Indoor air quality in modern buildings is increasingly difficult to maintain without high energy costs, and while vertical green walls offer a natural solution, their inconsistent performance and complex maintenance have limited widespread use. VertINGreen, developed by researchers, solves this by using AI, remote sensing, and plant data to both predict how green walls will perform before installation and monitor their health in real time, making them a reliable, efficient, and scalable tool for improving air quality and reducing energy consumption.

New research by MIT Sloan School of Management finds that global leaders who participate in facilitated engagements using an interactive climate policy simulator, En-ROADS, demonstrated a stronger understanding of climate solutions, felt more personally connected to the issue, and were more likely to take climate-related action or advocate for change in their governments, businesses, organizations, or communities.

The Shanghai International Communication of Chinese Culture Initiative is a joint international event hosted by ECNU Review of Education (ROE) and the Global Education Deans Forum (GEDF). The 2025 edition of this initiative was particularly notable for the Faculty of Education at East China Normal University, whose research on the new college entrance examination reform, inclusive education, and innovation-driven talent cultivation was selected to be presented at the event.

Researchers at the University of Graz unveil that carbon dioxide removal capacities must be shared fairly between countries, just like emissions budgets, if the world is to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target in the long term. Their study warns that weak climate policy and limited CO₂ removal capacity will create major injustices between countries. Julia Danzer and Gottfried Kirchengast estimate that the sustainable long-term capacity for annual CO₂ removal is less than 10% of today’s annual greenhouse gas emissions, making removal a scarce resource. They have developed a "computer game model" to explore different scenarios of fair and unfair allocation of removal rights across countries, finding that unfair control of some countries over CO₂ removal would exacerbate global inequalities. 

Rivers do not just move water; they act as nature's hard drives, saving a permanent record of what happens on the surface. When toxic chemicals settle into the mud at the riverbed, they create a chronological diary of human activity. Recently, a detailed investigation published in Carbon Research has opened up one of these geological diaries in Mongolia’s Orkhon River Basin, revealing exactly how economic booms and traffic jams translate into chemical fallout.

The detective work was spearheaded by corresponding author Jing Chen from Beijing Normal University. Drawing on the analytical power of the State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control and the Center for Atmospheric Environmental Studies, Chen's team extracted sediment cores to trace the history of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)—a notoriously stubborn class of toxic pollutants created by burning fuel and organic matter.