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Kyocera Leads San Diego Business Community in Environmental Achievement

Kyocera Wireless Corp. (KWC), a leading global manufacturer of wireless handsets and devices, announced that it has again earned its eighth consecutive recycling award from the City of San Diego's Environmental Services Department (ESD).

28 Apr 2008

Environmental Information Provider Offers Tools to Help Screen Properties for Harmful Vapor Intrusion

Environmental Data Resources, Inc. (EDR), the leading U.S. provider of environmental risk information services and solutions, today announced the results of a poll indicating a high level of awareness of the health, investment and liability risks associated with vapor intrusion.

28 Apr 2008

Innovative Technology Opens the Way to the Economic Production of Renewable Energies

Eco-Solution, which is specialized in the treatment of persistent industrial pollutants in the environment, today announces the launch of a new technology platform: this platform is based on the control of Directed Evolution, a technology developed by Eco-Solution for the high-throughput selection of natural variants of microbial strains with improved properties.

28 Apr 2008

Reducing Home Heating and Cooling Costs With Proper Insulation

Heating and cooling account for 50 to 70 percent of the energy used in the average American home. What a tragedy if that energy were literally going out the window. According to the United States Department of Energy, homeowners can reduce home heating and cooling costs by as much as 30 percent with proper insulation.

25 Apr 2008

Sealsafe Deliver Higher Levels of Light While Minimizing Light Pollution and Energy Costs

After more than two decades of producing the energy efficient optical system for commercial outdoor lighting, Schréder Lighting USA highlights the innovative, award-winning Sealsafe Optical Lighting System in the United States.

25 Apr 2008

Toyota Pledges Three-Year $1.4 Million Sponsorship of MillionTreesNYC

MillionTreesNYC, a public-private partnership between the New York City Department of Parks + Recreation and New York Restoration Project (NYRP) to plant and care for one million new trees in New York City by 2017 today announced a new supporter in its mission to improve New York City's environment.

25 Apr 2008

Discovery of Ocean Currents Could Dramatically Improve Forecasts of Climate

An international collaborative of scientists led by Peter Niiler, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and Nikolai Maximenko, a researcher at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, has detected the presence of crisscrossing patterns of currents running throughout the world's oceans.

25 Apr 2008

The First U.S. Gaming Corporation to Receive an Environmental Quality Award

Green is not just the color of money at Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. It's also the way the company operates.

25 Apr 2008

Richer Plant Diversity Significantly Enhances an Ecosystem's Productivity

In the first experiment involving a natural environment, scientists at Brown University have shown that richer plant diversity significantly enhances an ecosystem's productivity. The finding underscores the benefits of biodiversity, such as capturing carbon dioxide, a main contributor to global warming.

24 Apr 2008

Conditions are Ripe for Another Large Bloom in New England Waters

The end of April usually brings the first signs of harmful algae in New England waters, and this year, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and North Carolina State University (NC State) are preparing for a potentially big bloom.

24 Apr 2008