Flow battery advocates say their water-based technology needs a fraction of the metals used in lithium batteries and can store energy longer and without fire risk. But high costs could limit its role in renewable energy storage.

Anthony Taylor is an associate professor with the University of New Brunswick specializing in the relationship between forestry and climate. He demonstrated the link between tree diversity and carbon sequestration in a 2023 paper published in the journal Nature, comparing these two metrics on 406 sample plots across the country.

Individual sheets of fibreglass are notoriously difficult to recycle. This is a problem for the wind industry, whose turbine blades are essential hundred-metre-long, fibreglass tubes. Once they’ve served their 30-year-lifespans, unloading them on landfills is unpopular at best, banned (in some countries) at worst. Part of the solution has been the development of recyclable resins, more easily broken down by traditional solvents, and at lower temperatures and pressures.

Renewable energy is already well on the way. Now, researchers on the East Coast are turning their attention to increasingly complex energy storage solutions to empower wind, solar and geothermal to help it truly supplant fossil fuels.

The ocean crop boasts nearly nonexistent farm-to-table carbon emissions, but bureaucratic snags and lack of an established market have historically deterred young farmers.

Thirteen years after it was built, Middleton’s NSCC living lab home illustrates that passive building design is still the single most important factor in creating an efficient build or renovation.

As demand for charging stations increases with their fleets, Nova Scotia's municipalities are moving to expand their networks.

Transforming a concrete hotel from the 1960s provides climate-friendly housing in downtown Dartmouth.

The province’s municipalities are transitioning to EVs as quickly and smoothly as a challenging market will allow.

Sprout Dwellings manufactures only a few designs. But they chosen very carefully to do several things — hasten construction, maintain affordability, stay accessible to all demographics, emphasize locally sourced materials and perhaps most importantly, to use less power.