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Illinois Residents Value Efforts to Reduce Watershed Pollution

Illinois residents value efforts to reduce watershed pollution, and they are willing to pay for environmental improvements, according to a new study from agricultural economists at the University of Illinois.

15 Jan 2021

New Review Reduces Uncertainty in Forest Carbon Storage Calculations

Investors who bet on tropical forest conservation and reforestation to solve global warming by storing carbon in wood face huge uncertainties because the science behind predicting carbon stocks is still shaky.

15 Jan 2021

600-Year-Old Marine Sponge Holds Record of Past Ocean Temperatures

Scientists used a 600-year-old marine sponge to reconstruct a record of ocean temperature in the North Atlantic revealing past volcanic activity as well as the current global warming trend from the release of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gasses into Earth's atmosphere and absorbed by the oceans.

15 Jan 2021

New Classification Reveals Differential Conservation Approaches Across Ecosystems

A new study co-authored by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Global Conservation Program and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry introduces a classification called Resistance-Resilience-Transformation that enables the assessment of whether and to what extent a management shift toward transformative action is occurring in conservation.

15 Jan 2021

Climate Change has Taken a Toll on Insects in the Tropics

In a normal year, biologists Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs spend about six months in Costa Rica, where they conduct research and pursue conservation efforts in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), a World Heritage Site in the northwest that encompasses, a network of parks and preserves they helped establish in the 1980s and that has grown to more than 400,000 acres, including marine, dry forest, cloud forest, and rain forest environments.

15 Jan 2021

DuPont Clean Technologies to Develop Scrubbing Project with BELCO® Technology to Control the Emissions of Empresa Nacional de Petróleo (ENAP)

Chilean oil refiner ENAP Refinerías S.A. has selected BELCO® scrubbing technology, licensed by DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont), to improve emissions control from its 31,449 BPSD fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit at the Aconcagua refinery.

From Elessent Clean Technologies Inc. 15 Jan 2021

Microbes in Meltwater Stream Sediment Responsible for Greenland Melting

According to Rutgers researchers, bacteria are the reason behind greater melting on the Greenland ice sheet, probably increasing the contribution of the island to sea-level rise.

15 Jan 2021

Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council Welcomes Opening of ScotWind Leasing Application Window

Crown Estate Scotland has today officially opened the application window for ScotWind Leasing, the new offshore wind leasing round for Scottish waters, paving the way for developers to apply for the rights to build Scotland’s next generation of offshore wind farms.

15 Jan 2021

Shearwater Energy Selects NuScale Power’s Small Modular Technology for SMR Wind-hybrid Energy Project

Shearwater Energy Ltd., a United Kingdom-based hybrid clean energy company, is developing a wind-SMR (Small Modular Reactor) and hydrogen production hybrid energy project in North Wales.

From NuScale Power 15 Jan 2021

Moray East Announces Installation of First Turbine

Moray East has announced the successful milestone of its first turbine installation, issuing photos of the first of 100 9.5 MW turbines in the Moray Firth.

15 Jan 2021

Dastur Selected to Design and Evaluate Techno-Economic Feasibility of India’s Largest Carbon Capture and Utilization Project at IOCL’s Flagship Koyali Refinery

Ridgewood, NJ based Dastur International, Inc., along with its Austin, TX based affiliate Dastur Energy Inc. and M. N. Dastur & Co (P) Ltd. (Dastur); Houston, TX based Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions (Air Liquide); and the Austin, TX based Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at the University of Texas at Austin, have been selected to carry out the design and feasibility for India’s largest industrial carbon capture and utilization (CCUS) project at the 13.7 million tons per annum (mtpa) Koyali refinery of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL). Dastur is the prime contractor and will lead the project.

From Dastur & Company (P) Ltd. 15 Jan 2021

Russelectric, A Siemens Business, Adds Electric Vehicle Charging to Massachusetts Renewable Microgrid Systems will Help Maximize Uptime and Support Business Continuity

Russelectric, A Siemens Business and manufacturer of distributed energy and microgrid control systems for mission critical commercial facilities for 50 years, has added electrical vehicle charging capabilities at its Hingham, Massachusetts, facility.

15 Jan 2021