When you have to replace the battery in your mobile phone or portable electronic device every couple of years or so, it's no surprise that people are skeptical of battery life in electric- and hybrid-electric vehicles.
Hybrid electric vehicles aren't...
Seemingly an innocent postscript added by mistake to a wildlife article in The Daily Telegraph a week ago, reports that wind farms might not need as much backup as claimed.
The figures listed in the piece indicate that only 22 gigawatt-hours...
Titanium dioxide coatings, "self-cleaning" substances used for removal of air pollution, were found to increase the levels of nitrogen oxide, causing ozone pollution.
A study by environmental scientists at Indiana University, published this week in the Journal of the American...
Stuttgart University was commissioned by Greenpeace to conduct a study to determine the impacts of Europe’s largest coal power plants. Stuttgart’s scientists were able to estimate the economic and health impact of the continent’s 300 largest coal plants.
The experts...
Researchers at University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory have developed a polymer membrane that, when fired ultraviolet light at, causes the formation of ozone, just like in the upper atmosphere.
The Green energy revolution isn't just about eliminating fossil fuels. To be sure, this...
Abuse of prescription drugs is a big problem today, ranging from self-medicating physicians to dealers on the street. A similar problem has been found in water pollution downstream from waste treatment plants.
Self-medication is problem because a number of considerations...
Millions of years ago, carbon sequestration occurred when plant and animal matter were buried and compressed in layers of rock.
Mining operations have been pushing deeper into these layers of rock to extract fossil fuels. Burning these fuels has the...
Hydrofluorocarbons have proved to be an excellent replacement for chlorofluorocarbons , which have been phased out of production for environmental reasons.
Chlorofluorocarbons originally were very popular used as propellant in aerosol spray cans and as a refrigerant gas in...
The importance of trees in controlling the global carbon cycle is very often neglected. We keep hearing about extensive deforestation projects, forest fires and cutting of thousand years old trees for the properties of their wood or simply because...
A new way to turn sea water into hydrogen has been developed by scientists at the University of Wollongong, in Australia. It uses artificial chlorophyll that acts as a catalyst to split saltwater in a way that's never been...
