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Enzyme Discovery Could Lead to The Development of New Biofuels

U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has discovered a fundamental shift in an enzyme's function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant based oil products

8 Sep 2008

Pyrenees Glaciers To Disappear In Under 50 Years

Researchers from the University of Cantabria, the Autonomous University of Madrid and Valladolid have produced a summary on the current situation of the Pyrenees, Sierra Nevada and Picos de Europa. Scientists have based their work on how climate change has affected the glaciers since the so-called Little Ice Age (from 1300 to 1860) to conclude that only the Pyrenees has active glaciers left

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

GoingGreen Award For Flywheel Energy Company, Pentadyne

Pentadyne Power Corporation, the world leader in flywheel energy storage systems, has been named to the 2008 GoingGreen Top 100, which signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities in the green technology industries

8 Sep 2008

Biodiesel Shown to Runs Equal to, if not Better than Petroleum

Propel, a leading retailer of low-carbon renewable fuels and Seattle-based The Essential Baking Company, announce the results of a joint study on the impact of replacing petroleum fuel with biodiesel in the company’s delivery fleet

8 Sep 2008

Nano Sized Gold Works As A Catalyst Cleaning Up Poisonous Carbon Monoxide

For most of us, gold is only valuable if we possess it in large-sized pieces. However, the "bigger is better" rule isn't the case for those interested in exploiting gold's exceptional ability to catalyze a wide variety of chemical reactions, including the oxidation of poisonous carbon monoxide

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

Large Hadron Collider Will Not Destroy The World

A new report published on Friday, 5 September, provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)'s switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to mankind

8 Sep 2008

WWF Fails Performance of Australian Carbon Emitters

Some major Australian power generators are doing next to nothing to prepare for a low-carbon future, according to a new report from WWF-Australia

8 Sep 2008

Bosch Growing Green Technologies With New Research Facilities

The Bosch Group, a leading German global supplier of technology and services, establishes their Asia-Pacific regional headquarters for Research and Advance Engineering in Singapore

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

Framing Company Encouraging Americans to Fill Tires With Nitrogen to Reduce Fuel Consumption

While Congress is on vacation and presidential candidates debate energy strategy, an Ohio picture frame and fine art printing company -- American Frame Corporation -- is taking action to save employees gas and achieve better mileage

8 Sep 2008