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Acumentrics Canada to Investigate Ammonia as a Hydrogen Source

Acumentrics Corporation's Canadian subsidiary, Acumentrics Canada Ltd., is partnering with Natural Resources Canada's CANMET Energy Technology Centre to investigate the use of ammonia as a fuel for Acumentrics' solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs).

10 Dec 2007

Ancient Flood Disrupted Ocean Circulation and Triggered Climate Cooling

As the giant North American ice sheets melted an enormous pool of freshwater, many times larger than all of the Great Lakes, formed behind them.

10 Dec 2007

Researchers Find That Dissolved Organic Material Increases Biological Risk of Aqueous Mercury

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin and a worrisome environmental contaminant, but the severity of its threat appears to depend on what else is in the water.

10 Dec 2007

English Chalk Streams Contributing to Global Warming

English chalk streams are less healthy than we thought and are potentially even contributing to global warming, said Dr Mark Trimmer at a Science Media Centre press briefing today.

10 Dec 2007

World's Protected Areas Threatened by Climate Change

Climate change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the resulting environments will be virtually new to the planet, according to a study presented at the U.N. climate change talks in Bali, Indonesia.

10 Dec 2007

Alcoa Supports Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" Project to Build Green Affordable Housing in New Orleans

Alcoa and Alcoa Foundation have announced support for Brad Pitt’s "Make It Right" (MIR) project to build green affordable housing on a large scale to help victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Loui...

6 Dec 2007

New Oil-Repelling Material from MIT - Many Applications

MIT engineers have designed the first simple process for manufacturing materials that strongly repel oils. The material, which can be applied as a flexible surface coating, could have applications in aviation, space travel and hazardous waste cleanup.

6 Dec 2007

Concentrated Solar Energy Reverses Combustion

Using concentrated solar energy to reverse combustion, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories is building a prototype device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power. The carbon monoxide could then be used to make hydrogen or serve as a building block to synthesize a liquid combustible fuel, such as methanol or even gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

6 Dec 2007

Greenhouse Gas-Gobbling Bacteria From Hell's Gate Could Aid Climate Change Battle

A new species of bacteria discovered living in one of the most extreme environments on Earth could yield a tool in the fight against global warming.

6 Dec 2007

50 Gigawatts of Electrical Power Could be Released by Damming Red Sea

Damming the Red Sea could solve the growing energy demands of millions of people in the Middle East and alleviate some of the region's tensions pertaining to oil supplies through hydroelectric power.

6 Dec 2007