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CITyFiED Project Aims to Find Most Efficient Route to Achieving Near Zero Energy Districts

Making substantial reductions in energy demand, green house gas emissions and incorporating renewable technologies at district and city level is a tricky task. A new community of cities is discovering real solutions with real impact as part of the CITyFiED project

2 Apr 2015

Rapid Agricultural Expansion Could Cause Rapid Further Losses of Biodiversity

Humanity’s use of land for agricultural production has come at a cost to local ecosystems worldwide, but some of the damage can be reversed, according to a major collaborative research project from the Natural History Museum, United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), and British universities.

2 Apr 2015

New Data About Northern and Arctic Climate Needed to Understand Climate Change

Novel data from the Artic and The North is needed to understand the changing climate. European, Russian and Chinese scientific leaders and researchers in climate issues gathered only recently in Helsinki, Finland for a conference on the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX).

2 Apr 2015

Apex Clean Energy Places 130 Wind Turbine Order for Kay Wind Project with Siemens

Siemens has been awarded an order from Apex Clean Energy to supply, support installation and provide long-term service for 130 wind turbines for the Kay Wind project to be located in Kay County, Oklahoma, approximately two hours north of Oklahoma City.

2 Apr 2015

Flowers Bloom Earlier When the Sweet Spot for Seeds Comes Earlier Due to Climate Change

Scientists at the John Innes Centre have discovered why the first buds of spring come increasingly earlier as the climate changes.

2 Apr 2015

Soil Organic Matter May Be Much More Vulnerable to Climate Change than Suspected

Soil organic matter, long thought to be a semi-permanent storehouse for ancient carbon, may be much more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought.

2 Apr 2015

Activity Levels of Lizards are Less Constrained by Warming Temperatures

Spring is here and ectotherms, or animals dependent on external sources to raise their body temperature, are becoming more active. Recent studies have shown that as the average global temperature increases, some lizards may spend more time in the shade and less time eating and reproducing, which could endanger many species.

2 Apr 2015

Ultrafine Particles Can Affect Cardiac Function

The adverse health effects caused by fine particles have been known for some time. In addition, ultrafine particles appear to play a significant role in cardiac function – even if an individual is exposed to these for only a few minutes, as scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München have now been able to show. The results of the study have been published in the journal Particle & Fibre Toxicology.

1 Apr 2015

Bacteria Contribute to Efficient Carbon Storage in the Ocean

Leipzig, Columbia (SC), Munich. The ocean is a large reservoir of dissolved organic molecules, and many of these molecules are stable against microbial utilization for hundreds to thousands of years.

1 Apr 2015

Rinko Bus to Operate Toshiba’s First Commercial Electric Bus in Kawasaki

Toshiba Corporation today announced that Kawasaki Tsurumi Rinko Bus Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Rinko Bus”) will start operating Toshiba’s first commercial electric bus on its Kawasaki Municipal Hospital route.

1 Apr 2015

JA Solar’s Salt Mist Resistant PV Modules Pass TUV Double Standard IEC 61701 Corrosion Test

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. ("JA Solar" or "JA"), one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, today announced that its salt mist resistance PV modules passed the Double Standard IEC 61701 Salt Mist Corrosion Test (Severity Level 6) conducted by TUV Nord.

1 Apr 2015

Canadian Solar Sells 10MW AC GoldLight Solar Power Plant to DIF

Canadian Solar Inc. (the "Company", or "Canadian Solar"), one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced the sale of the 10 MW AC GoldLight ("GoldLight") solar power plant to an affiliate of DIF Infrastructure III ("DIF").

1 Apr 2015

Climate Change Eats Into Profits of Soybean Farmers

Even during a good year, soybean farmers nationwide are, in essence, taking a loss. That's because changes in weather patterns have been eating into their profits and taking quite a bite: $11 billion over the past 20 years.

1 Apr 2015

International Project to Help Indian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Meet Environmental Regulations

A major international project will tackle one of the main sources of pollution in India – Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) who are struggling to meet environmental regulations.

1 Apr 2015

Marine Ecosystems Can Take Thousands of Years to Recover from Climate-Related Upheavals

A 30-foot-long core sample of Pacific Ocean seafloor is changing what we know about ocean resiliency in the face of rapidly changing climate. A new study reports that marine ecosystems can take thousands, rather than hundreds, of years to recover from climate-related upheavals.

31 Mar 2015