Electric cars that are twice as 'green'
Scientists are developing a design concept for a light-weight electric car made largely of plant-based materials.
Posted: Jan 11th, 2013
Read moreCompostable textiles
Scientists are developing novel textiles from 100 % renewable and natural materials. Groundcovers and insect screens are among the numerous products targeted for application of the eco-friendly technology.
Posted: Jan 11th, 2013
Read moreDeveloping heat tolerant crops
With heatwaves predicted to increase in intensity and duration, the importance of heat tolerant crops is becoming increasingly urgent.
Posted: Jan 10th, 2013
Read moreNASA chases climate change clues into the stratosphere
Starting this month, NASA will send a remotely piloted research aircraft as high as 65,000 feet over the tropical Pacific Ocean to probe unexplored regions of the upper atmosphere for answers to how a warming climate is changing Earth.
Posted: Jan 10th, 2013
Read moreNew program to exploit the potential of photosynthetic microalgae
The BOLERO program will identify the molecules with the most potential and will optimize their synthesis by selecting improved strains to increase production yields.
Posted: Jan 10th, 2013
Read moreGoogle invests $200 million in Texas wind farm
Google Inc. is investing $200 million in a Texas wind farm, the Internet search leader's latest big bet on the future alternative energy.
Posted: Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreTree seeds offer potential for sustainable biofuels
Tree seeds, rather than biomass or fuel crop plants, could represent an abundant source of renewable energy.
Posted: Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreMathematics and weather and climate research
How does mathematics improve our understanding of weather and climate? Can mathematicians determine whether an extreme meteorological event is an anomaly or part of a general trend? Presentations touching on these questions will be given at the annual national mathematics conference in San Diego, California.
Posted: Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreShareholder responsibility could spur shift to sustainable energy
Allowing shareholders to be held liable for the damages that companies cause to the environment and people could help transform the world's energy system towards sustainability.
Posted: Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreNew tool calculates potential renewable energy derived from waste material
Cranfield University has developed a new approach for calculating the potential renewable energy derived from waste material, prior to incineration, which could save time and money for the energy and waste industries.
Posted: Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreChina's offshore wind energy industry entering era of large-scale development
Wind power has become the third-largest electric power in China.
Posted: Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreStudy finds flame retardant pollutants at far-flung locations
Research supports effectiveness of tree bark as novel sampling medium for contamination.
Posted: Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreEngineering alternative fuel with cyanobacteria
Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellow Anne Ruffing has engineered two strains of cyanobacteria to produce free fatty acids, a precursor to liquid fuels, but she has also found that the process cuts the bacteria's production potential.
Posted: Jan 7th, 2013
Read moreA French nuclear exit?
France has been held up, worldwide, as the forerunner in using nuclear fission to produce electricity. However, a third of the nation's nuclear reactors will need replacing in the next decade, and public opinion has shifted toward reducing reliance on nuclear power.
Posted: Jan 7th, 2013
Read moreWine feels the effects of a changing climate
The signs of climate change are universally evident, but for French winemakers, already feeling the effects of competition from other countries, the year of volatile weather does not bode well.
Posted: Jan 7th, 2013
Read moreFrom the Amazon rainforest to human body cells: quantifying stability
The Amazon rainforest, energy grids, and cells in the human body share a troublesome property: they possess multiple stable states. When the world's largest tropical forest suddenly starts retreating in a warming climate, energy supply blacks out, or cells turn carcinogenic, complex-systems science understands this as a transition between two such states.
Posted: Jan 7th, 2013
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