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Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Entering the Atmosphere Underpins Greenhouse Effect

Burying the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, has been mooted as one geoengineering approach to ameliorating climate change. To be effective, trapping the gas in geological deposits would be the for the very long term, thousands of years.

15 Apr 2015

Air-Conditioning Achieves Maximum Efficiency When in Direct Proximity to Passengers

How can a pleasant vehicle climate be achieved efficiently? Researchers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) pursued this question in the context of the research project Visio.M funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) with a total of 7.1 million euro.

15 Apr 2015

Exposure to PCB-153 Chemical Pollutant Increases Risk of Cancer in Males

An international research project which counts with the participation of the University of Granada has demonstrated that the exposure to a chemical pollutant called PCB-153 is positively associated to the risk of suffering from cancer in males.

15 Apr 2015

Increased Air Pollution Linked to Higher Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Air pollution and smog have health consequences for affected populations ranging from respiratory problems to death. Fine particulate matter especially has become the focus in recent years, because it increases the probability of dying from respiratory or cardiovascular disease.

15 Apr 2015

New Discovery Could Improve Efficiency of Fuel Cells, Batteries

Scientists from South Carolina's leading public universities—the University of South Carolina and Clemson University—have made a discovery that could dramatically improve the efficiency of batteries and fuel cells.

13 Apr 2015

Levels of Cancer-Causing Radon Rising in Pennsylvania Homes as Natural Gas Fracking Booms

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say that levels of radon in Pennsylvania homes - where 42 percent of readings surpass what the U.S. government considers safe - have been on the rise since 2004, around the time that the fracking industry began drilling natural gas wells in the state.

13 Apr 2015

Study: Ocean Acidification Caused the Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction

Changes to the Earth's oceans, caused by extreme volcanic activity, triggered the greatest extinction of all time, a study suggests.

13 Apr 2015

U-M Scientists Awarded $250,000 Grant to Track Toxicity of Cyanobacterial Blooms in Lake Erie

ANN ARBOR--Efforts to reduce the amount of phosphorus and other nutrients washing off farm fields and into Lake Erie shifted into overdrive after high levels of a bacterial toxin shut down the drinking water supply to more than 400,000 Toledo-area residents last August.

13 Apr 2015

Lake Erie's Dead Zones Greatly Affect Fish Distributions, Catch Rates

New research shows that Lake Erie's dead zones are actually quite active, greatly affecting fish distributions, catch rates and the effectiveness of fishing gear.

13 Apr 2015

German Marine Scientists Reconstruct Variations in Past Arctic Climate

In the past decades ferromanganese crusts have been the focus of interest due to their resource potential of valuable metals such as cobalt, nickel or rare earth elements, which are highly enriched in these crusts. For the moment, however, the cost of underwater mining outweighs their cost of recovery.

13 Apr 2015

Climate-KIC Nominates Six Innovators for EIT Awards

Climate-KIC, the European initiative for innovative solutions to climate change has nominated six innovators for the 2015 EIT Awards of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT). The winners will be announced at INNOVEIT 2015 in Budapest, Hungary, on 6 May.

13 Apr 2015

SunEdison Enters Agreements to Construct Three Solar Power Plants Totaling 262MW in Southern Utah

SunEdison, Inc., the world's largest renewable energy developer, today announced that it has signed agreements to construct and install three new utility-scale solar power plants in southern Utah with a total capacity of 262 megawatts DC.

10 Apr 2015

Wind Capital to Sell 350MW of US Wind Assets to Pattern Energy Group for $244 Million

Wind Capital Group LLC, the US wind business of Dublin-based renewable energy investor, NTR plc, has agreed to sell 350MW of operating US wind assets to Pattern Energy Group Inc. for a total consideration of $244 million. The assets consist of Post Rock, located in Kansas, and Lost Creek, located in Missouri, which have been operating for an average of over three years. The sale of these assets is subject to regulatory approval and certain commercial consents.

10 Apr 2015

Eolus Acquires Stake in Pörtom Wind Power Project in Finland

Eolus expands its operations in Finland by acquiring a stake of 30 MW in the wind power project Pörtom in Närpes in Ostrobothnia. Eolus Finnish subsidiary buys all shares in the company Triventus Pörtom Wind Oy for 500 TEUR from Triventus.

10 Apr 2015