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New Artificial Turf Without Microplastics Is Changing Sports Fields
Artificial turf, most commonly used on sports fields, children’s playgrounds, in parks, and for landscaping yards, is generally made from fossil-fuel-based plastics and often contains rubber or plastic infill. For this reason, the development of the first biopolymer artificial turf…
EU Deploys Record Number of Firefighters and Aircraft for Wildfire Season
The European Union will deploy its highest number of firefighters, aircraft, and emergency response experts this summer to ensure faster and more effective responses to wildfires, which are becoming increasingly frequent and destructive due to climate change. In high-risk areas…
Ember: Clean energy met all new electricity demand in 2025
According to the latest Global Electricity Review 2026 published by research organization Ember, the year 2025 marked a historic moment for the global energy sector. Record growth in solar power enabled clean energy sources to grow fast enough to meet all new…
NASA Turns Off Instrument on Spacecraft to Save Energy and Extend Mission
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shut down one of the scientific instruments on the Voyager 1 spacecraft in order to conserve energy and extend its operation in interstellar space. The instrument, Low-Energy Charged Particles experiment (LECP), measures low-energy…
ENTSO-E Publishes Final Report on the Causes of the Power Outage in Spain and Portugal
The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) has published the final report of the Expert Panel on the power outage of 28 April 2025 in continental Spain and Portugal. In addition to identifying the causes of this…
World’s largest fertiliser plant using green hydrogen to produce 260,000 tonnes annually
In Paraguay, the construction of the Villeta Green H₂ fertiliser plant, based on green hydrogen, is planned. Once completed, it will produce around 260,000 tonnes of low-carbon calcium ammonium nitrate per year. The green hydrogen used will be generated entirely…
Serbia’s energy plan: 1,500 MW of new capacity, gas-fired power plants, and the start of a nuclear program
Serbia’s energy sector is facing major changes and, according to Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović Handanović, the country could add around 1,500 MW of new state-owned electricity generation capacity by 2030, equivalent to about 20 percent of its…