If you lived green, then you've got to die green. And if you want to die green, then you've totally got to check this out. Resomation, a Scottish company, is now installing their second "green cremation" machine in Minnesota,...
Hard as steel, quick-growing (three times faster than hard woods), bamboo has been long used in countries like Colombia to make good, durable home. However, its drawbacks like the sensitivity to UV rays and humidity, thin walls and empty...
Last year's Fukushima March 11 event taught us one of the most important lessons ever: there's no toying with tsunamis or nuclear power - they're too powerful to be contained and controlled. Now, the butterflies from Fukushima, exposed to...
A study funded by the NOAA has recently claimed that the volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the Los Angeles Basin have dropped immensely over the past 50 years, despite the fact that the fossil fuel usage now is three...
Siemens has recently invented a new biodrying process that can convert sewage sludge into usable elements - all of this while saving a great deal of energy. Thus, their "mechanically enhanced biodrying" doesn't require any external heat source, but...
An MIT report submitted to the DOE forwards the idea of scavenging the power of volcanoes for electricity, safely. In short, they want to inject water inside a dormant volcano in Oregon at pressures that could trigger earthquakes. However,...
An international team of scientists have made a breakthrough discovery by realizing why nanoporous gold (NPG) has a high catalytic activity and can be used for making fuel cells and durable catalytic converters, as opposed to bulk gold, which...
Envia Systems is GM's newest "protegee" in what their interest in EV battery in concerned. Envia has recently announced a breakthrough in a battery that's as cheap as the ones used nowadays in the Volt and also has a...
Researchers from two universities discovered a new sunlight-independent pathway for the formation of sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. Sulfuric acid is known to have significant environmental and health impacts.
An international team of scientists headed by the University of Colorado...
They first announced that they'd build the FCV-R, a hydrogen-powered vehicle, by 2020. Now, Toyota is telling everyone through its U.S. CEO, Jim Lentz, that they're up to build a hydrogen car by 2015 - just impressive. The announcement has...
