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New Financing Mechanism Makes Residential Energy Improvements More Accessible to Homeowners

Boynton Beach and Lake Clarke Shores have become the first municipalities in Palm Beach County to make the HERO Program available to local residents.

14 Oct 2016

Sodexo Plans to Reduce Carbon Emissions by 34% at Food Service and Facilities Management Sites by 2025

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life services, is making major reductions in both waste and carbon emissions at the facilities, cafés, sport and leisure venues and other food service sites where it operates.

14 Oct 2016

SANY to Expand Wind Power Business Globally

SANY Group has made a history when they exported their five 2.0 MW wind turbines to the Ralls Wind Farm in the United States.

14 Oct 2016

New Study Shows China as Largest Emitter of Certain Toxic Fluorinated Chemicals in the World

China is today the largest emitter of certain toxic fluorinated chemicals in the world, as presented in a new study published in Environmental Science and Technology.

13 Oct 2016

CleanSpark to Showcase Renewable Energy Technologies at Two Microgrid Conferences this Month

Stratean, the developer of a patented and revolutionary "stratified" downdraft gasifier, today announced that CleanSpark, LLC, Stratean's wholly owned subsidiary, will showcase its renewable energy technologies at two major microgrid conferences during October.

13 Oct 2016

More Deforestation Happening in Brazil than Official Accounts Suggest, New Study Finds

Efforts by the Brazilian government over the past 15 years to curb deforestation have been a widely celebrated success, but a new study finds that there’s more deforestation happening in Brazil than official accounts suggest.

13 Oct 2016

Scientists Working to Understand Atmospheric Pollutants to Better Predict Future of Arctic Region

In pictures, the Arctic appears pristine and timeless with its barren lands and icy landscape. In reality, the area is rapidly changing.

13 Oct 2016

Scientists Report New Ways to Understand, Integrate Stories of Sustainability Challenges

Just as there are two sides to every story, sustainability challenges have at least two stories to reach every solution. Scientists report new ways to understand and integrate those tales.

13 Oct 2016

New Study Paints More Nuanced Picture of Central Asia's Desertification

A new study chronicles how central Asia dried out over the last 23 million years into one of the most arid regions on the planet. The findings illustrate the dramatic climatic shifts wrought by the ponderous rise of new mountain ranges over geologic time.

13 Oct 2016

Scientists Relate Shrinking of Antarctic Ice Sheet to Increase in CO2 Levels

Around 23 million years ago, the Antarctic Ice Sheet started to shrink to about half of its modern size. Although computer models showed that an increase in CO2 levels could be the reason, the evidence remained elusive until now.

12 Oct 2016

Gevo Completes Production of World’s First Cellulosic Renewable Jet Fuel for Commercial Flights

Gevo, Inc., announced today that it has completed production of the world’s first cellulosic renewable jet fuel that is specified for commercial flights.

12 Oct 2016

Iowa’s Largest Utility-Scale Solar Power Generation Project Installed with Solar FlexRack Racking Solution

Solar FlexRack™, a division of Northern States Metals and an innovative leader in photovoltaic mounting and tracking solutions, announced today the largest utility-scale solar power generation project in Iowa, a 2.3MW plant (the largest of the series which will include 5 systems and total 5.5MW) is installed with the smartest racking solution available, the best-in-class G3 Fixed Tilt system.

12 Oct 2016

Lockheed Martin, CoGen Team Up to Pursue Additional Bioenergy Projects in the U.K.

Lockheed Martin has signed a teaming agreement with CoGen Limited to develop energy-from-waste projects in the United Kingdom, starting with a new plant in Cardiff, Wales.

12 Oct 2016

RNRG Delivers SRA System to Reduce Solar Resource Uncertainty at Panama Project

Renewable NRG Systems (RNRG), a designer and manufacturer of decision support tools for the global renewable energy industry, announced today the supply of solar resource assessment (SRA) system to Ventus Ingeniería to reduce solar irradiance uncertainty at a project in Panama.

11 Oct 2016

TAU Researchers Discover Algae can Yield Mass Quantities of Hydrogen

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that algae can yield mass quantities of hydrogen, which is considered the world's cleanest energy source.

7 Oct 2016