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Largest U.S. Solar Energy Event Starts This Week

All roads lead to Southern California this week, as thousands of people from around the world attend Solar Power International, the largest solar energy industry event in the Americas

13 Oct 2008

Wireless Sensors Being Used to Improve Farming

An Iowa State University research team is developing transceivers and sensors designed to collect and send data about soil moisture within a field. Eventually the researchers are hoping the sensors will also collect data about soil temperature and nutrient content

13 Oct 2008

Space Probe Searching for Habitable Environment and Signs of Life on Planet Earth

Scientists using ESA’s Venus Express are trying to observe whether Earth is habitable. Silly, you might think, when we know that Earth is richly stocked with life. In fact, far from being a pointless exercise, Venus Express is paving the way for an exciting new era in astronomy

13 Oct 2008

Overwhelming Evidence of a Global Extinction Crisis For Mammals

An international team of scientists, including Dr. James Burton of Earthwatch, published an analysis of the latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in Science today. The report presents overwhelming evidence of an extinction crisis, with almost one in four mammal species at risk of disappearing forever

12 Oct 2008

Sources of Mercury Pollution Tracked by Coal Fingerprints

University of Michigan researchers have developed a new tool that uses natural "fingerprints" in coal to track down sources of mercury polluting the environment

12 Oct 2008

Children's Environmental Education Program Celebrates 15 Year Anniversary

Puget Sound Energy’s Powerful Choices for the Environment (Powerful Choices), a cooperative in-classroom educational program that teaches Washington state middle school students how their actions impact the environment, recently celebrated its 15-year anniversary at an event at PSE’s Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility near Ellensburg, Washington, USA

9 Oct 2008