Low temperature district heating: New plants for eight European cities
Eurac Research is leading a €15 million European project that will build innovative district heating networks and study business models ...
Tag: Urbanization
Toll roads are good for the environment, Russian scientists confirm
Researchers developed a method to calculate the number of stops trucks make along their routes; the method confirms that toll ...
UTA investigating best ways to protect coastal communities from rising sea levels
New strategies to ease coastal floodingCredit: UT Arlington As sea levels rise worldwide, coastal areas of the United States are ...
Urbanisation costs Edinburgh over 11 hectares of green land each year
Much of vegetation loss is due to private gardens being paved over or built onCredit: CEH Edinburgh is losing the ...
How bike sharing in Seattle rose from the ashes of Pronto’s failure
Credit: Peters and MacKenzie/Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice In October 2014, Seattle launched Pronto, a docked bike-share program. ...
NUS SDE4 receives international recognition for building designed to improve health and wellness
The state-of-the-art net-zero energy building is the first university building in the world to be WELL Certified™ Gold, and the ...
Teams of mobile 3D printing robots could fix bridges on Earth and build them to Mars
Credit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - Commercial 3D printing -- or additive manufacturing (AM) -- ...
UTA testing method to build temperature, heat-flux sensors for hypersonic vehicles
Reliable sensors for hypersonic flightCredit: UT Arlington Harsh environmental conditions--such as surface temperatures reaching thousands of degrees Fahrenheit--make it challenging ...
Big cities breed partners in crime
New model shows it is easier to find partners in high populationCredit: Rafael de Nadai EVANSTON, Ill. -- Your intuition ...
CPS Energy supports clean energy and grid cybersecurity research at UTSA
Credit: UTSA Beginning in the Fall of 2019, faculty members at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will ...
Researchers suggest cultural outreach prevents social exclusion
Credit: Kai Lehikoinen Even though the majority of the Finnish youth are thriving, some of them are wrestling with a ...
Study: Americans would rather drive themselves than have an autonomous vehicle drive them
Credit: Gao et al./Transportation Many Americans use a ride-hailing service -- like Uber or Lyft -- to get to and ...
Reduce, reuse, recycle: The future of phosphorus
Credit: Included in photo When Hennig Brandt discovered the element phosphorus in 1669, it was a mistake. He was really ...
100 days, 100 nights: Sensor network reveals telltale patterns in neighborhood air quality
Berkeley Lab deploys custom-built sensors for 100 days and nights to track black carbon pollutionCredit: Berkeley Lab Black carbon, commonly ...
The rush to air conditioning in Europe pushed by urbanization and climate change
A new study published in Environmental Science and Policy shows that without adequate and focused policies, many households will rely ...
Seeking sustainable solutions for Nashville’s organic wastes
University of Tennessee collaborates with Resource Capture on $40,000 grantCredit: Tennessee Dept. of Tourist Development KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - An interdisciplinary ...
Shared e-cargo bikes: boom and barriers in Basel
Sustainable means of mobility are becoming ever more popular. In Switzerland, around 15,000 people have registered with the online platform ...
CDC’s Dr. Pat Breysse to deliver keynote address at Legionella Conference 2019
Legionella Conference hosted by NSF International and NEHA brings together international experts to explore the relationship between water conservation and ...
Portland State study shows ways to reduce extreme heat in city neighborhoods
Credit: Portland State University Portland State study demonstrates how plants, trees and reflective materials can reduce extreme heat in city ...
Thought experiment: Switzerland without fossil fuels. Can that succeed?
How do we transform our energy system sustainably? If we want to get rid of fossil fuels nationwide, there is ...
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