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Arvia's Water and Wastewater Treatment System Wins Innovation Award at WEX Global 2016

Arvia Technology is the winner of the Innovation Award at the Innovation Forum of the 10th Annual Water and Energy Exchange Global Conference in Portugal.

8 Mar 2016

USDA Secretary Views Agriculturally-Based Bioindustries Sector as One of Transformational Components of American Economy

Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), views the agriculturally-based bioindustries sector as one of the transformational components of an American economy with a greater emphasis on manufacturing and production, and as an opportunity to address climate change in a creative and innovative way.

7 Mar 2016

Climate Mitigation Efforts in Energy System Could Lead to Increasing Pressure on Water Resources

A latest study reported in the Environmental Research Letters journal states that the efforts to mitigate climatic conditions might cause pressure on water resources to increase.

4 Mar 2016

Researchers Analyze Renewable Energy Predictions

In comparison to standard energy sources like oil or coal, the demand and supply of renewable energy is difficult to predict, as they are strongly influenced by the natural fluctuations in the power source. This creates problems in determining the amount of renewable energy that would be readily available for different consumer requirements.

4 Mar 2016

New Software for Researchers to Investigate Vegetation Dynamics in Forests

Modeling forest dynamics is fundamental to the study of future changes in climate and biodiversity. A new modeling framework developed in collaboration with IIASA researchers facilitates investigations of complex vegetation dynamics.

4 Mar 2016

Study Findings Offer New Options for Urban Water and Energy Management

Renewable hydropower generated from desalination plants and other existing infrastructure would bring economic and environmental benefits to our biggest cities, according to new research from Griffith University.

4 Mar 2016

New Insights into Physical Processes Controlling Change in Reflectivity of Greenland Ice Sheet

Greenland's snowy surface has been getting darker over the past two decades, absorbing more heat from the sun and increasing snow melt, a new study of satellite data shows.

4 Mar 2016

Simple, Reliable and Efficient Design to Harness Power from Ocean Currents

Fossil fuels propelled the Industrial Revolution and subsequent technological advances. However, our future cannot be based on them, if only because they are a finite resource; and we are very close to exhausting them.

4 Mar 2016

Results of GLUES Project Provide New Insights into Sustainable Land Use

The way we use land is changing. Demand for farmland, food and energy seems insatiable, but land is a finite resource. The research programme "Sustainable Land Management" investigated the consequences of this land use under global change and developed strategies for a sustainable use within a 7-year research program ending in 2016.

4 Mar 2016

Scientists Reveal New Way to Make Carbon Neutral and Carbon Negative Electric Vehicles

A multidisciplinary research team have developed a method to produce electric vehicles that are both carbon negative and carbon neutral. This means that the vehicle will be able to reduce the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as they are driven.

4 Mar 2016

Chemists One Step Closer to Achieving Sustainable Biofuels

Vehicle fuels obtained from plant wastes are generally climate friendly and sustainable. However obtaining energy stored in stems, twigs, and bark is a challenging process as it is locked up in the cellulose.

3 Mar 2016

Saline Groundwater Better than Seawater for Reverse Osmosis Desalination

A team of researchers from the Ben-Gurion University Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, the BGU Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, and the Israel Geological Survey have established that compared to seawater, saline groundwater obtained from coastal aquifers is a better water source for reverse osmosis (RO) desalination. The main reasons for this are the reduced pre-treatment costs and minimal membrane fouling. The research findings have been published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal.

3 Mar 2016

Wastewater Treatment Facilities Ineffective at Removing Certain Chemicals

Farmers in drought areas are especially concerned by this question. As fresh water resources become scarce, one option for water-conscious farmers is to water crops with treated wastewater.

3 Mar 2016

UCSB Researchers Analyze Negative Effects of Green Products

If you buy a hybrid SUV rather than a conventional SUV of equal size, you naturally think you have chosen the "green" option. But that hybrid vehicle is not greener than a conventional compact car that gets poorer mileage than the hybrid.

3 Mar 2016

Carbon Stored in Arctic Soil’s Permafrost Layer Could Accelerate Global Warming

Neil Sturchio, professor and chair of the University of Delaware's Department of Geological Sciences, is exploring how the thawing of permafrost, a subsurface layer of soil that remains mostly frozen throughout the year, affects vegetation and the carbon cycle in the Toolik Lake area of the Alaska's North Slope.

3 Mar 2016