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Spire to Build Turnkey Solar Cell Production Plant for Hanwha Chemical

Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing turnkey production lines and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules worldwide, today announced that Spire has been awarded a contract to provide a Spi-Line 30C complete turnkey factory to produce up to 30 megawatts (MW) per year of high efficiency solar cells for Hanwha Chemical Corporation

28 Oct 2008

Global Warming Causes Devastating Effect on Coral and Fish

Research work reported on recently by an international research team1, including an IRD scientist, brought out evidence of the impact on the fish communities of a mass bleaching event resulting from the 1997-1998 El Niño climatic episode

28 Oct 2008

ORGANICS Recycled Leather Introduced by Eastern Textiles

Eastern Textiles has recently introduced the first "recycled leather" product, ORGANICS, to interior design firms, furniture manufacturers and a variety of unique specialty markets in the United States

28 Oct 2008

Joint Venture Wind Energy Plant for China

The Timken Company today announced that its new joint venture broke ground on a new wind energy plant to be built in China

28 Oct 2008

New Miniature Sensor for Detecting Greenhouse Gases

New European consortium, led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, is developing a miniature gas sensor to detect greenhouse gases

28 Oct 2008

PANalytical Thanked for Sponsoring Environmental Education Program

PANalytical is pleased to report that two students, Barbara Terlouw and Robin van der Bles, have completed a week-long expedition to Spitsbergen, Norway. The company sponsored this environmental program as part of its ongoing support of activities that stimulate interest in the sciences

28 Oct 2008

Roads Mean Death to Endangered Forest Elephants

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Save the Elephants that says endangered forest elephants are avoiding roadways at all costs

28 Oct 2008

Industrial Environmental Pollution Influence on Childhood Health

Children are exposed to a wide range of environmental threats that can affect their health and development early in life, throughout their youth and into adulthood

27 Oct 2008

New Approach May Lead to Easier Recycling of Electronic Gadgets

A new approach to creating the fastenings and tabs for electronic devices based on the shape-memory effect in plastics could mean that disassembling such devices at end of life could be automated

27 Oct 2008

Understanding the Secrets Within Planets Could Lead to the Fusion Energy Clean Energy Solution

Research that has provided a deeper understanding into the centre of planets could also provide the way forward in the world’s quest for cleaner energy

27 Oct 2008

Arctic Sea Ice Receeding and Getting Thinner

Last winter, the thickness of sea ice in large parts of the Arctic fell by nearly half a metre (19 per cent) compared with the average thickness of the previous five winters. This followed the dramatic 2007 summer low when Arctic ice extent dropped to its lowest level since records began

27 Oct 2008