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EcoFABs could lead to better bioenergy crops, say researchers

Envirotec Magazine

In a new paper in Science Advances , they show how these takeout box–sized, plastic growth chambers could potentially provide scientists with a standardized and reproducible platform for conducting experiments on model plants and the microbes that live around their roots. “At

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Floating house concept earns students place in global disaster preparedness competition

Envirotec Magazine

A team of students from Coventry University have developed a concept for a house that can float whenever a flood approaches and shelter people for at least six weeks during catastrophic weather. The competition saw 37 team submissions from 16 countries on six different continents, representing 21 business schools.

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The world-changing potential of STEAM-powered youth

GreenBiz

Research shows that having a diverse workforce not only drives innovation and market growth , but also underscores the significant risks of perpetuating inequities when people of color are left out of creating the products and services we all use. . I absolutely love the robots. . We need people to design robots that clean up oil spills.

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Study shows power plants can recycle water using wastewater from oil and gas mining

Envirotec Magazine

Although the sample sizes are small, systems analysis aims to show stakeholders, like power plant operators, what to expect when cotreatment happens at a much larger scale (image credit: WVU Photo/Paige Nesbit). According to lead author Hunter Barber, a doctoral student in chemical engineering at WVU, no other industry in the U.S.

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Researchers propose new structures to harvest freshwater from ocean surface

Envirotec Magazine

Illustration showing the proposed approach for capturing moisture above ocean surfaces and transporting it to land for condensation (image credit: Praveen Kumar and Scientific Reports). Kumar, graduate student Afeefa Rahman and atmospheric sciences professor Francina Dominguez published their findings in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.

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Microgravity experiments could help future space missions find water

Envirotec Magazine

New research on generating oxygen from water found on the surfaces of other planets could help support future long-term missions to the Moon and Mars. As the plane arced through microgravity, they were able to recreate the lower gravitational conditions of the Moon by spinning the centrifuge at different speeds.

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Is your environmentalism intersectional? It should be

GreenBiz

But we’ve been focusing our efforts on a couple of different pillars that are really central to IE as a business. And we have a website as well that aggregates a lot of educational resources that look at different topics and look at different communities for people who are interested in learning more about intersectional environmentalism.

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