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Air Mobility Command Using Aircraft Engine Wash System That Is Better for Both the Plane and the Environment

Air Mobility Command bases are using a new aircraft engine wash system that's not only better for the plane, but also it is better for the environment

30 Mar 2009

US Proposes Cutting Emissions From Ships Along American Coastlines

The United States took a critical step towards protecting Americans from harmful ship emissions by becoming the first country to ask the International Maritime Organization to create an emissions control area (ECA) around the nation’s coastline

30 Mar 2009

Nitrates in Small Streams Stimulate Greenhouse Gas Production

A study conducted at the University of Notre Dame revealed that nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, is frequently produced in the sediments of small streams and that production rates were best explained by stream water nitrate concentrations.

30 Mar 2009

Atlantis and Statkraft To Develop European Tidal Current Electricity Generation

Atlantis Resources Corporation, one of the world’s leading developers of electricity-generating tidal current turbines, has entered into a cooperation agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy

30 Mar 2009

Mud Flat Microbes Clean Up Oil Spill Pollution Chemicals

Micro-organisms occurring naturally in coastal mudflats have an essential role to play in cleaning up pollution by breaking down petrochemical residues

29 Mar 2009

Frozen Antarctic Dust May Answer Climate Change Questions

Dust trapped deep in Antarctic ice sheets is helping scientists unravel details of past climate change

29 Mar 2009

Environmental Groups List Georgia-Pacific Gypsum's Moisture and Mold-Resistant Tile Backer

Georgia-Pacific Gypsum is announcing that DensShield tile backer, the only tile backer with a built-in barrier to prevent moisture penetration, has been listed by two leading environmental organizations

29 Mar 2009

New Research Suggests That Climate Change Will Shift the Use of Agricultural Chemicals and May Harm Humans

New research suggests that increasing changes in global climate and oscillations in atmospheric temperatures may shift the use and spread of agricultural chemicals and pathogens, resulting in potentially harmful human exposures

29 Mar 2009

Global Warming Effects on Spiders May Lead to Bird Extinctions

Warm summers are dramatically reducing populations of daddy long legs, which in turn is having a severe impact on the bird populations which rely on them for food

29 Mar 2009

Nanotech Treatment for Solar Cells Boosts Efficiency

Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that boosts the light absorption of silicon photovoltaic cells in two complementary ways

29 Mar 2009