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Environment 2026-03-13

Who bears the cost of mining the minerals for a green future?

Researchers propose 'just-shoring' as an alternative to current on-shoring, re-shoring, and friend-shoring strategies for critical minerals, arguing that without enforceable community governance rights, the clean energy transition risks replicating fossil fuel-era injustices.
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Science 2026-03-13

Separating two catalytic jobs triples methanol output from CO2

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics achieved a methanol space-time yield of 1.2 grams per gram of catalyst per hour from CO2 hydrogenation - roughly three times the output of conventional Cu/Zn/Al catalysts - by spatially separating active sites through a strong metal-support interaction overlayer.
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