Global electricity reached a record high in 2023 of 29,471 terawatt-hours (TWh), largely due to electric vehicles, heat pumps, electrolyzers, air conditioning, and data centers. The 627 TWh increase ...

According to American Rare Earths, the company’s wholly-owned deposits have a potential volume far greater than China’s estimated 44 million metric tons of the minerals, which could establish the US ...

“The sand transformation of China’s territory is furthered by decades of deforestation,” Marijn Nieuwenhuis, assistant professor at Durham University, said in an article called “The Geopolitics of ...

According to ESA’s space debris environment model MASTER (Meteoroid and Space Debris Terrestrial Environment Reference), there were 54,000 space debris objects greater than 10 cm (4 in), 1.2 million ...

In many parts of the world, fields are filled with grazing animals—but few trees or crops. Now a different approach—silvopasture or the intentional practice of combining trees, livestock, and forage ...

In 2024, total data “created, captured, copied, and consumed” was around 150 Zettabytes (10^18 bytes or 1 billion terabytes) and global mobile data traffic was around 125 Exabytes (10^15 bytes or 1 ...

A forecasted 2.182 million tons of bioplastics were produced in 2023, of which 1.136 million tons (52%) were biodegradable and 1.047 million tons (48%) were not. However, the actual amount utilized in ...

According to a white paper from the market research firm, DNV, the primary challenge facing the maritime industry is its inability to easily electrify propulsion. In deep-sea shipping, “batteries ...

The use of sun-dried sea salt sourced from Korea Bay, carefully packed into hand-selected three-year-old bamboo stalks, is just the beginning. These stalks are then sealed with mountain clay, creating ...

Although there will always be people seeking out brand-new goods for the latest fashion trend or hot technology, there are many reasons to consider buying used. The old axiom that beauty (or ...

Southern England is home to unique freshwater ecosystems known as chalk streams. The name is derived from the rivers’ unusual chalk bedrock, formed during the Cretaceous period. Teeming with flora and ...

According to USA Facts, which relies on government statistics, over the last 40 years, the number of natural disasters in the US that cost over $1 billion has increased. In the 1980s, the US averaged ...