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Lake Michigan Turtles Could be Useful Source for Measuring Wetland Pollution

A range of wildlife and environmental problems have been created in the Great Lakes area due to many years of uncontrolled industrial waste dumping. It is proposed that snapping and painted turtles in Lake Michigan could be a practical way for determining the resultant pollution.

13 Jun 2016

New Study Examines Local Heat-Stress-Related Productivity Reductions that Contrubute to Global Effects

The susceptibility of the global economic network to workers' heat-stress has doubled in the last decade, a new study published in the journal Science Advances finds.

13 Jun 2016

Duke University Study Finds Impact of Coal Ash Ponds on Nearby Water Sources

A Duke University study of coal ash ponds near 21 power plants in five Southeastern U.S. states has found evidence that nearby surface waters and groundwater are consistently and lastingly contaminated by the unlined ponds.

13 Jun 2016

New Study Links Melting Ice in Greenland to Arctic Amplification

A new study provides the first evidence that links melting ice in Greenland to a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification--faster warming of the Arctic compared to the rest of the Northern Hemisphere as sea ice disappears.

10 Jun 2016

Increased Demand for Bioenergy Without Better Policies Will Lead to Increased Pressure on Forests

The new study, conducted by researchers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and partner organizations for the European Commission, explores the potential impacts, interactions, and implications for resource efficiency that could come from increased bioenergy demand.

10 Jun 2016

Researchers Discover Novel Way to Significantly Increase Efficiency of Solar Absorber

Masdar Institute faculty are part of a collaborative team of researchers that has discovered a novel way to significantly increase the amount of sunlight that a solar absorber can convert into heat.

10 Jun 2016

EPFL Researchers Push Limits of Perovskite Solar Cell Performance

EPFL researchers are pushing the limits of perovskite solar cell performance by exploring the best way to grow these crystals.

10 Jun 2016

Study Shows How Streptomyces Bacteria Could Improve Biofuel Production

Very few valuable things are vital to life as death if we are composed of carbon. A dead tree is a representation of the downfall of the building blocks required for producing new flora and fauna as well as the energy to maintain them.

10 Jun 2016

Electrocatalysis Could Play Significant Role Towards More Sustainable Energy

Electrocatalysis may play a significant role in the evolution of more sustainable energy in the future. Chemist Isis Ledezma Yanez, who will be defending her doctoral thesis on the 9th of June, provides a clear picture on the hydrogen evolution process.

9 Jun 2016

Alaska Airlines Operates First Commercial Flights Using Gevo’s Renewable Alcohol-to-Jet Biofuel

Alaska Airlines today operated the first commercial flights using a 20 percent blend of renewable alcohol-to-jet biofuel produced by Gevo, a renewable chemical and biofuel company. The two flights originated in Seattle with destinations of San Francisco and Washington D.C.

9 Jun 2016

Origin’s New Solar Solution Provides Manufacturing Industry with Cost-Effective Energy Option

After raw material costs, energy costs are the next biggest burden borne by businesses within the manufacturing sector in Australia. Solar energy has been thought of as an ideal option for manufacturing businesses to lower costs; however, the costs to install an adequately large solar system to handle their energy requirements have been very high in most cases.

9 Jun 2016

Understanding Imbalance in World’s Carbon Budget Could Help Predict Course of Global Climate Change

A high-resolution model of how soil erosion impacts the carbon cycle of a small South Carolina watershed may help explain an apparent imbalance in the world’s carbon budget. Explaining that apparent imbalance is necessary for understanding and predicting the course of global climate change.

8 Jun 2016

Researchers Design Molecular Catalyst to Meet Future Hydrogen Energy Needs

Hydrogen-powered cars could soon become a reality with a new, radical technique that process that enables efficient sourcing of hydrogen from liquid formic acid.

7 Jun 2016

Geo-Engineering Could Help Control Phosphorus Pollution in Lake Beds

The biggest cause of water quality degradation around the world is phosphorus. It causes ‘dead zones’, toxic algal to bloom, poses more health risks for the animals, plants, and humans that are exposed to the polluted waters, and leads to loss of biodiversity. This in turn could lead to loss of economic and social profits based on freshwaters upon which society is dependant.

7 Jun 2016

NASA’s Airborne Survey of Polar Ice Completes Eighth Spring Arctic Campaign

Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne survey of polar ice, ended its eighth spring Arctic campaign on May 21. During their five weeks of operations, mission scientists carried out six research flights over sea ice and ten over land ice.

7 Jun 2016