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Climate Change May Drastically Increase Variability in Nile's Annual Output, Find MIT Researchers

Climate change could lead to overall increase in river flow, but more droughts and floods, study shows.

25 Apr 2017

New Project Aims to Remove Greenhouse Gases to Counteract Global Warming

A University of Bristol academic will lead one of seven topic-specific projects announced yesterday by NERC as part of a £8.6million research programme which will investigate ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to counteract global warming.

24 Apr 2017

Sunvapor and Horizon Nut Collaborate to Showcase New Low-Cost Solar Thermal Collector Technology

Sunvapor and Horizon Nut jointly announced on the eve of Earth Day that they are teaming up to demonstrate new technology that transforms solar energy into heat that can be used for all of the food industry's needs like steam pasteurization, drying, blanching, cleaning, and roasting.

24 Apr 2017

UH Graduate Engineering Student Earns NASA Fellowship to Help Build Advanced Battery

The scientific community is constantly in the pursuit of a battery that is safer, lighter, and longer lasting for a range of applications from portable electronics to transportation and launching space satellites.

21 Apr 2017

Unknown Powers of Water Could Help in Revolutionizing Medicine and Sustainability

Two nanotechnology scientists from Northwestern University accidentally stumbled on separate revolutionary discoveries just down the hall from each other. Between them, they could reduce the need for multiple surgeries in patients and also transform water filtration.

21 Apr 2017

Study Shows Advantage in Shifting Investment from Carbon to Non-Carbon Power Sources in Near-Term

A new study details why it’s prudent to invest in carbon-free electricity now.

21 Apr 2017

UCR Researchers Convert Glass Bottles into High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries

A research group at the University of California (UCR), Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering has developed nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries, by simply using a low-cost chemical process and waste glass bottles.

20 Apr 2017

Researchers Design Novel Membranes to Remove Viruses from Drinking Water

A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have created novel ultrafiltration membranes that considerably enhance the virus-removal process from treated municipal wastewater used for drinking in cities facing water scarcity.

20 Apr 2017

USC scientists Study the Use of Methanol as a Fuel-Efficient Renewable Energy Source

USC scientists continue with their fossil fuel fight even as they develop a new method for producing reversible hydrogen storage based on methanol, without carbon emissions, in the final major paper co-authored by USC’s first Nobel laureate, the late George Olah.

20 Apr 2017

Researchers Create Eco-Friendly Electronic Components from Corn Starch

The amount of electronic waste generated keeps increasing as consumers keep upgrading their devices at a rapid pace. To help battle this problematic environmental issue, researchers have altered a degradable bioplastic fabricated from corn starch and other natural sources for use in more eco-friendly electronic parts.

20 Apr 2017

Unique Fabric-Shredding Machine to Tackle the Environmental Problem of Post-Consumer Textile Waste

The average American goes through roughly 70 pounds of clothing each year, creating approximately 21 billion pounds of clothing sent to landfills – five percent of all landfill waste, according to the Council for Textile Recycling.

20 Apr 2017

MIT Engineers Find Way to Cut Cost of Solar-Powered Drip Systems by Half

New design cuts costs, energy needs for drip irrigation, bringing the systems within reach for more farmers.

20 Apr 2017

New Reusable Packaging Technology Creatively Reduces Waste from Plastic Water Bottles

DBA the Eco Connect Bottle® System is a patented container coupling technology that utilizes a precise exclusive recess molded into the bottle base to enable empty bottles to be firmly connected to each other, and different types of functional connector pieces to construct several useful household items like desks, tables, trash bins, storage cubes, toys, and even building insulation.

19 Apr 2017

Flex Introduces Renewable Energy Storage Solution

Flex, the Sketch-to-Scale™ solutions company that designs and constructs intelligent products for a connected world, has increased its contributions to the renewable energy sector with the launch of energy storage solutions to resolve the challenge of combining solar and wind power into the energy grid.

19 Apr 2017

Sustainability Leadership Efforts at UNH Contribute to Groundbreaking Initiative to Reduce Nitrogen Footprint

Sustainability leadership efforts at the University of New Hampshire have contributed to a groundbreaking initiative to measure and reduce the nitrogen footprint left behind by campus activities like food waste and energy consumption.

19 Apr 2017