Composite decking can capture carbon dioxide
Could our choice of patio decking help reduce the global warming effects of building materials?
Enzymes make dyeing denim more sustainable
Can researchers find a way to make jeans blue without using toxic chemicals?
Revealing blueberries’ nanostructure
Find out how microscopic, self-assembling particles give blueberries their characteristic blue hue
Using polluting red mud for greener metal production
Transforming toxic mud into iron in a breakthrough for steelmaking sustainability
High levels of nanoplastics found in bottled water
Unbottle the truth of what’s inside your drinking water
Tropical birds bear brunt of gold mining impact
Birds pay the environmental price for metal extraction
Nanoparticles answer an alchemical mystery
Gold nanoparticles explain the mystery of why fulminating gold explodes with a purple plume of smoke
Making ammonia production greener
Could lasers offer a more sustainable alternative to the Haber process
Scientists discover the heaviest oxygen isotope
Help learners delve into atomic structure and isotopes with this research contextÂ
Tackling global demand for lithium one string at a time
Crystalising lithium salts on strings could be the key to supplying the vast volume needed for a net-zero world
The effect of human leisure on water pollution
From cocaine to antihistamines, the surprising mix of chemicals detected after a day out at the river
From sulfur dioxide to atmospheric oxygen
Early Earth’s oxygen surge could be partly thanks to volcanic sulfur dioxide
