Concrete’s massive carbon footprint has fueled a slew of unusual material innovations, but only some of them will have the kind of impact needed to curb CO2 emissions. The concrete industry is having ...

Dublin, Sept. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "China Low-Carbon Concrete and Cement Alternatives Market Opportunity, Growth Drivers, Industry Trend Analysis, and Forecast 2025-2034" report has been ...

Fortera bolts on their tech to existing cement plants to create a greener product. Here's why it caught Microsoft's eye.

The designers mimicked the structures in certain bones to increase the surface area of the bridge, which also increased the ...

As pedestrians head down Halsted Street in the Fulton Market district, a spiral structure in the middle of the Mews Pedway invites them to walk toward its center. At a glance, the coil seems to have ...

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The billions of tons of cement made each year have an enormous carbon footprint: 8% of global emissions, or four times more than the airline industry. That’s both because of the energy used to make ...

One of the latest research developments to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete comes out of the University of Saskatchewan's College of Engineering, which is testing plant-based biochar to ...

There is no shortage of low-carbon and carbon-capturing concrete alternatives in the works, but MIT spinout Sublime Systems is particularly interesting, since it takes a novel electrochemical approach ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have developed a new CO2-absorbing material that’s a low-cost alternative to concrete. Cement production is one of the largest contributors to climate ...

Companies are finding more environmentally friendly ways to make cement, which accounts for about a twelfth of global carbon dioxide emissions, making it worse for the climate than flying. Now they ...