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  • This work shows humidity-controlled hygroscopic deliquescence as an entropy increasing route for spontaneous lithium extraction from complex mining slags, enabling rapid, selective recovery in ambient conditions with scalable, low-energy potential.

    • Hongxu Chen
    • Meiqi Yang
    • Zhiyong Jason Ren
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    P: 1-12

  • National greenhouse gas inventories systematically undercount methane and nitrous oxide emissions from wastewater due to outdated methods and incomplete coverage. Addressing these discrepancies is essential to strengthen transparency in global climate efforts and improving the effectiveness of national mitigation strategies.

    • Cuihong Song
    • David Ponder
    • Zhiyong Jason Ren
    News & Views
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 16, P: 251-252

  • The wastewater sector is a major source of non-CO2 emissions, but accurate emissions accounting remains challenging, despite guidelines for basic inventories provided by the IPCC. This research reveals that national inventories widely omit key sources and apply inconsistent methods, which lead to greatly under-reported emissions.

    • Cuihong Song
    • David Ponder
    • Zhiyong Jason Ren
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 16, P: 313-321

  • The deactivation of CO2 reduction electrocatalyst in microbial media remains a key barrier for hybrid bio-electrochemical systems. Here, the authors present a bioadaptive nickel single atom catalyst that resists organic poisoning to enable high-rate CO-mediated isopropanol production from CO2.

    • Guangye Zhou
    • Jonathan R. Humphreys
    • Zhiyong Jason Ren
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 17, P: 1-11

  • Methane is an abundant energy source that is used for power generation in thermal power plants via combustion, but direct conversion to electricity in fuel cells remains challenging. Now, a microbial fuel cell is demonstrated to efficiently convert methane directly to current by careful selection of a consortium of microorganisms.

    • Zhiyong Jason Ren
    News & Views
    Nature Energy
    Volume: 2, P: 1-2

  • Extensive measurements of the emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia from wastewater treatment facilities in the USA present higher values than are currently stated in national inventories. The results of this analysis show that greenhouse gas and nitrogenous emissions from the wastewater sector are often overlooked and that their impact on climate should be reassessed.

    • Daniel P. Moore
    • Nathan P. Li
    • Mark A. Zondlo
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Water
    Volume: 3, P: 1114-1124

  • The microbial valorisation of greenhouse gases could offer promising approaches climate change mitigation. Here, authors demonstrate the coupling of methane oxidation and carbon dioxide reduction by microbial consortia, facilitated by the redox cycling of iron minerals.

    • Yue Zheng
    • Huan Wang
    • Feng Zhao
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-11

  • At present, methods to estimate nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from wastewater treatment have intrinsic limitations leading to large uncertainties and inaccuracies. Here the authors introduce a tier-based approach to enable more-precise estimation of wastewater N2O emissions.

    • Cuihong Song
    • Jun-Jie Zhu
    • Zhiyong Jason Ren
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 7, P: 1348-1358

  • Lithium mining is both energy and land intensive. The use of a 3D porous natural cellulose fibre structure enables an interfacial crystallization method for the selective extraction of lithium from both brine and seawater that can be a significant alternative to mining.

    • Xi Chen
    • Meiqi Yang
    • Zhiyong Jason Ren
    Research
    Nature Water
    Volume: 1, P: 808-817

  • Solar evaporation ponds are widely used in brine mining but face environmental and societal challenges. Advancing interfacial solar evaporation technology from lab discovery to field demonstration shows promise in improving pond efficiency and sustainability.

    • Sunxiang Zheng
    • Beatriz Oelckers
    • Zhiyong Jason Ren
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Water
    Volume: 3, P: 135-137

  • This Review offers a comprehensive global overview of greenhouse gas emissions in the wastewater sector, highlighting key gaps in emission quantification and mitigation. It explores current decarbonization strategies, emphasizes the complexity of emissions across all scopes, and advocates for tailored monitoring, holistic analysis and strong support from different stakeholders to drive effective mitigation and achieve net-zero emissions.

    • Cuihong Song
    • Jun-Jie Zhu
    • Zhiyong Jason Ren
    Reviews
    Nature Water
    Volume: 2, P: 927-935

  • The wastewater treatment industry contributes approximately 1.6% of greenhouse gas emissions. This Review analyses alternative wastewater treatment pathways for simultaneous CO2 capture and utilization and shows the multiple benefits of microbial electrochemical and phototrophic processes.

    • Lu Lu
    • Jeremy S. Guest
    • Zhiyong Jason Ren
    Reviews
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 1, P: 750-758