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Health Food Retailer Targets 150,000-Tree Environmental Pledge

One of the UK’s biggest independent online health food specialist retailers has launched a project that could see 150,000 trees planted in Africa over the next 12 months.

28 Oct 2021

New Organics Recycling Program Allows Cortec® Corporation to Use Its Own Compostable Bags!

Cortec® Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of its new organics recycling program at Cortec® global headquarters near Saint Paul, Minnesota!

From Cortec® Corporation 28 Oct 2021

MITEI Awards Seed Fund Grants to Seven Novel Energy Research Projects

Awards support research to improve the efficiency, scalability, and adoption of clean energy technologies.

27 Oct 2021

SwRI-Developed Connected and Automated Vehicle Technology Wins R&D 100 Award

Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology developed by Southwest Research Institute to help passenger and fleet vehicles reduce energy consumption was recognized by R&D World as one of the 100 most significant innovations of 2021.

27 Oct 2021

Novel Battery Technology Could Power a Self-Sustaining Device for Detecting Fever

Public temperature checks have become a common practice across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, and researchers at Texas A&M University are working to make it possible to conduct the test across a large group of people quicker and less expensive than current methods.

27 Oct 2021

Researcher Seeks to Improve Climate Models for Future Water Projections

According to a wider scientific consensus, the western part of the United States will have less water and the northeastern United States will have more due to climate change.

27 Oct 2021

Fossil Rivers Show Why People Migrated Away from Nile Valley 10,000 Years Ago

People who lived near the Nile river migrated to central Egypt 10,000 years ago, despite the fact that the Egyptian Sahara was still green.

27 Oct 2021

Exponential Power Acquires Dry Creek Enterprises

Exponential Power, Inc., a leading provider of stored power solutions, announced that it has joined forces with Bakersfield, California-based Dry Creek Enterprises.

26 Oct 2021

Methane Emissions Across U.S. Cities are 2 to 10 Times Higher than Recent Estimates

Methane emissions from the distribution and use of natural gas across U.S. cities are 2 to 10 times higher than recent estimates from the Environmental Protect Agency, according to a new study from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

26 Oct 2021

China Needs to Take Responsibility for Developing Sustainable International Trade, Economists Say

As the world grapples with reducing atmospheric greenhouse gas, other serious global environmental problems emerge – such as how to feed China's burgeoning population without warming the planet.

26 Oct 2021

Hybrid Thermoelectrochemical-Concentration Cell Efficiently Converts Waste Heat into Energy

Thanks to the ongoing digital revolution, we are on the verge of transitioning to a hyper-connected world. However, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and remote sensors that promise such a reality require energy.

26 Oct 2021

Climate Change: A Major Cause Affecting Rain in the U.S. Corn Belt

According to a new study by scientists from Penn State, air humidity is highly significant compared to soil moisture in affecting whether it rains in the U.S. Corn Belt—an agricultural region located in the Midwest, extending from Indiana to Nebraska, and accountable for over 35% of the most essential grain crop in the world.

26 Oct 2021