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MIT Team Develops Fog-Harvesting System with Improved Efficiency

News - 30 Aug 2013

In some of this planet’s driest regions, where rainfall is rare or even nonexistent, a few specialized plants and insects have devised ingenious strategies to provide themselves with the water...

Restricting Polystyrene Foam Packaging for Serving Food May Kill Efforts to Recycle the Packaging

News - 28 Aug 2013

San Jose, CA City Council today moved to restrict the use of polystyrene foam packaging for serving food, which would effectively kill efforts to recycle the packaging in the city. The City...

Researchers Identify Most Effective Microbial Enzymes in Biomass Deconstruction

News - 26 Jul 2013

One of the keys to commercialization of advanced biofuels is the development of cost-competitive ways to extract fermentable sugars from lignocellulosic biomass. The use of enzymes from...

Cornell Student Teams Win EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet Award

News - 2 Jul 2013

Two Cornell student teams – a cookstove fuel/biochar group and the AguaClara water filtration project – won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s prestigious People, Prosperity...

New Research Collaboration to Assess Hydrogen and Natural Gas Fuel Systems for Transportation

News - 31 May 2013

Sandia National Laboratories and SRI International, an independent research and innovation center, will join forces to explore, test and evaluate a broad range of hydrogen and natural gas fuel systems...

STARS Gold Sustainability-Performance Rating Awarded to UC San Diego

News - 24 May 2013

The University of California, San Diego has earned a “gold” sustainability-performance rating in the prestigious annual Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS)...

RWE’s Photo Bioreactor to be Integrated into US Fuel's Coal-to-Liquid Plants

News - 30 Apr 2013

US Fuel Corporation,, announced today a joint venture with Renewed World Energies, Inc. (RWE), a majority owned subsidiary of Aventura Equities, Inc., to integrate RWE's patent pending Photo...

Hydrogen-Powered Car to Compete in International Nürburgring Motorsport Event

News - 12 Apr 2013

The ability to offer a practical, affordable and clean, renewable energy through the use of hydrogen-fuelled cars is to set be demonstrated in Aston Martin’s Rapide S race car entry at the 41st...

Novel Integrated System Harvests Sunlight to Make Storable Fuel

News - 6 Mar 2013

Bringing the concept of an “artificial leaf” closer to reality, a team of researchers at MIT has published a detailed analysis of all the factors that could limit the efficiency of such a...

Efforts to Mitigate Emissions and Protect the Arctic Environment Can Benefit Communities

News - 4 Mar 2013

Climate change in the far north is occurring far more rapidly than elsewhere around the planet, but common-sense efforts to mitigate key emissions and protect the fragile Arctic environment could slow...