Headline News:
- “From Wet Waste To Flight: Scientists Announce Fast-Track Solution For Net-Zero-Carbon Sustainable Aviation Fuel” • The aircraft sector has been seen as difficult to decarbonize. That task just got a burst of energy with the publication of a new paper on carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [CleanTechnica]
NREL laboratory (Dennis Schroeder, NREL)
- “A 5,000-Mile Living Wall Could Hold Back The World’s Largest Desert” • Because the Sahara Desert is expanding, the African Union launched an ambitious plan to hold it back and protect the Sahel area in 2007. The Great Green Wall initiative now hopes to restore 100 million hectares of land with a mosaic vegetation types over the next decade. [CNN]
- “Audi Gives Up On Combustion Engine Development – This Is Awesome” • Audi is abandoning its development of combustion engines, Electrive reported. The article cited an interview that CEO Markus Duesmann held with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in which he confirmed that Audi is no longer developing internal combustion engines. [CleanTechnica]
- “February’s Extreme Cold and Unusual Warming Highlights New ‘Climate Norms’, Say Experts” • NOAA confirmed that the Earth just had its coldest February in seven years, mainly due to the extremely cold temperatures in North America and northern Asia. What’s worrisome is that even so, it was the eighth warmest winter in the last 142 years. [The Weather Channel]
- “RI To Reach All-Renewable Electricity By 2030 Under Proposed Law” • A bill before the Rhode Island Senate would speed up the state’s transition to renewable electricity. Its announcement comes just one day after the Senate voted in favor of a bill that would step up the state’s carbon reduction effort, reaching net-zero by 2050. [Patch.com]
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