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NPC Installs 2,280 Panel Solar Array on Cyanotech’s Microalgae Farm

Cyanotech Corporation, a global producer of effective, natural microalgae nutritional supplements, announced the installation of its new solar array by Neighborhood Power Company (NPC).

3 Nov 2014

UC Riverside Hosted Panel to Discuss Sustainability Issues of Salton Sea

Created by accident and once a popular tourist destination, the Salton Sea has been the receptacle for run-off of salt, fertilizers and pesticides from the nearly half a million acres of agricultural land that surrounds it. The Salton Sea Initiative at the University of California, Irvine is a multidisciplinary group investigating the sustainability challenges that face the Salton Sea region.

3 Nov 2014

Extreme Events in the Future Pose Hazards to NASA’s Mission, Infrastructure and Workforce

A new study in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society provides an in-depth look at how NASA facilities have been affected by climate extremes and climate change in recent years and how the agency is preparing for the future.

3 Nov 2014

Researchers Accurately Measure Concentrations of PCB Pollutants in Ice of Alpine Glacier

As glaciers increasingly melt in the wake of climate change, it is not only the landscape that is affected. Thawing glaciers also release many industrial pollutants stored in the ice into the environment.

3 Nov 2014

KREDL Awards 5 Solar PV Projects Totaling 150MW to SunEdison

SunEdison, Inc., a leading global solar technology manufacturer and provider of solar energy services, today announced that it has won 5 solar photovoltaic (PV) projects totaling 150 megawatts (MW) from Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL) as announced by the Government of Karnataka.

31 Oct 2014

SolarWorld to Increase Annual Solar-Panel Production Capacity to 530MW

SolarWorld, the largest crystalline silicon solar producer in the Americas for nearly 40 years, announced that in 2015, it would add a solar-panel production line in Hillsboro to bring the panel-assembly factory’s capacity up to 530 megawatts (MW), expand advanced cell production capacity by 100 MW and add 200 jobs.

31 Oct 2014

Research on MOFs for Extracting Uranium from Seawater Wins DoE Award

Scientists have long known that seawater contains small concentrations of valuable metals, but a technologically feasible extraction method has remained elusive. The University of Chicago's Carter Abney, a graduate student in chemistry, has been developing materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to help address the problem.

31 Oct 2014

Deep Ice Sheet Coring Drill Provides Cores for Climate Study

Wisconsin is famous for its ice fishers — the stalwarts who drill holes through lake ice in the hope of catching a winter dinner. Less well known are the state's big-league ice drillers — specialists who design huge drills and use them to drill deep into ice in Greenland and Antarctica, places where even summer seems like winter.

31 Oct 2014

Antarctic Ozone Hole Reaches Annual Peak Size in September

The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual peak size on Sept. 11, according to scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The size of this year’s hole was 24.1 million square kilometers (9.3 million square miles) — an area roughly the size of North America.

31 Oct 2014

Unconventional Oil and Gas Production Releases Air Pollutants Well Over Recommended Levels

Research suggesting air pollutants released by unconventional oil and gas production are well over recommended levels in the US is published today in the open access journal Environmental Health.

31 Oct 2014

SunEdison Enters MoU with Rajasthan Government to Establish 5GWs of Solar PV Projects

SunEdison, Inc.,, a leading global solar technology manufacturer and provider of solar energy services, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Rajasthan Government aimed at developing Rajasthan as the global hub for solar energy.

30 Oct 2014

New Technique to Accurately Measure Major Greenhouse Gases

By remotely "combing" the atmosphere with a custom laser-based instrument, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have developed a new technique that can accurately measure—over a sizeable distance—amounts of several of the major "greenhouse" gases implicated in climate change.

30 Oct 2014

CSEM Introduces White Solar Modules

CSEM announces the world's first white solar modules. This innovative technology is particularly attractive to the building industry where solar elements can blend into a building's skin and become virtually hidden energy sources. Applications in the consumer goods sector are also expected.

30 Oct 2014

Siemens Canada to Commission Wind Turbines for Samsung and Pattern Development

Siemens Canada announced that it will supply, install and commission wind turbines for Samsung Renewable Energy Inc. (Samsung) and Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern Development). The SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines for the Armow Wind project will be located in the municipality of Kincardine.

30 Oct 2014

$15 Million Self-Replenishing Fund Created to Support UCLA’s Campus Sustainability Projects

UCLA on Tuesday announced the creation of a $15 million self-replenishing fund to support campus sustainability projects, forming the largest fund of its kind in the country.

30 Oct 2014