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Methane Gas From Landfill to Generate Electricity Near Seattle

King County, Puget Sound Energy and Bio Energy-Washington, are joining forces to turn the public's garbage into natural gas - an innovation that will generate enough electricity to power an estimated 24,000 homes in the area while at the same time cutting greenhouse-gas emissions and creating green jobs

6 Apr 2009

Latest NASA Data Shows Arctic Sea Ice Is Disappearing

The latest data from NASA and the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center show the continuation of a decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice extent in the Arctic, including new evidence for thinning ice as well

6 Apr 2009

Monitoring System Helps Concrete Producers Get Greener

Fortrans Inc. announces a self-contained pH control and monitoring system that uses CO2 gas to neutralize high pH process water produced at ready mixed concrete plants

6 Apr 2009

Energy Efficient Retrofit for Empire State Building

World's most famous office building's more than $500 million upgrade program to incorporate comprehensive project with goal to reduce energy use by nearly 40 percent

6 Apr 2009

Forecast Report Released into the Worldwide Electric Vehicle Market

Worldwide Nanotechnology Electric Vehicle EV Market Shares Strategies and Forecasts 2009 to 2015 report released

6 Apr 2009

Climate Change Message Being Taken to the Top of Mount Everest

A sherpa set off to climb Mount Everest for a record 19th time to take an anti-climate change message to the world’s highest peak

6 Apr 2009

Farming is a Business and What is the Better Strategy - Conventional Cropping or Organic?

The rise in organic cropping has led agronomists at the University of Wisconsin to study whether or not it can be as profitable for farmers as monocropping systems, and they were able to conclude that governmental policy supporting mono-culture is outdated and should be shifted to promote organic farming practices

6 Apr 2009

Business Students Win With Plan to Clean Up Polluted Water in India

Small textile firms that dominate the industry in South India cannot afford traditional wastewater treatment, so they simply dump toxin-filled water into the local rivers. That's the problem that a team of University of Virginia business students has a plan to solve. And their plan has been getting some validation recently

6 Apr 2009

State of the Art Lab to Make Non-Woven Fabrics to Protect People and the Environment

The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech University introduced a new, state-of-the-art fabric laboratory to help researchers continue creating products that can protect both military and civilian populations

6 Apr 2009

Study of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Shows Fragile State of Coral Around the World

A new study by researchers from UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) sheds light on how threats to the world's endangered coral reef ecosystems can be more effectively managed

6 Apr 2009

Swinburne University and Suntech Power to Develop Solar Cells That Are Twice as Efficient But Half the Current Cost

The Swinbourne University and Suntech will collaborate to develop solar cells that are twice as efficient and run at half the cost of those currently available

6 Apr 2009

Spire Semiconductor Wins Contract to Develop Highly Efficient Solar Cells

Spire Semiconductor, LLC, has been awarded an 18-month, $3,706,359 program by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop next-generation manufacturing technology to produce 42% efficient III-V three junction tandem concentrator solar cells

6 Apr 2009

Research Team Looks For New Way to Make Hydrogen By Splitting Water With Sunlight

Weizmann Institute scientists have identified a new mode of bond generation between oxygen atoms. This work is a step toward development of an efficient artificial catalyst for solar-driven splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen, which is a major goal of renewable, clean energy research

6 Apr 2009

Satellite Data Shows Arctic Ice Cover is Shrinking and Thinning

The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing

6 Apr 2009

Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Oil Shown to be Higher Than Expected

Today, a leading national advocate for advanced biofuels released a new study showing that the production and use of a gallon of oil releases more climate change emissions than previously believed

6 Apr 2009