Seattle is known for progressive thinking when it comes to adopting environmentally friendly practices and cutting-edge clean technology, and its vehicle fleets are no different. Fleets in the Puget Sound area such as Sea-Tac’s MasterPark, the City of Edmonds and Seattle Children’s Hospital are part of a nationwide movement to use American-made propane autogas, which is both cleaner than gasoline and more affordable to implement than other alternative fuels.
Understanding Earth's paleo-hurricane record cannot be more timely and important in a light of Hurricane Sandy, which shocked the U.S. East Coast last week. Talks in this Wednesday afternoon session at the GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, integrate field, lab, and model analysis of past hurricanes and future scenarios, covering a wide range of temporal and spatial scales.
Global warming could cause frequent and severe failures of the Indian summer monsoon in the next two centuries, new research suggests.
Researchers have discovered why plants and animals had a hard time recovering from the largest mass extinction in Earth's history 250 million years ago.
In response to the devastation caused last week by Hurricane Sandy, organizers of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting technical sessions on rapid sea-level rise and its impacts have created a break-out discussion panel consisting of geoscience experts.
Countries are attempting to balance global warming with the continued use of fossil fuels, by developing clean coal technologies, states a new report by energy experts GlobalData.
The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest in the last 20 years, according to data from NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites. Scientists attribute the change to warmer temperatures in the Antarctic lower stratosphere.
By fundamentally altering its freight-shipping practices, Kyocera Communications Inc., a San Diego-based provider of wireless phones in the Americas and a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyocera International Inc., was able to prevent more than 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2011.
Ice-sheet retreat can halt temporarily during long phases of climate warming, according to scientists.
SunSi Energies, an international manufacturer, seller and distributor of energy products and solutions, today announced that it has expanded the project size of its previously announced letter of intent to install one of its proprietary, modular Organic Rankine Cycle systems ("ORC unit") at Zibo Qilin Fushan Iron & Steel Company ("Qilin"), a steel producing company located in the Shandong province of China.
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