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Green Steel

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SSAB in Sweden has become the world's first producer of fossil-free green steel created with green hydrogen instead of coal. The green steel was produced for Volvo who will use it to manufacture electric trucks.

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DIY CO2 Monitor

#277

Tony Vanpoucke published a handy walk through on instructables showing how to create a DIY CO2 monitor using an Arduino nano.

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IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their sixth assessment report that projects five climate emergency scenarios based on current and future global emissions. The report shows that a 1.5 degree temperature increase is already locked in, and can only be reduced in the future if we hit net zero emissions by 2025. If the planet reaches net zero emission just after 2030, we are guaranteed a 2+ degree increase until after 2050.

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Recycled Electronics Olympic Medals

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The medals presented at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are made from more than 78 thousand tons of recycled eletronics devices collected over two years by the people of Japan.

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Mushroom Markets

#272

Researchers at Rice Unievrsity have observed networks of fungi demostrate economic market principles of Walrusian equilibrium when they negotiate the exchange of carbon & nutrients with host organisms. Manipulating these interactions may allow the organisms to sequester even more carbon, on top of the 5 billion tonnes of carbon they already secure per year.

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LEGO Bricks From Plastic Bottles

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LEGO have developed a prototype material made from recycled PET plastic bottles that can use one recycled PET plastic bottle to produce ten 2 x 4 LEGO bricks.

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Passive Solar Still

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Engineers at ETH Zurich have developed a passive solar still that can extract 4.6ml of water from the air per day using a 10cm wide surface requiring no power.

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Ocean Microplastic Satellite Detection

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Researchers at University of Michigan have discovered a technique to detect the build-up of microplastics in the ocean by measuring ocean surface roughness using the Cyclone Global Navigational Satellite System (CYGNSS).

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Tricking Birds With Magic

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Researchers at Cambridge studied how well hand based magic tricks work on Eurasian Jays. The clever birds saw through two of the three magic tricks, possibly because the birds had no expectations around human hand mechanics.