Eutrophication and chlorophyll-rich algal blooms occurred at high concentrations of the thermoplastic polyurethane, but only occasionally with bioplastics, suggests a three-month experiment exposing p...

In the Catalan Pyrenees, managing forest growth and balancing tourism and agriculture are key strategies for meeting local needs, according to a network analysis with social, economic, and environment...

Geodiversity is a multidimensional concept—aggregative, evaluative, spatio-temporal, and functional—defined by dynamic interactions with the biosphere and anthroposphere, and essential for advancing s...

Clean technology is needed to meet India’s demand for food and fuel without compromising environmental and human health. Green ammonia production could help to boost low-carbon fuel and nitrogen ferti...

In the river Rhine, almost 70% of litter particles above 1 cm in diameter are plastics, most of which come from single-use items, often from private consumers, but they comprise less than 15% of all litter by weight, according to continuous monitoring over 16 months with a custom-made physical-interception litter trap.

Successful solutions for a more sustainable world will only become broadly acceptable through vigorous and transparent debate across diverse perspectives. We are launching Communications Sustainabilit...

Communications Sustainability is an open-access journal from Nature Portfolio that publishes high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all ...

Upfront and lifetime costs often prevent EV adoption. Vaishnav and colleagues find that using EV batteries to shift the time of electricity purchases for other household uses can cut both owners’ electricity costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Methane pyrolysis produces hydrogen and carbon materials, but some approaches based on chemical vapour deposition actually consume hydrogen to mitigate unwanted side reactions. Here Peden et al. use gas recycling in a multi-pass floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition reactor to produce hydrogen alongside carbon nanotube aerogels.

The co-production of carbon nanotubes and hydrogen from methane is achieved by recycling process gas in a continuous flow reactor. Developed from a single-pass reactor for carbon nanotube production, the multi-pass reactor offers efficiency improvements and the net production of hydrogen as an output value stream.

By optimizing the timing of electricity purchases for electric vehicle (EV) charging at home, as well as shifting electricity purchases for other household loads, US EV owners could reduce their lifetime charging costs by 40–90%, and lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from household electricity use by 70–250%. Integrating EVs with homes can increase the greenhouse gas reductions they deliver, while reducing the cost of EV ownership.

New research finds that policymakers coleading energy scenario design has the potential both to better align scenarios with policymakers’ priorities and to question current policy, by substantially reducing energy use at half of the cost of technology-focused approaches.

npj Sustainable Agriculture - Sustainable soil management practices are associated with increases in crop defense through soil microbiome changes