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High Bio-Oil Yields Achieved from Common Kelp

The sea has long been a source of Norway’s riches, whether from cod, farmed salmon or oil. Now one researcher from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) researcher hopes to add seaweed to this list as he refines a way to produce “biocrude” from common kelp.

17 Oct 2014

Offshore Wind Developments Impact Marine Species, Ongoing Assessment Needed

Offshore wind power is a valuable source of renewable energy that can help reduce carbon emissions. Technological advances are allowing higher capacity turbines to be installed in deeper water, but there is still much unknown about the effects on the environment.

17 Oct 2014

Sixth Consecutive Year of NASA’s Study on Antarctic Ice Change

NASA is carrying out its sixth consecutive year of Operation IceBridge research flights over Antarctica to study changes in the continent’s ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice. This year’s airborne campaign, which began its first flight Thursday morning, will revisit a section of the Antarctic ice sheet that recently was found to be in irreversible decline.

17 Oct 2014

Midsummer Named by Stockholm Cleantech Hotlist as "One of the Most Interesting Cleantech Companies"

Midsummer, a leading supplier of production lines for cost effective manufacturing of flexible thin film solar cells, CIGS, has been named as ‘one of the most interesting cleantech companies in Stockholm’ for its ‘unique product with global potential’.

From Midsummer AB 16 Oct 2014

Abundant Natural Gas Alone May Not Slow Climate Change

A new analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term, according to a study appearing today in Nature.

16 Oct 2014

Reduction of Light Pollution Might Help Mitigate Artificial Light-Induced Fledgling Mortality

Turning the street lights off decreased the number of grounded fledglings, according to a study published October 15, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Airam Rodríguez and colleagues from Phillip Island Nature Parks, in Victoria, Australia, and Estación Biológica de Doñana, in Spain.

16 Oct 2014

Alteration of Forest Tree Composition May Not be Due to Climate Change

Change in disturbance regimes -- rather than a change in climate -- is largely responsible for altering the composition of Eastern forests, according to a researcher in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

16 Oct 2014

Jellyfish Falls Play an Import Role in the Deep-Sea Ecosystem

This week, researchers from University of Hawai'i, Norway, and the UK have shown with innovative experiments that a rise in jellyfish blooms near the ocean's surface may lead to jellyfish falls that are rapidly consumed by voracious deep-sea scavengers. Previous anecdotal studies suggested that deep-sea animals might avoid dead jellyfish, causing dead jellyfish from blooms to accumulate and undergo slow degradation by microbes, depleting oxygen at the seafloor and depriving fish and invertebrate scavengers, including commercially exploited species, of food.

16 Oct 2014

Earth Experienced Highly Variable Levels of CO2 During Globally Warm Period

Scientists at the Universities of Southampton and Cardiff have discovered that a globally warm period in Earth's geological past featured highly variable levels of CO2.

16 Oct 2014

Stem Partners with Kyocera Solar to Offer Integrated Solar PV and Energy Storage Solution for Businesses

Stem, Inc., a leader in advanced energy technology, today announced it has teamed with Kyocera Solar, Inc., a provider of innovative solar power solutions, to offer an integrated solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage solution for commercial power users.

16 Oct 2014

Etrion, Hitachi High-Tech Commence Construction on 34MW Solar PV Project in Japan

Etrion Corporation ("Etrion" or the "Company"), a solar independent power producer, today announced the start of construction on its first 34 megawatts ("MW") in Japan jointly owned with Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation ("Hitachi High-Tech") (TSE: 8036), a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. ("Hitachi").

16 Oct 2014

NRG eVgo Completes Large Installation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations at Sony Pictures Entertainment

NRG eVgo, a subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc., has completed installation of the largest corporate deployment of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in Southern California. eVgo has installed and will manage 60 charging stations at Sony Pictures Entertainment’s historic Lot and its offices in Culver City in order to provide workplace charging for their employees with electric vehicles.

15 Oct 2014

Inhaled Anesthetics Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Often overlooked in estimates of the carbon footprint created by the health care industry, inhaled anesthetics contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, suggests research being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY™ 2014 annual meeting. Switching to different types of anesthesia can reduce anesthesia-related emissions by more than 11 times, the study found.

15 Oct 2014

Sponsored Session on Climatic Stress Effects on Soil Microbial Communities Agroecosystems

Simple, Cheap Methods to Tap Arsenic-Safe Drinking Water

Arsenic poisoning is widespread in Bangladesh, where ground water is contaminated by runoff from the Himalayas. Now researchers have developed two simple and cheap methods that well drillers can use to tap arsenic-safe drinking water.

15 Oct 2014