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Temperature Increase in Central China Greater than Previously Thought

Temperatures in central China are 10 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit hotter today than they were 20,000 years ago, during the last ice age, UCLA researchers report — an increase two to four times greater than many scientists previously thought.

15 May 2013

Restricting Greenhouse Warming May Help Reduce Decline of Tropical Coral Reef Habitats

Limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world's oceans in the future could buy some time for tropical coral reefs, say researchers from the University of Bristol.

15 May 2013

Interdisciplinary Studies at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve May Help Conserve the Planet

The Stanford campus is peppered with laboratories conducting bleeding-edge research. It is home to some of the world's finest advanced robotics and nanotechnology labs, filled with scientists busily working to create a future filled with autonomous cars, ultra-efficient solar technology and new treatments for the most debilitating neurological diseases. There's even a particle accelerator.

15 May 2013

Methes Energies Canada to Purchase Biodiesel Processor from BioFuel Aruba

Methes Energies International Ltd., a renewable energy company that offers an array of products and services to biodiesel fuel producers, announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Methes Energies Canada Inc., has signed a Purchase and Cooperation Agreement with BioFuel Aruba of Oranjestad, Aruba, to initially purchase one Denami 600 biodiesel processor.

14 May 2013

Michigan Energy Office Awards GVSU-MAREC $44,000 Grant to Study Solar Thermal Systems

Grand Valley State University's Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center received a grant from the Michigan Energy Office to study solar thermal system costs and efficiency improvements for use in Michigan's climate.

14 May 2013

Novel Device Cuts Emissions from Lawnmowers

Inspired by two of their fathers, who work cutting lawns and driving a truck, a team of University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering students have created a device that attaches to a lawnmower and significantly cuts its harmful emissions.

14 May 2013

Online Game to Better Understand Sources of Global Warming Gases

Climate science researchers from Arizona State University are launching a first-of-its kind online "game" to better understand the sources of global warming gases. By engaging "citizen scientists," the researchers hope to locate all the power plants around the world and quantify their carbon dioxide emissions (CO2).

14 May 2013

Construction and Demolition Waste Being Tested as Fuel for Cement Plants

Researchers at Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy are working with Lafarge Canada to test using low carbon fuels including construction and demolition waste, asphalt shingles, utility poles and railway ties, to help power cement plants.

14 May 2013

Asia-Pacific Smart Grids Market Estimated to Reach $15.83 Billion in 2018

The smart grids market in Asia-Pacific got a huge boost from the roll-outs of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in Australasia and Smart City projects in North Asia.

13 May 2013

Air Products Announces Successful Demonstration of DOE’s Carbon Capture Project

Air Products today celebrated the successful operation of a United States Department of Energy (DOE) Demonstration Project that will capture approximately one million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in an enhanced oil recovery project in which DOE anticipates an additional estimated 1.6-3.1 million barrels of oil to be produced annually from the CO2 injection.

13 May 2013

All Earth Renewables Utilizes Renesola Modules for Vermont Solar Power Projects

ReneSola Ltd, a leading global manufacturer of solar photovoltaic ("PV") modules and wafers, today announced it provided modules for use in three community-scale solar power projects in Vermont in the last few months.

13 May 2013

Penn State Associate Professor to Participate in Meeting on Sustainability and Biodiversity Conservation in the Tropics

Sustainability research, which examines the complex interactions between humans and the rest of nature, has the potential to bring economic and social benefits to the developing world and tropical countries such as Costa Rica. However, sustainability research in the tropics has been slow to develop.

13 May 2013

NPL’s Centre for Carbon Measurement Unveiled as Verification Body of EU Environmental Technology Verification Pilot Programme

The Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has been unveiled as one of the first verification bodies of the EU Environmental Technology Verification Pilot Programme (ETV) with specific remit for the independent verification of Energy Technologies under the scheme.

13 May 2013

Lotte Chemical Places Follow-on Orders for ZBB Flow Batteries and Power and Control Center

ZBB Energy Corporation, a leading developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms and hybrid vehicle control systems, announced today that it has received two follow-on orders from Lotte Chemical in South Korea, for a ZBB EnerSystem™ consisting of five ZBB EnerStore™ flow batteries, totaling 250 kWh, and a ZBB EnerSection™ power and control center that connects the flow batteries and PV solar arrays to the AC grid via a 125 kW grid-tie inverter.

10 May 2013

Natural Seepage of Shale Gas may Contribute to Increase in Greenhouse Gas Concentrations

"Eternal flames" fueled by hydrocarbon gas could shine a light on the presence of natural gas in underground rock layers and conditions that let it seep to the surface, according to research by geologists at the Department of Geological Sciences and the Indiana Geological Survey at Indiana University Bloomington.

10 May 2013