The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released what it describes as ‘the world’s first comprehensive study* of how to transition to a net zero energy system by 2050 while ensuring stable and affordable energy supplies, providing universal energy access, and enabling robust economic growth’.
Children can suffer an aggressive form of tooth decay from poor dental hygiene and eating lots of fermentable carbohydrates.
The Dutch government will provide subsidies of around €2bn to a consortium including Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil for what is set to become one of the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the world at the Port of Rotterdam.
All cereal crops – wheat, barley, rice and rye – are annual grasses. They need to be sown and harvested each year, which means regular tilling of the soil.
Last year saw the biggest boost to renewable energy capacity for 30 years, according to the IEA’s 2021 Market Update. And markets are set to continue to grow into 2022. Exceptionally high capacity additions will become the ‘new normal’ in 2021 and 2022, with renewables accounting for 90% of new power capacity expansion globally.
A US district judge in California has rejected Bayer’s $2bn proposal to settle potential future lawsuits alleging weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. Read more in C&I magazine.
Dwindling demand for animal-based products and growing interest in sustainability are driving innovation in leather alternatives, and now is the time to invest, according to new data from Lux Research: The Next Alternative: Leather. Read more in C&I Magazine.
A trial in California is to evaluate cannabis as a potential treatment for acute migraine. This will be the first such randomised, placebo controlled clinical trial, say the clinicians involved. The trial began earlier in 2021 and is continuing to recruit patients. Read the C&I Magazine article.
Researchers have discovered a new form of carbon which is atomically thin like graphene, but made up of an ordered lattice of squares, hexagons, and octagons rather than the hexagonal honeycomb structure of graphene (Science, doi: 10.1126/science.abg4509). Read the C&I article/