Beyond their traditional use as green solvents, new applications have become available for ionic liquids (ILs) in drug delivery.
Cardiovascular causes have been estimated to be responsible for more than two thirds of the considerable mortality attributed to air pollution.
This articles highlights one of the winning proposals of the Elsevier Foundation Green & Sustainable Chemistry Challenge, “Butterfly attractant for pollination and ecosystem health.” The project, which combines ecology and chemistry, involved field observations and lab-based experiments to protect biodiversity in the Western Ghats of India by increasing butterfly pollination, contributing to SDGs 13, 15 and 17.
Global warming and the acute domestic air pollution in China have necessitated transition to a sustainable energy system away from coal-dominated energy production.
There is a wide array of biomass utilisation pathways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
The IUCN (the International Union for Conservation of Nature) World Conservation Congress called for the full protection of 30% of each marine habitat globally and at least 30% of all the ocean.
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the most important greenhouse gas produced by agricultural soils and is a byproduct of microbial nitrification and denitrification processes.
Improvements in the effectiveness of packaging materials can help to prevent foodborne pathogens and reduce environmental waste.
Driven by current climate discussions, the search for alternatives to animal proteins has been intensified in recent years.
The Paris Agreement to keep global temperature increase to well-below 2 °C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 °C requires to formulate ambitious climate-change mitigation scenarios to reduce
