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G8 Leaders Reach Agreement on Global Warming Goals

Hopes that a comprehensive climate agreement can be agreed in Copenhagen in December were given a boost after leaders of the world's eight major economic powers agreed to broad goals for reducing global warming at the G8 meeting

10 Jul 2009

Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells The Promise of Nanotechnology and Nanopillars

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low cost and flexible materials

9 Jul 2009

California Energy Supplier Picks SOLON to Build 2 Megawatt Solar Power Plant

U.S. energy supplier Pacific Gas and Electric Company, headquartered in San Francisco, California, has commissioned the SOLON Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, to build a photovoltaic power plant with a capacity of 2 megawatts (MW) in California

9 Jul 2009

How and Where Should Nuclear Waste Be Disposed

The withdrawal Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high level nuclear waste

9 Jul 2009

Monitoring The Effect of Nanomaterials on the Environment

Edmonton-University of Alberta biological sciences professor Gregg Goss is on the front line of a new effort to monitor the effects of nanomaterials on the environment

8 Jul 2009

Sustainable Farming Practices of the Future to Borrow From Ancient Farming Methods

The effect of climate change on some parasitic diseases of livestock is far more complex than previously thought, and farmers may have to look to historic farming practices to control future diseases

8 Jul 2009

Using Magnets to Make Hybrid and Electric Cars More Efficient and Economically Competitive

By optimising magnets, hybrid and electric cars can be made economically competitive

8 Jul 2009

Reducing Climate Emissions From Deforestation and Land Degradation

In the run-up to this year's climate talks in Copenhagen will climate negotiators be able to agree on a global framework for reducing forest emissions and their role in climate change mitigation? SciDev.Net (The Science...

8 Jul 2009

World at Green Economy Cross Roads

In a keynote address to Chatham House in London, UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner today said G8 leaders have a golden opportunity to focus political action towards powering forward a Green Economy future

8 Jul 2009

National Solar Thermal Test Facility Shows Off New SunCatcher Power System

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers (TM), the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in commercial-scale deployments of the units beginning in 2010

8 Jul 2009

Clean Fuels in Ships Could Reduce Polluting Emissions and Save 40000 Lives Each Year

Rising levels of smokestack emissions from oceangoing ships will cause an estimated 87,000 deaths worldwide each year by 2012. A new study says that government action to reduce sulfur emissions from shipping fuel could reduce that toll

8 Jul 2009

Weed Killers Shown To Improve Nutritional Value of Food Crops

Scientists are reporting for the first time that the use of weed killers in farmers’ fields boosts the nutritional value of an important food a crop. Application of two common herbicides to several varieties of sweet corn significantly increased the amount of key nutrients termed carotenoids in the corn kernels

8 Jul 2009