material, an elemental game
Letters to the editor The challenge of coal as a raw material The article on coal as a…
Webb Detects Giant Clouds of Helium Leaking from WASP-107b
Using high-precision spectroscopic observations from the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…
This North Sea oil field is being repurposed to store millions of tonnes of CO2 beneath the seabed
By James Brooks with AP Published on 26/11/2025 – 11:54 GMT+1 Appearing first as a dot on the horizon, the remote…