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Lawnmower Device that Reduces Harmful Emissions Wins National Sustainable Development Award

A team of University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering students won a national sustainable development award last week for creating a device that drastically reduces harmful emissions from lawnmowers.

14 Oct 2015

IPCC Projections About Future Warming are ‘Wildly Over Optimistic,’ says Climate Expert

As a new chairman is appointed to the Intergovernmental Panel on climate Change (IPCC) a University of Manchester climate expert has said headline projections from the organisation about future warming are ‘wildly over optimistic.’

14 Oct 2015

New Report Examines Global Market for Solar PV Plus Energy Storage Nanogrids

A new report from Navigant Research examines the global market for solar photovoltaics (PV) plus energy storage nanogrids, including an analysis of market issues, with forecasts for capacity and revenue, through 2024.

14 Oct 2015

NREL's Comfort Suite Reveals Connection Between Human Comfort and Energy Systems

On a typical early fall morning in Golden, Colorado, the temperature outside was about 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Tucked inside a unique structure at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), two volunteers felt considerably cooler than that, but would soon be pushed past the outdoor conditions. The volunteers were participating in an experiment inside NREL's newly constructed Comfort Suite (C-Suite) designed to reveal the connection between human comfort and energy systems.

From National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) 14 Oct 2015

Experts to Urge Political Leaders to Address Threat of Thawing Permafrost in the Arctic

Three leading Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) experts on the threats of climate change in the Arctic will urge France's President Hollande and other political leaders to address the threat posed by thawing permafrost in the Arctic at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 15.

14 Oct 2015

ET Solar, WEG Partner to Deliver Turnkey PV Solutions for Growing Brazilian Market

ET Solar, a leading smart energy solutions provider, through its Latin American subsidiary, ET Solar Chile, announces today it has formed a consortium with WEG (Bovespa: WEGE3 / OTC: WEGZY), one of Brazil's most prestigious industrial companies. The consortium will deliver professional, turnkey PV solutions for the growing Brazilian market.

13 Oct 2015

“Bridge” Fuel May Not Have Been Accounted for While Measuring Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Emissions

While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests there has been a decline in measurable atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel use in the U.S. for the past seven years, a Cornell scientist says the EPA’s computation may be in error – by a wide margin – due to problematic accounting for natural gas, the so-called “bridge” fuel.

13 Oct 2015

New Report on Powering Innovation for a Sustainable Future

An association of the world's leading electricity firms today lit a picture of a future high-tech enabled world energy mix that would help nations meet climate-related CO2 reduction pledges and the expanding demand for electricity.

13 Oct 2015

Amazon Would Confront More Hydrological Extremes, Concludes Study

A new paper co-authored by WHRC scientists Philip Duffy and Paulo Brando evaluates the accuracy of current climate models and uses them to project future drought and wet periods in the Amazon. They conclude that the whole of the Amazon will confront more hydrological extremes, and that most of the region will experience much more frequent and extensive drought. These changes would have profound implications for forest structure, composition, biomass, and carbon emissions.

13 Oct 2015

EnviroMission, Q Analytica Enter JV to Commercialise Solar Tower Renewable Energy Technology in MENA

EnviroMission Limited has executed a Heads of Agreements (HOA) with Q Analytica LLC (QA), to form a Joint Venture that will operate to commercialise EnviroMission's Solar Tower renewable energy technology in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

From EnviroMission Limited 13 Oct 2015

Waste Generated in Africa Could Help Produce 122.2TWh Electricity in 2025

Estimated electricity production from the total waste generated in Africa could reach 122.2 TWh in 2025, or more than 20% of the electricity consumed in 2010 at continental level (661.5TWh), according to a JRC co-authored study which analysed the potential of urban solid waste for Africa’s electricity needs.

13 Oct 2015

New Research Suggests Horn of Africa Will Become Even Drier

The Horn of Africa has become increasingly arid in sync with the global and regional warming of the last century and at a rate unprecedented in the last 2,000 years, according to new research led by a University of Arizona geoscientist.

12 Oct 2015

Researchers Warn About Hazards of Marine Plastic Pollution on Sea Turtles

A new global review led by the University of Exeter that set out to investigate the hazards of marine plastic pollution has warned that all seven species of marine turtles can ingest or become entangled in the discarded debris that currently litters the oceans.

12 Oct 2015

Understanding Carbon Cycles Adds Value to Knowledge Base of Climate Change

Making predictions about climate variability often means looking to the past to find trends. Now paleoclimate researchers from the University of Missouri have found clues in exposed bedrock alongside an Alabama highway that could help forecast climate variability. In their study, the researchers verified evidence suggesting carbon dioxide decreased significantly at the end of the Ordovician Period, 450 million years ago, preceding an ice age and eventual mass extinction. These results will help climatologists better predict future environmental changes

12 Oct 2015

Study Reveals Mercury Methylation Genes are Abundant in Nearly Every Oxygen-Free Environment

Thawing permafrost and contaminated sediment in marine coastal areas pose some of the greatest risks for the production of highly toxic methylmercury, according to findings published in the journal Science Advances.

12 Oct 2015