7 Ways We Can Slash Carbon Emissions, Globally
When reducing carbon dioxide emissions is one of the hottest topic at most environmental conferences, researchers at the Norwegian state-owned enterprise Gassnova and the...
Monitoring Pollution Levels Using Your Smartphone
Air quality can now be monitored in real-time through smartphone devices using small fleet of portable pollution sensors. The invention is developed by scientists...
Recent Study Finds Climate Change Threatening California’s Power Grid
Climate change has been studied in its effect on various human activities, including agriculture, health, water supplies, and of course, the weather. Effects on...
European Commission’s Carbon Capture and Storage Contest Declares No Winner
After no winner was declared in the first round of a contest staged by the European Commission to fund carbon capture and storage (CCS),...
Climate Predictions May Be Inaccurate Unless Polar Mesoscale Storms Considered
Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the University of Massachusetts predict that intense, small-scale polar storms may impact climate predictions. These polar...
New Nanofibers Making Sulfur-Free Fuels
Sulfur compounds in fuels can cause problems. Big problems. To combat this issue, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed mats of metal...
Agricultural Productivity Threatened by Over-fertilization
As agricultural practices become more advanced, and different types of fertilizers flood the market, it is almost inevitable to assume that soils no longer...
Eastern US Climate Change – Hotter and Wetter by 2057
Weather reports are typically not as accurate as we'd like them to be, and we wonder if we should pack our umbrellas or not....
Climate Change Deniers Manipulate Leaked IPCC Report to Downplay Human Involvement in Climate Change
On his blog Stop Green Suicide, blogger Alec Rawls prematurely published the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) fifth assessment report. The report was...
Air Pollution Amongst the Biggest Health Threats Worldwide
Since the implementation of the Clean Air Act, the air quality over the US has improved significantly over the last few decades. Nevertheless, on...
