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NOAA Marine Debris Art Contest Helps Raise Awareness About Marine Debris

Our Great Lakes and oceans are filled with items that do not belong there. Huge amounts of consumer plastics, metals, rubber, paper, textiles, derelict fishing gear, vessels, and other lost or discarded items enter the environment every day, making marine debris one of the most widespread pollution problems facing the world’s oceans and waterways.

28 Oct 2015

SunLink Completes Delivery of 37MW of Solar Projects in Western Honduras

In keeping with SunLink Corporation’s rapid expansion across the board, the company revealed today that as part of its expanding international footprint it has completed delivery in connection with projects in Western Honduras totaling 37 MW.

28 Oct 2015

Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop MOFs for Storing Methane

With new makes of all-electric and hybrid automobiles seeming to emerge as fast as the colors of fall, it is easy to overlook another alternative to gasoline engines that could prove to be a major player in reduced-carbon transportation – cars powered by natural gas.

28 Oct 2015

Li-ion-Titanate Battery System for Managing and Storing Energy Connected to Romande Energie-EPFL Solar Park

The experimental storage system was inaugurated today and is now connected to the Romande Energie-EPFL solar park, one of the largest in French-speaking Switzerland.

28 Oct 2015

NPL Supports Decarbonathon Competition

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is supporting a new competition to identify innovative technologies that reduce carbon emissions and bring them to market quicker.

28 Oct 2015

UC Riverside Names Climate Action Champion and Climate Neutrality Fellows

The University of California, Riverside has announced the name of the professor who has been named a climate action champion and the students who have been named climate neutrality fellows.

27 Oct 2015

Simplified Approach to Packaging and Disposal of Intermediate Level Waste at Sellafield

The research, which focussed on the chemical behaviours of intermediate level waste (ILW) at the site, unearthed previously unknown information about the long-term corrosion behaviours of magnesium and uranium.

27 Oct 2015

Allocation of Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Reductions Key for Outcome of World Climate Summit

Though most countries around the globe agree that warming must be limited to 2 degrees Celsius to avoid the raft of climate risks, they clash about who should do what to reach this target.

27 Oct 2015

Ancient Permafrost Thawed by Changing Climate Could Release Massive Amounts of Carbon Dioxide

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and key academic partners including the University of Colorado Boulder have quantified how rapidly ancient permafrost decomposes upon thawing and how much carbon dioxide is produced in the process.

27 Oct 2015

Unprecedented Deadly Heat due to Climate Change Could hit the Persian Gulf Region

Within this century, parts of the Persian Gulf region could be hit with unprecedented events of deadly heat as a result of climate change, according to a study of high-resolution climate models.

27 Oct 2015

Wood Could Soon Replace Petroleum for Manufacturing Chemical Substances

Petroleum might well be replaced by wood soon when it comes to manufacturing chemical substances. Research has now made significant progress towards using sustainable biomass, like wood, as an alternative raw material for chemical production.

27 Oct 2015

Scientists Call on Policymakers to Plant More Trees to Help Protect River Habitats from Climate Change

New research has prompted scientists to call on policymakers to plant more trees alongside upland rivers and streams, in an effort to save their habitats from the future harm of climate change.

26 Oct 2015

GeckoLogic Firm Develops Air Cooling System Based on Clean Energy

GeckoLogic firm developed an evaporative cooler that has an integrated photovoltaic system isolated from the electrical network, which enables to refresh an area of approximately 200 square meters.

26 Oct 2015

World's Most Energy-Rich Geothermal Well May Become a Reality

There is an infinite amount of energy lying right beneath our feet. It is a renewable and stable energy source – free of CO2 emissions. Researchers are now planning to drill deep into the Earth to extract it. If they succeed it will be a major technological breakthrough.

26 Oct 2015

Deep-Sea Bacteria May Neutralize Industrial Carbon Dioxide in the Earth's Atmosphere

A type of bacteria plucked from the bottom of the ocean could be put to work neutralizing large amounts of industrial carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, a group of University of Florida researchers has found.

26 Oct 2015