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Foraging of Insects Boosted by Rising Temperatures

Ellen Currano collecting fossil leaves from a site that is 57 million years old in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.

11 Feb 2008

Significant Changes in Ice Sheet Without Seeing a Change in Front

A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland’s ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.

11 Feb 2008

La Nina Conditions Become Slightly Stronger

The current La Nina event, characterized by a cooling of the sea surface in the central and eastern Equatorial Pacific, has strengthened slightly in recent months and is expected to continue through the first quarter of 2008, with a likelihood of persisting through to the middle of the year.

11 Feb 2008

Cooling of Buildings that Needs Nothing but Wind and Sun

A new approach to the cooling of buildings across the developing world that needs nothing but wind and sun to operate has been devised by engineers in India. Writing in the inaugural issue of Inderscience's International Journal of Sustainable Design, the team explains the concept of a combined solar chimney and wind tower system that can reduce the temperature of incoming appear by 5 degrees Celsius.

11 Feb 2008

ALBIASA Group Promotes Use of Solar Energy with 300 Million Euro Plan

The Basque ALBIASA group has development plans to invest 300 million euros up to 2010 aimed at promoting various photoelectric parks, a thermosolar plant and premises for the manufacture of photoelectric cells.

11 Feb 2008

Coldwater Bleach Helps Conserve Energy

Washing clothes in cold water as a way to save energy and money is a hot topic in households across the country, but the switch from hot to cold often comes at the cost of so-so laundry results and residual stains.

11 Feb 2008

Coral-Killing Synthetics Harm Humans Too

If you care about coral reefs, choose your sunscreen wisely, Florida biochemist Celia Ferreira, Ph.D. advises.

11 Feb 2008

Extracting TiO2 the Efficient Way

From medicine to make-up, plastics to paper - hardly a day goes by when we don't use titanium dioxide.

11 Feb 2008

World's First Zero-Carbon, Zero-Waste City

Abu Dhabi today broke ground on Masdar City, the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car- free city. The global milestone event was marked by the laying of a virtual cornerstone by His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and a visually stunning production depicting life in the city.

10 Feb 2008

Tracking Climate Change by Observing Flowers

A nationwide initiative starting this month will enable volunteers to track climate change by observing the timing of flowers and foliage

9 Feb 2008

Web-Enabled Energy-Saving Technologies

In2 Networks, a developer of Internet-connected utility management systems for consumer and commercial applications, today announced that at this year's International Home Builders' Show the company will unveil its simple and affordable, web-based technology enabling individuals and businesses to control their home or office environment from the Internet.

9 Feb 2008

Company to Retire Older Coal-Fired Power Plants

Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation, proposed today to permanently reduce its generating fleet's greenhouse gas emissions by retiring coal-fired generating units and switching the fuel source of other coal-fired units to natural gas when its proposed Sutherland Generating Station Unit 4 becomes operable in 2013.

9 Feb 2008

Carbon Processing in Rivers is a Bigger Component of Global Carbon Cycling

In the science world, in the media, and recently, in our daily lives, the debate continues over how carbon in the atmosphere is affecting global climate change. Studying just how carbon cycles throughout the Earth is an enormous challenge, but one Northwestern University professor is doing his part by studying one important segment -- rivers.

9 Feb 2008

Scientists Find Unexpected Chemical Behavior on Catalyst Surface

Like two ballroom dancers waltzing together, the two atoms of an oxygen molecule severed by a metal catalyst usually behave identically. But new research reveals that on a particular catalyst, split oxygen atoms act like a couple dancing the tango: one oxygen atom plants itself while the other shimmies away, probably with energy partially stolen from the stationary one.

9 Feb 2008

EPA Increases Overall Volume of Renewable Fuels Blended into Transportation Fuels

EPA is raising the 2008 renewable fuels standard (RFS), which determines how much non-petroleum fuel will power your vehicle, to 7.76 percent. The move is in response to the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), which President Bush signed in December.

8 Feb 2008