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New Research Reveals Upwelling Pathways of Deep, Overturning Waters in Southern Ocean

Since Captain James Cook's discovery in the 1770s that water encompassed the Earth's southern latitudes, oceanographers have been studying the Southern Ocean, its physics, and how it interacts with global water circulation and the climate.

27 Sep 2017

Superhydrophilic Membrane Effectively Used to Clean Fluids for Reuse

According to researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute at Swansea University in partnership with researchers at Rice University, a new superhydrophilic filter has exhibited the ability to remove greater than 90% of hydrocarbons, as well as all bacteria and particulates from contaminated water produced by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations at shale oil and gas wells.

26 Sep 2017

Thin Film Solar Energy Could be the Ideal Mobile Energy Solution

China’s largest thin-film solar cell producer, Hanergy Holding Group, announced the signing of a strategic deal with a bike-sharing company MTbike. Under the partnership, Hanergy will incorporate thin-film solar panels into the body of over ten million bicycles in the next three years to fulfill the electricity requirement of their smart lock systems.

25 Sep 2017

Carbon Crisis Highlights Need to Move Quickly Towards Low-Carbon World

There is an expert warning that says that we have to quickly move towards a low-carbon world, if we are to have any opportunity of limiting global warming to 2 °C this century.

25 Sep 2017

Researchers Discover No-Till is Insufficient to Improve Water Quality

A long-debated agricultural question on whether no-tillage alone is adequate for preventing water pollution from nitrate has been answered by a new IUPUI study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the answer is no.

25 Sep 2017

Researchers Manage to Quantify Time Limit for Ultrafast Perovskite Solar Cells

Researchers have managed to quantify the astoundingly high speeds at which solar cells of the future would have to work so as to stretch what are currently seen as natural limits on their energy conversion efficacy.

22 Sep 2017

MIT Professor Explains How Climate Change Could Lead to Increase in Storm Strength

In a detailed talk about the history and the underlying physics of hurricanes and tropical cyclones, MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel yesterday explained why climate change will cause such storms to become much stronger and reach peak intensity further north, heightening their potential impacts on human lives in coming years.

22 Sep 2017

New Biomaterial Aimed at Replacing Plastic Laminates and Reducing Pollution

Researchers at Penn State have developed an economical biomaterial that can be used to sustainably replace plastic barrier coatings in packaging and numerous other applications. The researchers predict its implementation would significantly reduce pollution.

21 Sep 2017

Safe Carbon Dioxide Storage Test Beneficial for Leading Research Project

A new technique that cost-effectively monitors the safe storage of industrial greenhouse gas emissions is to be adopted by a leading research project.

21 Sep 2017

How Silkworms Spin Silk Could Pave Way to Greener Methods of Creating Synthetic Fibers

According to academics at the University of Sheffield, new information about how animals spin silk could pave the way to new, greener methods of creating synthetic fibers.

20 Sep 2017

New Research Advances Battery Technology

Assistant Professor Yang Yang’s research team at the University of Central Florida has developed two potential energy storage technologies in its work with sustainable energy systems.

20 Sep 2017

New System for Efficient Production, Storage and Safe Transportation of Hydrogen

A team of scientists from the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, the Institute of Chemical Technology of the Universitat Politècnica de València-CSIC, and the University of Zaragoza, coordinated by Professor José Antonio Mata of the UJI, have created and patented an innovative process for efficient production, storage and safe transportation of hydrogen for use in fuel cells via the use of chemical reagents.

19 Sep 2017

PEF Process Effective for Removing Atrazine and its By-Products in Surface Water

Widely used as a weedkiller, atrazine is known to negatively affect aquatic wildlife and poses a risk to human health by altering the action of particular hormones.

19 Sep 2017

New Developments Could Create Fully Integrated Solar-Driven CO2-Reduction Devices

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the power of photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide into alcohols and fuels at efficiencies far greater than plants.

19 Sep 2017

Combining Microbial and Electrochemical Biomass Conversion to Yield Valuable Products

Scientists from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Tübingen, Cornell University, and Deutsche Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ) have now demonstrated that valuable products can be obtained by integrating electrochemical and microbial biomass conversion processes.

19 Sep 2017