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Environmental Changes Being Indicated By River Delta Sediment Clues

Sediments released by many of the world's largest river deltas to the global oceans have been changed drastically in the last 50 years, largely as a result of human activity

11 May 2009

Island Ecosystems Need Protection From Climate Change

Rare and unique ecological communities will be lost if oceanic islands aren't adequately considered in a global conservation plan, a new study has found

11 May 2009

Environmental and Health Groups Praise Bill to Find Climate Change and Public Health Preparedness

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Trust for America's Health (TFAH), and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) praised legislation introduced late yesterday to improve the public health response to climate change

11 May 2009

Maximum Efficiency Comes From Bioelectricity Not Ethanol For Powering Vehicles

How can we maximize our "miles per acre" from biomass? Researchers writing in the online edition of the May 7 Science magazine say the best bet is to convert the biomass to electricity, rather than ethanol

10 May 2009

DuPont Working With Obama Administration on Biofuels

DuPont says they look forward to working with the EPA, DOE, USDA, and other stakeholders to further develop a sustainable biofuels industry that fuels America while helping us combat climate change

6 May 2009

Plankton Blooms Do Not Take Carbon From The Atmosphere and Store it in The Deep Ocean

Oceanographers have measured the fate of carbon particles originating in plankton blooms in the Southern Ocean. Their study reveals that most of the carbon from lush plankton blooms never reaches the deep ocean

6 May 2009

More Science Needed For Renewable Fuel Standard

The UIC Energy Resources Center team has conducted several scientific studies on land use effects for corn ethanol and the results of that work lead us to conclude that the consideration of indirect land use effects today would be premature

6 May 2009

Public Awareness Campaign to Save Rainforests Launched by The Prince of Wales

The Prince of Wales will use the power of digital media today to launch the public awareness campaign of his Prince's Rainforests Project

6 May 2009

Senior EPA Official Speaks At DuPont Seminar

DuPont Automotive invited U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Deputy Director Christopher Grundler, of EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, to speak at a recent seminar. Grundler reviewed recent policy changes from the new Obama administration and updated industry leaders on EPA regulatory activities

5 May 2009

Combustion Science to be Studied at Princeton University Energy Frontier Research Centers

Princeton University will be home to a new $20 million energy research center for combustion science, as part of a federal initiative to spur discoveries that lay the groundwork for an economy based on clean replacements for fossil fuels

5 May 2009