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Beetles Killing Pine Trees Altering Weather Patterns in the Rocky Mountains

By killing large swaths of forests in the Rocky Mountains, mountain pine beetles may be altering local weather patterns and air quality. NCAR is leading an international field project exploring how the loss of trees and other vegetation influences rainfall, temperatures, smog, and other aspects of the atmosphere

25 Sep 2008

Advertising Campaign Takes Off Promoting Ethanol

America’s ethanol industry has a fantastic story to tell. Beginning this week, that story is being told to millions of Americans as the Renewable Fuels Association launches two ads very clearly stating the benefits of today’s domestic renewable fuels industry

24 Sep 2008

Scientists in Hawaii Hit The Waves for Some Scientific Surfing

Chemists have traded their white coats for swim shorts at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu – they’ve shunned the lab so they can swim out to the breakers with a test-tube built into a boogie-board

22 Sep 2008

Forest Fire Prevention Using Sensors Powered by Electricity from the Trees

MIT researchers and colleagues are working to find out whether energy from trees can power a network of sensors to prevent spreading forest fires

22 Sep 2008

BioFuelBox Wins AlwaysOn GoingGreen Top 100 for Turning Municipal and Industrial Waste Into Energy and Fuel

BioFuelBox Corporation today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen Top 100 Winners

17 Sep 2008

BioSolar Has Proven That Petroleum Products are Not Necessary to Produce Renewable Energy

BioSolar continues to garner media coverage following last month’s announcement that materials derived from cotton and castor beans compose the company’s proprietary BioBacksheet, a protective covering, traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film, used in the back of virtually all photovoltaic solar modules

15 Sep 2008

New Wafer Cutting Method Slices Solar Power Costs

University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost of such cells by reducing the waste and breakage of the brittle semiconductor

15 Sep 2008