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EU Gets Closer to Circular Plastics Economy with New Rules to Reduce Marine Litter

The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have reached a provisional political agreement on the ambitious new measures proposed by the Commission to tackle marine litter at its source, targeting the 10 plastic products most often found on our beaches as well as abandoned fishing gear.

15 Jan 2019

Studying the Effect of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems

When a nor’easter struck the East Coast in early January 2018, a record-breaking high tide made several streets in Boston inaccessible, and in Boston’s Seaport District, seawater rushed down Seaport Boulevard.

28 Dec 2018

Even Slight Changes in Oxygen Levels Can have Big Consequences for Tiny Marine Organisms

According to the findings of oceanographers at The University of Rhode Island, even slight levels of ocean oxygen loss, or deoxygenation, have significant impact on tiny marine organisms known as zooplankton.

20 Dec 2018

Stanford Scientists Reveal How Human-Generated Carbon Dioxide Could Reshape Oceans

Something strange is taking place in the blue waters off the rocky cliffs of Ischia, Italy. There, streams of gas-filled volcanic bubbles rising up to the surface are drastically altering life around them by turning the seawater acidic.

12 Dec 2018

Effective Management of the Marine Ecosystem Could Reduce Impact of Future Global Changes

According to a new study, increased oil and gas activities could merge with ocean acidification and ocean warming to have a major negative effect on marine organisms.

27 Nov 2018

New Study Evaluates the Potential Carbon Storage Benefits of Streamside Forests

Since forests are capable of storing substantial amounts of carbon, both in the soil and the trees, restoration of degraded forests is an important strategy for dealing with climate change.

13 Nov 2018

Eco-Revolutionary Stirling Engine Converts Residual Gas into Electricity

With a groundbreaking Stirling engine from the Swedish environmental technology company Ripasso Energy, the largest "waste-to-energy" project of its kind ever implemented in Africa may be realised.

From Ripasso Energy AB 2 Nov 2018

DuPont Clean Technologies Wins “Best Refining Technology”

Nearly 150 of the downstream processing industry’s leading players gathered recently to find out, and celebrate, the winners of the 2018 Hydrocarbon Processing (HP) Awards.

From DuPont Clean Technologies 8 Oct 2018

Noble Quest: Clearing the Air Over Potentially Life-Saving Gases

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, partnered with world leader in medical gases, Air Liquide Healthcare, to reveal how the noble gases’ interactions with proteins could one day be used to treat a variety of health issues.

4 Sep 2018

New Technique to Better Predict How Plants in Cold Regions React to Global Warming

Scientists have formulated a method that may provide a more accurate representation of Arctic vegetation & Earth’s climate’s recent past.

23 Aug 2018

Ecosystems News

EU Gets Closer to Circular Plastics Economy with New Rules to Reduce Marine Litter

Studying the Effect of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems

Even Slight Changes in Oxygen Levels Can have Big Consequences for Tiny Marine Organisms

Stanford Scientists Reveal How Human-Generated Carbon Dioxide Could Reshape Oceans

Effective Management of the Marine Ecosystem Could Reduce Impact of Future Global Changes

New Study Evaluates the Potential Carbon Storage Benefits of Streamside Forests

Eco-Revolutionary Stirling Engine Converts Residual Gas into Electricity

DuPont Clean Technologies Wins “Best Refining Technology”

Noble Quest: Clearing the Air Over Potentially Life-Saving Gases

New Technique to Better Predict How Plants in Cold Regions React to Global Warming

Producing Clean Hydrogen with Near-Zero Carbon Emissions with The Hazer Process

Relocating the Growing of Food to Urban Areas

How Origin’s Solar Power Purchase Agreement is helping more Businesses go Solar

RT1 Smart Rooftop Photovoltaic Monitoring System

Ultra-Low Power, Wireless RTU Data Logger - Infinite ADU-500

Analyzing Liquids and Oils with FTIR Spectroscopy

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Improving Water Flow Studies with Ultrasonic Level Detectors

The Benefits of CO2 Neutral e-Diesel

Graphene as a Renewable Energy

Ecosystems News

1 New Breakthrough Technology Could Advance Wind Turbines and Electric and Hybrid Vehicles

2 A Sustainable Way to Convert Forestry Waste into Chemicals and Transport Fuels

3 New Method to Produce Bioplastics Using Seaweed-eating Microorganisms

4 New Study Predicts Lithium-Ion-Based Batteries to be the Cheapest Way to Store Electricity in Future

5 Study Shows Organically Farmed Food Has Bigger Climate Impact than Conventionally Farmed Food

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