TransCanada Oil Spill Raises US Oil Prices, Stirs Its Opponents
Canadian oil prices plummeted while U.S. crude prices rose last Friday, a day after the 5,000-barrel oil spill on the Keystone pipeline in South...
Cactus Needle-like Structures Remove Oil Droplets From Water
A study published in Nature Communications last week, reveals an innovative method for cleaning up micron-sized oil droplets from water.
The team of Chinese scientists...
NOAA’s Geostationary Weather/Climate Satellites Get Additional Funds From Senate
The federal government is likely receive a fund of $984 billion, as it was announced earlier this week by the leaders of the Senate...
Earth Day – How Big is Your Footprint?
Tomorrow, April 22, 2014, marks the 44th Annual Earth Day, which started in 1970. Today, over a billion people participate in Earth Day activities...
Study Reveals How Carbon Dioxide Accelerates Glacial Melting
Scientists already agree that rising man-made carbon-dioxide is effecting the global warming phenomenon, with the implications of more extreme weather patterns and higher-than-average...
Google’s Goal to be Completely Powered by Green Energy
Google, one of the world’s largest tech companies, is working hard to source all its energy from carbon-free sources 24 hours a day. It...
Philips Opens World’s Largest Indoor Farming Facility in Holland
GrowWise City Farming Center, the biggest indoor farming facility for research and development, began operation in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, courtesy of Philips.
With the world...
Wild Arabica Coffee Could Disappear in the Next Seventy Years
Arabica Coffee is the second-most-traded commodity after petroleum, and thus is an important crop in many parts of the world, but it only grows...
Germany´s Thrive to Replace Fossil-Fuel Power with Renewables May Need Russian Gas
One of the most important environmental commitments of the German nation, to replace fossil fuel generated power for solar & wind-generated electricity, presents serious...