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80 Percent Endorse Using Incentives to Promote Carbon-Free Energy Technologies

Nearly 80 percent of Americans endorse the use of federal financial incentives to help promote development of carbon-free energy technologies, including new nuclear power plants, according to a new national survey of 1,000 adults.

25 Apr 2008

Turning Citrus Fruit Waste into Ethanol

Xethanol Corporation, a renewable energy company, today announced its subsidiary Southeast Biofuels LLC has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

25 Apr 2008

Discovery of Ocean Currents Could Dramatically Improve Forecasts of Climate

An international collaborative of scientists led by Peter Niiler, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and Nikolai Maximenko, a researcher at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, has detected the presence of crisscrossing patterns of currents running throughout the world's oceans.

25 Apr 2008

DuPont Crop R+D Leader Discusses Pioneer Hi-Bred Biotechnology Leadership

DuPont partnerships with China's public and private sectors will help increase farm productivity in the country and increase total global supply of key agricultural products, William S. Niebur, vice president -- DuPont Crop Genetics Research and Development, told attendees at the "Globalization of the Seed Industry" Biotechnology and Agriculture Summit here today.

25 Apr 2008

Bringing Green Thinking to NYC for Earth Day 2008

Fred J. Dufek, President/CEO and Managing Director of e-Green Management, LLC, announced today that the Company has celebrated a successful Earth Day 2008, Tuesday, April 22, 2008, in New York's prime commercial district and is proud to have been invited to perform as a "Green" service provider for The Rockefeller Group.

25 Apr 2008

Leaving Environmental Monitoring to the Plants

In a forthcoming special issue of the Inderscience publication, the International Journal of Environment and Pollution (2008, Volume 32, Issue 4), researchers from various fields explain how living organisms can be used to track the dispersal of atmospheric pollutants, particulates, and trace elements.

25 Apr 2008

The First U.S. Gaming Corporation to Receive an Environmental Quality Award

Green is not just the color of money at Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. It's also the way the company operates.

25 Apr 2008

Full-Service Approach to the Green Renovation + Construction Markets

MyHome, LLC announced today it will apply its trademark full-service approach to the green renovation and construction markets. This means designing, supplying, and installing every part of a (NYC) green building project in a market that has traditionally been divided by niche service providers.

25 Apr 2008

Richer Plant Diversity Significantly Enhances an Ecosystem's Productivity

In the first experiment involving a natural environment, scientists at Brown University have shown that richer plant diversity significantly enhances an ecosystem's productivity. The finding underscores the benefits of biodiversity, such as capturing carbon dioxide, a main contributor to global warming.

24 Apr 2008

Companies Investing R$1.66 Billion in Biofuels

BP announced today that it intends to take a 50 per cent stake in Tropical BioEnergia SA, a joint venture established by Brazilian companies Santelisa Vale and Maeda Group, which is constructing a 435 million liter (115 million gallons) a year ethanol refinery in Edeia, Goias State, Brazil.

24 Apr 2008

Wildlife Conservation Society Launches New Study of Musk Ox

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently launched a four-year study to determine if climate change is affecting populations of a quintessential Arctic denizen: the rare musk ox.

24 Apr 2008

CEO Announces Company’s Investment During Presentation at RIT

Xerox Corporation, building on four decades of leadership in advancing environmentally sustainable practices, is committing $2 million to Rochester Institute of Technology to serve as a founding partner of The Golisano Institute for Sustainability. Anne Mulcahy, Xerox chairman and CEO, made the announcement today during a presentation on the RIT campus.

24 Apr 2008

Conditions are Ripe for Another Large Bloom in New England Waters

The end of April usually brings the first signs of harmful algae in New England waters, and this year, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and North Carolina State University (NC State) are preparing for a potentially big bloom.

24 Apr 2008

Much-Discussed Climate Change Mitigation Strategy May Do More Harm Than Good

A much-discussed idea to offset global warming by injecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere would have a drastic impact on Earth's protective ozone layer, new research concludes.

24 Apr 2008

More CO2 Observatories Needed to Quantify Progress in Emission Reductions

Monitoring Earth's rising greenhouse gas levels will require a global data collection network 10 times larger than the one currently in place in order to quantify regional progress in emission reductions, according to a new research commentary by University of Colorado and NOAA researchers appearing in the April 25 issue of Science.

24 Apr 2008