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Researcher Working to Make Environmentally Friendly Fuel From Algae

News - 27 Aug 2008

Having studied the physiology of algae for more than 30 years, Rose Ann Cattolico is convinced the plant life found in oceans and ponds can be a major source of environmentally friendly fuels for...

Research Expedition Held on Corals and Gobal Warming

News - 26 Aug 2008

For just one late-summer night each year, the shallow waters off the coast of Puerto Rico fill with the pale-pink spawn of elkhorn corals -- the tiny, round packets of the adult corals' eggs and...

A2B Electric Bike Offers Urban Freedom for People Who Want to Get Out of Their Cars

News - 13 Aug 2008

Ultra Motor today announced the availability of its new A2BTM electric bike. Developed and manufactured by an international team of expert designers and engineers, the A2B is a state-of-the-art...

Drought Solution Required to Keep Los Angeles and Southern California from Going Dry

News - 29 Jul 2008

The Los Angeles County County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) today released the preliminary findings from its study, "Where Will We Get The Water? Assessing Southern California's...

Air Travel Set For a Shake Up With Rigid Shelled, Amphibious, All Weather, Solar Powered Passenger Airships from Turtle Airships

News - 3 Jul 2008

Turtle Airships company will change the world aviation industry with 200 mph solar powered airships. Constructed with rigid shelled hulls of aluminum and carbon fiber, the airships look like giant...

Dow Corning to Cointribute to Next Generation Hybrid Vehicle

News - 24 Jun 2008

Dow Corning Corporation’s Compound Semiconductor Solutions is a key member of a Delphi Corporation-led team that was recently selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to lead an industry...

Project Aims to Reduce Deforestation and Lung Disease

News - 15 Jun 2008

In many villages throughout Tibet, there are two ways to cook a meal. There's the traditional open fire, fueled by yak dung or the region's increasingly scarce wood. And then there are solar...

Horizon Lines Announces Corporate Environmental Initiative Called Horizon Green

News - 14 Jun 2008

Horizon Lines, Inc., the nation's leading domestic ocean shipping and integrated logistics company, today announced a wide-ranging corporate environmental initiative called Horizon Green....

PVC Shower Curtains are Potentially Toxic to the Health of Consumers

News - 12 Jun 2008

Results from a two-phase study released today by the Center for Health, Environment + Justice, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing environmental health harms caused by chemical threats,...

Improving the Environmental Footprint and Making the Operation More Economical

News - 2 Jun 2008

Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.) chemical engineering students may help make a drug that eases the pain of arthritis sufferers gentler on the environment. Rowan students Anthony Furiato ('08,...