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Winners of Cleantech Open’s Global Ideas Competition Announced

The Cleantech Open, the world's largest clean-technology accelerator, has announced the winners of the Global Ideas Competition. Now in its fifth year, the Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition brings early-stage startups with breakthrough cleantech ideas to Silicon Valley to compete for the Global Ideas Prize.

5 Dec 2013

Concord Blue and LanzaTech Partner to Demonstrate Production of Fuels from Waste Materials

Concord Blue USA, Inc. and LanzaTech have entered into an agreement to integrate their individually proven technologies to demonstrate the production of fuels and chemicals from waste materials.

5 Dec 2013

Upper Ocean Crust Could Safely Store Large Volumes of Carbon Dioxide

Researchers from the University of Southampton have identified regions beneath the oceans where the igneous rocks of the upper ocean crust could safely store very large volumes of carbon dioxide.

5 Dec 2013

Global Warming Shrinks Massive Plates of Sea Ice in the Arctic Ocean

For the past three decades, as the climate has warmed, the massive plates of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean have shrunk: In 2007, scientists observed nearly 50 percent less summer ice than had been seen in 1980.

5 Dec 2013

Carbon Dioxide Pumped Into the Air Affects Carbon Cycle of the Coastal Ocean

Carbon dioxide pumped into the air since the Industrial Revolution appears to have changed the way the coastal ocean functions, according to a new analysis published this week in Nature.

5 Dec 2013

Fish Get Anxious When Exposed to Acidified Ocean Conditions

A new research study combining marine physiology, neuroscience, pharmacology and behavioral psychology has revealed a surprising outcome from increases of carbon dioxide uptake in the oceans: anxious fish.

5 Dec 2013

Rapid Regional Climate Changes Had Occurred with a Time Difference of 120 Years

Regional climate changes can be very rapid. A German-British team of geoscientists now reports that such a rapid climate change occurred in different regions with a time difference of 120 years. Investigation in the west German Eifel region and in southern Norway demonstrated that at the end of the last glaciation about 12,240 years before present climate became warmer, first recognised in the Eifel region and 120 years later in southern Norway. Nonetheless, the warming was equally rapid in both regions.

5 Dec 2013

SunEdison and New York City Launch Innovative Solar Energy Project

SunEdison, one of the world's largest solar energy providers, last week introduced an innovative renewable energy project in partnership with America's largest city.

5 Dec 2013

Pollutec Horizons 2013: Ontario Clean Technology Alliance Invites Global Investments

As Canada enjoys a $350 billion “infrastructure supercycle” over the next five years, the Ontario Clean Technology Alliance – a collective of regional and municipal economic development organizations across Ontario – is attending Pollutec Horizons 2013 in Paris.

5 Dec 2013

Uniflare and Allison Engineering Introduce New Micro-biological Desulphurisation System at the Cory Waste Management Site

The commissioning of a new cost-saving micro-biological desulphurisation system at the Cory Waste Management site in Weston-super-Mare is the result of a successful collaboration between Uniflare, the Warwickshire based environmental technology specialists and Allison Engineering.

4 Dec 2013

Geochemistry Researchers Provide Benchmarks for Monitoring Shale Gas Pollution

As a result of the fracking revolution, North America has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world's largest producer of oil and gas. This, despite endless protests from environmentalists. But does drilling for natural gas really cause pollution levels to skyrocket?

4 Dec 2013

Highly Efficient Design of Novel Thermoelectronic Generator

Through a process known as thermionic conversion, heat energy -- such as light from the sun or heat from burned fossil fuels -- can be converted into electricity with very high efficiency. Because of its promise, researchers have been trying for more than half a century to develop a practical thermionic generator, with little luck. That luck may soon change, thanks to a new design -- dubbed a thermoelectronic generator -- described in AIP Publishing's Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (JRSE).

4 Dec 2013

Penn State Researchers Report Companies Can Switch to Wood Boilers for Heat and Power

Some companies could economically convert their operations to wood boilers for heat and power, according to a team of forestry researchers.

4 Dec 2013

Report Calls for Development of Early Warning System to Counter Abrupt Climate Change

Climate change has increased concern over possible large and rapid changes in the physical climate system, which includes the Earth's atmosphere, land surfaces, and oceans. Some of these changes could occur within a few decades or even years, leaving little time for society and ecosystems to adapt.

4 Dec 2013

Plos One Calls for Papers on Response to Climate Change

PLOS ONE publishes "Assessing Dangerous Climate Change: Required Reductions of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature" from James Hansen and colleagues, and announces call for papers on responses to climate change:

4 Dec 2013