Rogue Geoengineering Project in the North Pacific
Like the plot of a low-budget spy movie, this past July, roughly 100 tons of iron sulphate was dumped into the waters of the Pacific Ocean by a “controversial American businessman.” The program was...
View ArticleNew Cap-and-Trade Auction Takes Place
The eighth largest economy in the world has a new carbon cap-and-trade program in place. And no, it’s not a country in Europe, it’s the State of California, which this week auctioned the rights to...
View ArticlePresident Obama Calls for Reduction of Carbon Pollution, Outlines Climate...
President Obama has laid out a new national climate action plan in a speech given at Georgetown University. “I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that’s beyond...
View ArticleNew Seawater Desalinating Process in Development
In general, removing salts from water is an expensive, energy intensive process. But a team of chemists at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Marburg in Germany are developing a...
View ArticleEcuador Ends Novel Plan to Save Rainforest
After several years of trying to protect one of the most undeveloped parts of the Amazonian rainforest, Ecuador has ended an attempt to get the rest of the world to contribute money to offset that...
View ArticleEPA Labels for Used Cars
The new car market has had labels to inform prospective buyers of the relative efficiencies of different vehicles. Now, the EPA is making that same information more readily available to used car...
View ArticleRecycling CDs for Wastewater Treatment
Someone has finally come up with an upcycling use for old CD discs. Din Ping Tsai, a physicist at National Taiwan University, has developed a small, low-power method for treating wastewater using UV...
View ArticleOntario Completely Off Coal
The Canadian province of Ontario has officially shut down its last coal burning power plant. Power for the province now comes from “emission-free electricity sources like wind, solar, nuclear and...
View ArticleBetter Cement for Construction with Less CO2
Greener cement for construction may be already well within reach, based on a new study carried out by researchers from MIT in the United States and CNRS in France. While modern-day cement has its...
View ArticleSuper-Efficient Solar Water Desalination
A novel approach to desalinating water could be very beneficial in providing fresh water for many parts of the world needing clean water. This is a relatively inexpensive process which uses graphite...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....