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Fishing For Energy Project Takes Abandoned Fishing Equipment and Turns It Into Electricity

“Fishing for Energy,” an innovative partnership to recycle fishing equipment into energy, has expanded to Newport, Rhode Island

8 Sep 2008

New Software Package Determines the Cheapest, Fastest or Most Environmentally Method of Transportation

A new software package determines the cheapest, fastest or most environmentally compatible mode of transportation

8 Sep 2008

Ammonia Recovery Facility to be Built in New York City

ThermoEnergy Corporation today announced the signing of a formal agreement with Earth Tech, Inc., part of AECOM one of the worlds largest environmental and infrastructure engineering companies, to act as Construction Manager as well as perform the civil engineering work for the Company's multi-million dollar Ammonia Recovery Process

8 Sep 2008

Managing Forests as Carbon Storage Solutions to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Scientists who have determined how much carbon is stored annually in upper Midwest forests hope their findings will be used to accelerate global discussion about the strategy of managing forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions

8 Sep 2008

Does Air Pollution Increase Rainfall

An international team of scientists, headed by Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has come up with a surprising finding to the disputed issue of whether air pollution increases or decreases rainfall

8 Sep 2008

Living Sensor Found That Can Warn of Arsenic Pollution

Scientists studying arsenic pollution have discovered a living sensor that can spot contamination

8 Sep 2008

Experts Meet to Discuss Rules for Managing Fragile Polar Regions

Need for better international approach to control polar activities on agenda in Iceland

8 Sep 2008

Understanding the Connection Between Climate Change and Aerosols

A group of scientists affiliated with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) have proposed a new framework to account more accurately for the effects of aerosols on precipitation in climate models

8 Sep 2008

China to Face Decades of Flooding and Power Shortages After Earthquake

Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the massive Sichuan Basin over the next few decades and possibly centuries

8 Sep 2008

US EPA Moves to Clean Up Emissions From Nonroad Gas Engines

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today took action to cut pollution from a major source of summertime smog and to protect human health by finalizing clean air standards for nonroad gasoline engines

8 Sep 2008