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Beach Vacations May Increase Skin Cancer Risk for Children

Vacationing at the shore led to a 5 percent increase in moles among 7-year-old children, according to a paper published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

3 Feb 2009

BASF Research Units Increasing Production Efficiency and Sustainability

BASF's research units are its pulsating lifelines. The worldwide Verbund of creative thinkers is constantly producing new ideas and projects, driving forward the company even in economically difficult times

2 Feb 2009

There's Gold In The Toilet as Japan Mines Gold From Human Sewage

Yomiuri and Nagano Nippo are reporting that a sewage plant in Japan's Nagano prefecture has started mining gold from sewage sludge

2 Feb 2009

Nansulate Thermal Insulation Being Incorporated into Solar Panels and Solar Hot Water Systems

Industrial Nanotech announced today that the Company's patented Nansulate protective thermal insulation coatings are now incorporated into solar hot water heater and solar panel systems

2 Feb 2009

PGI Increases Corporate Sustainability Program

PGI has announced it is strengthening its corporate sustainability program with a focused and expanded initiative in this area led by the company's first chief sustainability officer

2 Feb 2009

BioEnergy Plants in Rural India to Tackle Energy Poverty

Aston University and the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi have secured a grant to build bio-energy power plants, which will tackle energy poverty in rural India and promote renewable energy in the United Kingdom

2 Feb 2009

U.S. Secret Plan to Increase Whaling

Documents released today by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) confirm the United States' leadership in negotiations to undo the global moratorium on commercial whaling and extend unprecedented authorization to the Government of Japan to kill whales off its coastline and in international waters

2 Feb 2009

New U of T Technique For Cleaning Contaminated Groundwater

Cleaning up the dangerous contaminants - dry-cleaning fluids, solvents and petroleum hydrocarbons - found in underground water presents one of the most urgent challenges facing environmental science

1 Feb 2009

Ocean islands fuel productivity and carbon sequestration through natural iron fertilization

An experiment to study the effects of naturally deposited iron in the Southern Ocean has filled in a key piece of the puzzle surrounding iron's role in locking atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ocean

1 Feb 2009

Nanotechnology Being Used to Remove Arsenic from Contaminated Water

U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory and Water Technology Group Inc, have signed a licensing agreement to commercialize the Nano-Composite Arsenic Sorbent (N-CAS) that will improve the ability to remove arsenic from contaminated water supplies

1 Feb 2009