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New Research Questions the Oxygen Theory of Mass Extinction

New research findings question the theory of falling oxygen levels as a mechanism for causing mass extinction events millions of years ago

8 Sep 2008

Ammonia Recovery Facility to be Built in New York City

ThermoEnergy Corporation today announced the signing of a formal agreement with Earth Tech, Inc., part of AECOM one of the worlds largest environmental and infrastructure engineering companies, to act as Construction Manager as well as perform the civil engineering work for the Company's multi-million dollar Ammonia Recovery Process

8 Sep 2008

Light Pollution Assessment Framework Developed by Lighting Research Center

Balancing public and private interests for nighttime lighting has been a difficult undertaking, as too little lighting may increase safety and security issues, while too much lighting may cause problems for the environment and for human well being. Scientists in the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed the first ever comprehensive method for predicting and measuring various aspects of light pollution

8 Sep 2008

New Research Reveals the Simple Truth About How Herbicides are Discovered

As a lesson to teach upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students how herbicides are developed, a new interactive website has been developed by William E. Dyer of Montana State University. The lesson teaches that almost all herbicides on the market today were developed by companies that make dyes, plastics, or other industrial compounds, who simply sprayed their chemicals on plants and the ones that killed the weeds were made into commercial products.

8 Sep 2008

Managing Forests as Carbon Storage Solutions to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Scientists who have determined how much carbon is stored annually in upper Midwest forests hope their findings will be used to accelerate global discussion about the strategy of managing forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions

8 Sep 2008

Enzyme Discovery Could Lead to The Development of New Biofuels

U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has discovered a fundamental shift in an enzyme's function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant based oil products

8 Sep 2008

Pyrenees Glaciers To Disappear In Under 50 Years

Researchers from the University of Cantabria, the Autonomous University of Madrid and Valladolid have produced a summary on the current situation of the Pyrenees, Sierra Nevada and Picos de Europa. Scientists have based their work on how climate change has affected the glaciers since the so-called Little Ice Age (from 1300 to 1860) to conclude that only the Pyrenees has active glaciers left

8 Sep 2008

Does Air Pollution Increase Rainfall

An international team of scientists, headed by Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has come up with a surprising finding to the disputed issue of whether air pollution increases or decreases rainfall

8 Sep 2008

Living Sensor Found That Can Warn of Arsenic Pollution

Scientists studying arsenic pollution have discovered a living sensor that can spot contamination

8 Sep 2008

GoingGreen Award For Flywheel Energy Company, Pentadyne

Pentadyne Power Corporation, the world leader in flywheel energy storage systems, has been named to the 2008 GoingGreen Top 100, which signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities in the green technology industries

8 Sep 2008

Biodiesel Shown to Runs Equal to, if not Better than Petroleum

Propel, a leading retailer of low-carbon renewable fuels and Seattle-based The Essential Baking Company, announce the results of a joint study on the impact of replacing petroleum fuel with biodiesel in the company’s delivery fleet

8 Sep 2008

Nano Sized Gold Works As A Catalyst Cleaning Up Poisonous Carbon Monoxide

For most of us, gold is only valuable if we possess it in large-sized pieces. However, the "bigger is better" rule isn't the case for those interested in exploiting gold's exceptional ability to catalyze a wide variety of chemical reactions, including the oxidation of poisonous carbon monoxide

8 Sep 2008