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Ocean Currents and Their Role in Transporting Carbon Dioxide and Dampening Climate Change

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is responsible for transporting a substantial fraction of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere to the deep ocean, thereby effectively damping the rate of global warming

24 Nov 2008

Bright, Efficient LED Lighting from OSRAM for 2010 Ford Mustang

Along with the 2010 Mustang's distinctive rear combination taillamps, OSRAM supplied the complete exterior package including the fog lamps, LED CHMSL, front and rear side marker lamps and the D3S XENON headlamp

24 Nov 2008

Going Green Now Includes IT Infrastructure at Buck Institute

Green technology now includes information technology infrastructure. The Buck Institute for Age Research has received LEED for Commercial Interiors Silver certification for a build out of new laboratory space, including an Innovation in Design Credit for Information Technology Infrastructure

24 Nov 2008

Food Companies Not Passing on Savings as Oil and Corn Prices Plummet

While millions of Americans give thanks for lower gasoline prices this Thanksgiving holiday, they won’t be voicing gratitude for the higher price of a typical Thanksgiving dinner

24 Nov 2008

Turning Waste into Fuel With Catalyst and Reactor Technologies

Velocys now owns, or has licences to, the largest microchannel reactor patent portfolio in the world

24 Nov 2008

"Green" Electricity to Help Meet 2050 UK Carbon Emissions Target

Extensive use of low-carbon "green" electricity could help the UK dramatically cut its carbon emissions by 2050, say the leaders of a new research programme to be announced this week at Imperial College London....

24 Nov 2008

Mining Company Breaks Bedrock, Destroys River and Gets Environmental Award

Peabody Energy' s Metropolitan Mine has earned a New South Wales (NSW) Minerals Council Environmental Excellence Award that has been heavily criticised by environmentalists

24 Nov 2008

Satellite Imaging of Light Pollution Being Used to Identify Threatened Coral Reefs

Researchers are using satellite images of lights at night to identify the most threatened and most pristine coral reefs in an objective and easily repeatable way

24 Nov 2008

MIT Researchers Find Way to Make Solar Cells More Efficient

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT

24 Nov 2008

Lead Levels in Christmas Lights Found to be Dangerously High

New Research shows that Christmas light sets contain such high levels of lead that they exceed limits set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

24 Nov 2008

Nanotechnology Experiments Leads to Low Cost Solar Cells That Make Themselves

Researchers has shown that the corkscrew like polymer gyroid structure can be used to self-assemble into a low-cost photovoltaic cell

24 Nov 2008

Western North Carolina to Get World's Largest Solar Thermal Project for Heating and Cooling

Acquisition is expected to put Western North Carolina on the map as the sustainability capital of the U.S., with new company's immediate focus to own and operate $14 million worth of solar installations in North Carolina

24 Nov 2008

Best Green Exterior Product GOes to Millenia Retaining Walls

Millenia Wall Solutions wins readers' choice award for Best Green Building Products

24 Nov 2008

Generating Energy from Slow Flowing Currents by Thinking Like a Fish

Low-moving ocean and river currents could be a new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source. A University of Michigan engineer has made a machine that works like a fish to turn potentially destructive vibrations in fluid flows into clean, renewable power

24 Nov 2008

Pollution of Freshwater Costing at Least $4.3 Billion Every Year

Kansas State University researchers found that freshwater pollution by phosphorous and nitrogen costs government agencies, drinking water facilities and individual Americans at least $4.3 billion annually.

24 Nov 2008