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Plant Researchers Use Ultraviolet LEDs To Grow Healthier Lettuce

Salad dressing aside, a pile of spinach has more nutritional value than a wedge of iceberg lettuce. That's because darker colors in leafy vegetables are often signs of antioxidants that are thought to have a variety of health benefits. Now a team of plant physiologists has developed a way to make lettuce darker and redder—and therefore healthier—using ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs)

18 May 2009

Review of Anti-Infectives Contamination of Water

Anti-infectives have become environmental contaminants of growing concern, as they are transported from landfills, agriculture and urban centers into waterways and drinking water, according to a review article published in the May 2009 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP)

18 May 2009

Study Shows Polar Bears Under Danger From Climate Change

Forecasts of polar bear populations and their likely responses to climate change have been strengthened by a new publication that refutes criticisms of the scientific basis for listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Ac

18 May 2009

Atmospheric Scientist Talks About Efforts to Protect The Ozone Layer

Mack McFarland, DuPont chief atmospheric scientist, was an active participant in the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer. In a recent interview he gave insights into what the refrigerant choices of the future will be

18 May 2009

Carbon Footprint of Concrete May Be Smaller Than Originally Thought As It Reabsorbs CO2

A new study suggests that concrete reabsorbs atmospheric carbon lowering concrete's overall carbon footprint

18 May 2009

Shipping Companies Could Make More Money By Cutting Emission

Shipping – responsible for almost three percent of global emissions but not so far covered by any emissions reduction agreements – could reduce its climate impact by at least one fifth at a negative cost to the industry, a new International Maritime Organisation (IMO) report has shown

18 May 2009

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Street Cleaning Vehicle Keeping the Roads of Basel Tidy

Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have, together with Bucher Schoerling, Proton Motor, BRUSA Elektronik AG und Messer Schweiz, developed a hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle which was presented to the public in Basel

18 May 2009

Environmental Cleanup Agreement for Radiation at High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the N.Y. State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) have agreed on a final cleanup action for the inactive High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

18 May 2009

Air Fuelled Battery For A New Generation of Electric Cars, Mobile Phones and Laptop Computers

A new type of air-fuelled battery could give up to ten times the energy storage of designs currently available.This step-change in capacity could pave the way for a new generation of electric cars, mobile phones and laptops

18 May 2009

Thin Film Photovoltaics Research to Make Solar Power Cheaper and Easier

Cost is one of the main disadvantages of the use of renewable energies. Through the thesis "Preparation and study of thin films for photovoltaic applications" presented at the Universitat Jaume I, Teodor Krassimirov is aiming to make the development of efficient solar panels easier and cheaper

18 May 2009