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Last month, the two regions were warned about missing energy intensity reduction targets.

This blog originally appeared on ChinaDialogue and is part of the Turning the Tide on Plastic Waste in Asia project that is led by the China

Smog, water pollution, deforestation and desertification—for decades, citizen activists and protestors have attempted to fight the environmental

Credit: UPV/EHU The consumption of raw materials has increased notably in industry in general, and in the construction industry in particular, amidst growing concerns over sustainability issues. Concrete and mortar are the most commonly used materials in construction, and many studies are currently under way to try and reduce the harmful effects of their manufacture. Concrete and mortar are made by mixing water, sand, cement and aggregates. "The main problem is the amount of cement used to prod...

Aleksandar Stevanovic of the University of Pittsburgh received a Fulbright Specialist Program award. Dr. Stevanovic, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in Pitts Swanson School of Engineering, will complete a project at the University of Kragujevac in Serbia.

Credit: Michigan State University High-speed internet access has gone from an amenity to a necessity for working and learning from home, and the COVID-19 pandemic has more clearly revealed the disadvantages for American households that lack a broadband connection. To tackle this problem, Michigan State University researchers have developed a new tool to smooth the collection of federal broadband access data that helps pinpoint coverage gaps across the U.S. The research was published May 26 In t...

In June 1969, the Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan served as a critical tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. Each June,

Shanghai-based company Hinos used a photo of the surviving runners to promote its quick-drying underwear.

 E-Mail IMAGE: The view of Te Kaiwhakatere o te Raki looking outward across the Ross Ice Shelf. view more  Credit: © A short scan of Māori journeys to Antarctica / Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand Indigenous Māori people may have set eyes on Antarctic waters and perhaps the continent as early as the 7th century, new research published in the peer-reviewed Over the last 200 years, narratives about the Antarctic have been of those carried out by predominantly European m...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Aggelos Tsaligopoulos from the University of the Aegean will describe how quiet could be measured in the hopes of better understanding its impact on people. The session, "Towards a new... view more  Credit: Aggelos Tsaligopoulos MELVILLE, N.Y., June 9, 2021 -- The world is filled with myriad sounds that can overwhelm a person with relentless acoustics. Noise is so prevalent in everyday life that the concept and achievement of comfortable quiet is hard to define. During...