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DOE Renews Funding for JCAP Initiative to Harness Solar Energy for Fuel Production

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $75 million in funding to renew the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub originally established in 2010 with the goal of harnessing solar energy for the production of fuel.

30 Apr 2015

Overfishing Increases Threat of Fast-Growing Sponges to Endangered Corals

For reef-building corals, sponges do not make good neighbors. Aggressive competitors for space, sponges use toxins, mucus, shading, and smothering to kill adjacent coral colonies and then grow on their skeletons.

30 Apr 2015

High Levels of Pollution Can Impact Fetal Growth and Development

Exposure to high levels of pollution can have a significant impact on fetal growth and development, that is the conclusion of research appearing today in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

30 Apr 2015

Light Pollution from Coastal Communities Affect Marine Ecosystems

Marine ecosystems can be changed by night-time artificial lighting according to new research published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. The results indicate that light pollution from coastal communities, shipping and offshore infrastructure could be changing the composition of marine invertebrate communities.

29 Apr 2015

Parrotfish Play a Pivotal Role in Maintaining Coral Reef Islands

As well as being a beautiful species capable of changing its colour, shape and even gender, new research published today shows that parrotfish, commonly found on healthy coral reefs, can also play a pivotal role in providing the sands necessary to build and maintain coral reef islands.

29 Apr 2015

Artificially Whitening the Arctic Ocean Surface May Not Result in Substantial Cooling

Some scientists have suggested that global warming could melt frozen ground in the Arctic, releasing vast amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, greatly amplifying global warming.

29 Apr 2015

Some Coral Reefs Managing to Recover

Coral reefs, true reservoirs of biodiversity, are seriously threatened by human activities and climate change. Consequently, their extinction has often been heralded.

29 Apr 2015

Cost of Energy Efficiency Compares Favorably to Cost of New Energy Supply

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have conducted the most comprehensive study yet of the full cost of saving electricity by U.S. utility efficiency programs and now have an answer: 4.6 cents.

29 Apr 2015

Salty Aquifer Below Antarctica's Dry Valleys May Retain Evidence of Ancient Climate Change

Using a novel, helicopter-borne sensor to penetrate below the surface of large swathes of terrain, a team of researchers supported by the National Science Foundation, or NSF, has gathered compelling evidence that beneath the Antarctica ice-free McMurdo Dry Valleys lies a salty aquifer that may support previously unknown microbial ecosystems and retain evidence of ancient climate change.

29 Apr 2015

New Energy Model Examines Link Between Climate, Income Growth, and Air Conditioning Adoption

The continual increase in global incomes means people are living more comfortably, including having the ability to afford air conditioning. Staying cool is good but there's a wealth of fallout. The demand for more "AC" will also cause consumers to use more electricity causing stress on energy prices, infrastructure, and environmental policy, according to a new study.

28 Apr 2015

ORNL Researchers Create Comprehensive 2014 Hydropower Market Report

For the first time, industry and policymakers have a comprehensive report detailing the U.S. hydropower fleet's 2,198 plants that provide about 7 percent of the nation's electricity.

28 Apr 2015

Berkeley Lab, NTU Singapore to Co-Develop Technological Solutions for Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Development

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will jointly develop technological solutions for energy efficiency and sustainable development in the tropics.

28 Apr 2015

Research Shows Aggregated HFC Emissions Are Not Accurately Reported

Reported emissions of a group of potent greenhouse gases from developed countries are shown to be largely accurate, but for the wrong reasons, according to new findings from an international team, led by researchers at the University of Bristol.

28 Apr 2015

Sharp’s PV Energy Harvester Technology Generates Six Times More Power than Conventional Devices

Sharp’s new PV energy harvesting technology generates six times more power than conventional devices for a given surface area, translating to dramatically higher energy budgets for applications such as building automation, wearable devices, wireless sensors, and low-power displays.

28 Apr 2015

Sunpartner Technologies Presents Solar Recharging Solutions at IDTechEX Tradeshow

More than 45 million connected wearables will be sold in 2015 around the world and that number will nearly triple by 2019 according to IDC’s forecasts. They estimate that orders for wearables such as smartwatches, bracelets, augmented reality glasses, clothing, and other wearable accessories will reach 126.1 million units by 2019. The explosion in new uses and on-board apps gives rise to new issues, the first of which is the devices’ power reliability and producing clean, sustainable energy.

28 Apr 2015