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Toxic Chemicals Exceed Federally Recommended Safety Levels in Public Drinking Water Supplies in the U.S.

Levels of a widely used class of industrial chemicals linked with cancer and other health problems--polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)--exceed federally recommended safety levels in public drinking water supplies for six million people in the U.S., according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

10 Aug 2016

Reinforcing the Important Cycle of Reducing Emissions and Improving Technology

During the United Nations climate talks in Paris in December 2015, 195 nations along with the EU drafted an agreement to address climate change by meeting nationally determined emissions-reduction targets.

9 Aug 2016

New Operating Committee Aims to Elevate Rice Research to Improve Energy and Environmental Sustainability

Rice’s Energy and Environment Initiative is reaching out to university faculty for new ideas about interdisciplinary research collaborations that could attract significant government and industry support.

9 Aug 2016

Turning Straw into Gold?

What should we run our cars with in the future? The need for an alternative to fossil fuels is an issue that is elaborated heatedly all over the world.

9 Aug 2016

NASA Selects Five Green Technology Ideas to Transform Aviation Industry

Five green technology ideas that could transform the aviation industry in the coming years have been selected by NASA. These ideas could change the aviation industry by minimizing aircraft fuel use and emissions.

8 Aug 2016

New Metabolic Technology Could Reduce Cost and Environmental Impact of Biofuel Production

Liquid biofuels are increasingly being used across the globe, either as an additive that helps to reduce carbon emissions or as a direct “drop-in” substitute for gasoline. A research team from MIT and the Cambridge startup Novogy has developed a new microbial engineering technique that may considerably reduce the environmental impact and cost of creating biochemicals and liquid biofuels as substitutes to petroleum-based products.

8 Aug 2016

Research Data Helps Study Impact of Hydrocarbons on Unique Marine Creatures

Despite names that are easily recognizable – Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon – the records show that the number and volume of oil spills has been declining for years.

8 Aug 2016

Envergent Technologies Begins Construction on Renewable Fuels Facility in Quebec

Envergent Technologies LLC, a joint venture of Honeywell UOP and Ensyn Corp., announced today that it has begun construction on a renewable fuels facility in Port Cartier, Quebec.

5 Aug 2016

Researchers Create First-Ever Map of Key Regions of Submarine Groundwater Discharge

Researchers have uncovered previously hidden sources of ocean pollution along more than 20 percent of America’s coastlines.

5 Aug 2016

Climate Change Threatens to Expose Harmful Waste at Abandoned Camp

Climate change is threatening to expose hazardous waste at an abandoned camp thought to be buried forever in the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research out of York University has found.

5 Aug 2016

Researchers Find Porites Corals’ Remarkable Ability to Counteract Global Climate Change

Because the oceans absorb man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, its pH declines. Effects of this chemical change on tropical coral reefs can be examined in laboratory or short-term field experiments.

5 Aug 2016

Oxygen-Assisted Aluminum/Carbon Dioxide Electrochemcial Cell Sequesters CO2 and Generate Electricity

While the human race will always leave its carbon footprint on the Earth, it must continue to find ways to lessen the impact of its fossil fuel consumption.

5 Aug 2016

Common Type of Blue-Green Algae Adapt to Earth's Rising CO2 Levels

A common type of blue-green algae seems to be easily adapting itself to the Earth's rising CO2 levels. Some of the many toxin-producing varieties of blue-green algae are found to be managing climatic change much better than suspected.

5 Aug 2016

Researchers Develop Materials that Produce Fuels by Consuming Carbon Dioxide

Although the concept of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into stored energy sounds like science fiction, researchers have continually tried to find simple techniques to transform CO2 into fuels or other functional chemicals.

4 Aug 2016

Riparian Buffer Zones Help Remove Excess Nitrogen from Agricultural Runoff

The surplus nitrogen that flows out from agricultural runoff enters the surface waters, and as a result leads to destructive outcomes. Some of the devastating effects include fish kills and algal blooms.

4 Aug 2016