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Hyundai Unveils Environmentally Friendly Initiatives

Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea's largest automaker, today revealed the logo for its new eco-friendly sub-brand, Blue Drive, an initiative which brings a host of new eco-friendly technologies and models to the global market

25 Mar 2009

Economical, Environmentally Friendly Process Developed to Convert Algae into Biodiesel

Chemists are reporting development of what they termed the first economical, eco-friendly process to convert algae oil into biodiesel fuel — a discovery they predict could one day lead to U.S. independence from petroleum as a fuel

25 Mar 2009

Siemens Expands Solar Thermal Power Abilities

Siemens Energy to acquire a 28 percent stake in the Italian solar company Archimede Solar Energy and expand solar thermal power plant technology

25 Mar 2009

Linde Takes the Wraps Off Ground Breaking Hydrogen Car Fuelling Technology

Linde North America is introducing ground-breaking technology that provides a safe, fast and efficient way to fuel hydrogen vehicles

25 Mar 2009

New Environmentally Friendly LED Lighting Products to be Developed and Marketed by Lightscape Materials

Lightscape Materials has secured $3 Million in Series A funding from Wisepower Co. LTD and Foosung HDS Co. LTD to develop and market components for a breakthrough, green-friendly Light-Emitting Diode (LED) light bulb and a variety of other phosphor light products for new lighting applications

25 Mar 2009

Human Medicines Found in Fish Caught in Several U.S. Waterways

Baylor University researchers, working with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, have detected low-level residues of several human medications and personal care products in fish collected from effluent-dominated rivers, including the residue of one pharmaceutical in wild fish that has not been previously reported

25 Mar 2009

Search On For Biosolutions to Climate Change Problems

Global environment organization WWF and leading enzyme biotechnology company Novozymes today announced an initiative which will map how and where low carbon biosolutions can eliminate the first strategic billion tonnes of CO2

25 Mar 2009

Carbon Pollution Needs Agressive Cap to Reduce Global Warming

Overwhelming scientific evidence supports reducing carbon pollution that causes global warming as much as possible and as quickly as possible

25 Mar 2009

GEMs Database Helping Chemists Develop Green Chemistry

A database designed to "build community" and reduce barriers when adopting green chemistry has doubled in size in the last two years

25 Mar 2009

Nuclear Materials Tracked and Monitored Using New RFID Technology

Scientists from U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a unique tracking technology that also monitors the environmental and physical conditions of containers of nuclear materials in storage and transportation

25 Mar 2009

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Gets $1.6 Million DoE Grant to Develop Faster, Cheaper Fuel Cells

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have won a $1.6 million DoE grant to develop new methods for manufacturing a key fuel cell component. The multi-year grant aims to create new technology and processes for faster, more cost-effective manufacturing of fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies

25 Mar 2009

Environmentally Friendly Hair Bleach Developed in Japan

Scientists from Japan are reporting development of what could be the world’s first "green" hair bleach, an environmentally friendly preparation for lightening the color of hair on the head and other parts of the body without the unwanted effects of the bleaches used by millions of people each year

25 Mar 2009

Ecotourism the Key to Stopping Deforestation of the Amazon

Responsible ecotourism in the Amazon tributary of the Aripuana River, could help reduce deforestation and help to protect one in ten of the world's species

25 Mar 2009

Pyramids to Go Dark For Earth Hour

The Sphinx and the Great Pyramids of Giza, icons of ancient splendor, will stand as modern day symbols for action on climate change as they become the most ancient of numerous monuments to go dark for Earth Hour

24 Mar 2009

Researchers Use Nanotechnology to Boost the Efficiency of Solar Cells

Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that boosts the light absorption of silicon photovoltaic cells in two complementary ways

24 Mar 2009