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The World Future Energy Summit, held in Abu Dhabi, is showcasing some of the biggest and most imaginative technologies the green sector has seen in decades. One of the most unique items on display is a solar thermal reactor by a group calling itself Solar Fusion Power. With a 1-megawatt demonstratio...
In recent years, ocean acidification has become a talking point for climate scientists as an additional symptom of increased atmospheric CO2. It was believed that carbon dioxide diffused in ocean water would slightly acidify it, wreaking havoc on coral, crustaceans, and mollusks that require a speci...
Climate scientists recently released a new report which claims that global warming could trigger an ice age that would grip the planet in a matter of months, not years. According to the biogeochemists and climate scientists involved, melting ice from a previous warming period slowed or stifled ocean...
Aside from the harmful link between burning petroleum products and increasing the temperature of our atmosphere, the ever-looming knowledge that oil will eventually run out brings extra urgency to finding ways to heat our home and power our cars without it. Conventional wisdom says that oil is made...
UN scientists released their latest findings on climate change in an update to the 2007 research that established human-caused climate change as the scientific consensus. The new information suggests that severe climate change will still occur even if developed nations adopt aggressive carbon emissi...
(CHICAGO - Sept. 23, 2009) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the Little Scioto River, near Marion, Ohio, to the Superfund National Priorities List of hazardous waste sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned haza...
Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia recently unveiled their breakthrough in carbon storage technology. As the first coal-fired power plant to implement this technology at a commercial scale, mountaineer will be liquefying their carbon-dioxide and pumping it deep underground. While this will dra...
The EPA announced it would reexamine the 2008 smog standards to determine whether it there was data suggesting current smog standards were sufficient to meet human health standards. According to the release, smog is a contributor to asthma and other respiratory conditions. Lisa P. Jackson, the EPA A...
Nanosolar has been seeding the greentech sector with rumors of how they were going to revolutionize solar power since the company's inception in 2002. Today, seven years later, this Silicon-Valley startup finally revealed its technology to the public and announced that they've already taken $4.1 bil...
The US State Department approved the construction of an oil pipeline out of Canada that would facilitate the distribution of Alberta's oil sands. The environmental group Earthjustice, who represents the interests of Native Americans and other environmental activists, sued the State Department for th...
