Pointed wings together with carrying less weight per wing area and avoidance of high winds and atmospheric turbulence save a bird loads of energy during migration. This has been shown for the first time in free-flying wild birds by researchers at Princeton University, the University of Montana, and the German Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.
Consulting and engineering firm Mazzetti + Associates, two-time winner of the Champions for Change Award from Hospitals for a Healthy Environment, announced today the advent of a climate change consulting practice.
In an essay in the journal ChemSusChem, Fritz Scholz and Ulrich Hasse from the University of Greifswald introduce a possible approach to a solution: deliberately planted forests bind the CO2 through photosynthesis and are then removed from the global CO2 cycle by burial. "For the first time, humankind will give something back to nature that we have taken away before," says Scholz.
A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet's crust to become locked in place.
The AES Corporation today announced the acquisition of a landfill gas to renewable energy project in Nejapa, El Salvador that is projected to generate an average of 400,000 Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) annually over the next 20 years.
Akeena Solar, Inc., a leading designer and installer of solar power systems, and Sun Run, the nation's first provider of residential solar service, today announced their partnership to provide homeowners with Akeena's innovative Andalay solar power system and Sun Run's pioneering solar service.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander told an Oak Ridge National Laboratory audience the nation needs to embark on a five-year 21st century Manhattan Project toward national clean energy independence.
Carbon market participants from around the world today listened to a panel of five U.S. experts discuss climate change policy during a Carbon Market Expo Roundtable in Cologne, Germany.
Ward's AutoWorld reports in its May cover story that auto makers fear California's attempts to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions will decimate their product lineups and severely cripple sales of pickups and SUVs in the state, the nation's largest vehicle market.
The Tibetan Plateau's vast reserves of glacial freshwater, which supply Asia's most populous regions, are both at risk and are emerging as an issue in the increasingly tense political and cultural strife between China and Tibet, scientists and experts say, according to a new report by Circle of Blue published today.
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