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How Electric Vehicles Have the Power to Change the World

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:01:31 +0000

The sales of electric vehicles are growing slowly but steadily with many car drivers choosing their purchase over a petrol-driven vehicle. In the UK, for example, 2018 saw 5,000 new electric cars being registered every month (statistics from the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders). With many countries offering discounts on road tax plus financial […]

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Swiss Startup Climeworks Opens Facility in Italy, Turns CO2 into Natural Gas

Ally Munda — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:05:21 +0000

Swiss startup Climeworks is championing new technology that helps in the fight against climate change. While many sectors are focusing on reducing future emissions by developing more effective fuels and technology, Climeworks is in the business of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide already released by human activity, even so far as creating ‘negative emissions’ […]

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Methane’s Rising Greenhouse Effect, Measured Directly for the First Time

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 05:13:26 +0000

Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are called greenhouse gases. As their atmospheric concentrations change, scientists expect the amount of energy absorbed by these gases would change accordingly. However, this was not yet proven outside the laboratory until a study was conducted by US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab Research. According to Berkeley […]

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Diesel Cars Emit More Greenhouse Gases than Petrol/Gas Cars, New Study Finds

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 16:51:40 +0000

It has been widely known that diesel-powered cars generate lower greenhouse gases compared to petrol/gasoline cars. Contrary to this, a study conducted by Transport and Environment (T&E) claims that on the basis of their full lifetime, diesel cars generate more air particulates, carbon dioxide, and NOx than those powered by petrol or gasoline. In their […]

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Scientists Hope the Gas Could be Greener

Leigh Hutchens — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 01:10:11 +0000

The Dutch company DSM has funded academic researchers and scientists in order to address the climate-wrecking methane gasses excreted by cows. Methane is close to 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a contributor to global warming. Even though other grazing animals also expel greenhouse gases, statistics suggest that cows produce 26 to 53 […]

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New Rice University Sensor Sniffs Greenhouse Gases

Danny Harper — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:11:26 +0000

A particularly difficult argument to have with those who do not have a background in environmental topics is one that involves the actual effects of greenhouse gases. You can drone on all day about the science and math involved, but without direct visual evidence, it is sometimes difficult to convince others. In general, we simply do not know […]

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The Seven Biggest Contributors to Climate Change

Benji Jerew — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:08:06 +0000

Climate change isn’t the work of one person over a short period of time, or even of a few people over decades. Thanks to the concerted efforts of billions of people over the last couple hundred years, climate change has become a recordable phenomenon, about +0.74°C between 1906 and 2005. Interestingly, it’s not simply a […]

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Boeing Creates $3/gal Sustainable Jet Biofuel

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:22:37 +0000

If it weren’t for the high cost, many commercial airlines would already be using renewable fuels, and now, thanks to Boeing, sustainable jet fuel may now be affordable. Under a groundbreaking green diesel initiative, Boeing is exploring the best ways to reduce aviation’s environmental footprint. Boeing has been at the forefront of this research since […]

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Hydrocarbon Drilling Impacts Aquatic Life

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 05:34:09 +0000

According to new research published in November in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, Joshua Thienpont and colleagues at Queen’s University discovered that drilling sumps that are related to hydrocarbon extraction can cause major issues with aquatic ecosystems. Although they are a major source of energy and combustible fuel, hydrocarbons are a big source of greenhouse […]

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Western Australia Innovating Carbon Management Practices

Leigh Hutchens — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:16:16 +0000

According to researchers at the University of Western Australia (UWA), in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Food WA (DAFWA), Western Australia’s surface soils are storing as much carbon as they are able. In fact, in agricultural regions in the southwest of Western Australia, the soil, usually between 0-10 cm, stores as much carbon […]

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More Monsoons Expected Due to Global Warming

Leigh Hutchens — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:25:44 +0000

A paper published today by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by scientists at the University of New Mexico posits that future global warming may produce above average monsoonal moisture. The extra moisture will most likely be counterbalanced by increased evaporative loss. The scientists discovered that during the late Holocene era, […]

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VW Developing CO2 Air Conditioning System, Rejects EU Law for 2017

Benji Jerew — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:05:28 +0000

A new refrigerant developed by Honeywell and Dupont, HFO-1234yf, will be required by law to replace R-134a, but Volkswagen is rejecting this and developing its own carbon dioxide air conditioning system. The new refrigerant, HFO-1234yf, is supposed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by something like 99.7%. In spite of a new law in the EU […]

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Clean Air Act Reduced Smog-Forming Emissions Steadily for Over 20 Years

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:16:20 +0000

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released data proving that the Clean Air Act regulations have had a tremendous impact and are hugely successful at reducing pollutants and greenhouse gases. In 1990, the Clean Air Act was amended to combat ozone depletion, acid rain, and to combat 189 toxic pollutants, sulfur dioxide (SO2) and […]

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“Physical Internet” to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated With Logistics

Mila Luleva — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:09:45 +0000

Engineers at Virginia Tech University and the University of Arkansas conducted a study which shows that if businesses are linked together through a shared network, or “physical internet,” they will greatly reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced during transportation of their products. According to the authors from the CELDi (Center for Excellence in Logistics […]

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Trapped Greenhouse Gases Easier to Monitor Due to New Technology

Mila Luleva — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:11:24 +0000

Greenhouse gases can now be monitored using automated technology that even works underground. This striking innovation has the unique abilities to function regardless of weather conditions and still use minimal power. The creator is Professor David Risk, of St. Francis Xavier University’s (StFX) Department of Earth Sciences. Risk and his team have been monitoring emissions […]

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The Year 2011 Breaks Records For Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Mila Luleva — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:40:24 +0000

China remains on top of the World’s largest producers of carbon dioxide emissions, contributing greatly towards the new record of 34 billion tonnes of emitted greenhouse gases for 2011. The German-based private institute – a German-based private institute, The Renewable Energy Industry Institute (IWR), reported on Tuesday that although the global economic crisis caused a […]

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Greenhouse Gases Rising Steadily, World Meteorological Organization Reports

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:17:21 +0000

The global warming is here to stay – this is what the World Meteorological Organization said in this year’s issue of their Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane are at their highest since the industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th century. Carbon dioxide is actually not the most harmful […]

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerated In Recent Years Despite Economic Recession, Says WMO

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:55:20 +0000

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released a press statement today, in which they warn about the rise in atmospheric greenhouse gases during the last few years. Despite the economic crisis, which slowed down the industry a bit, the gas concentration rose in 2009, driving Earth towards a sure warming in the near future.

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Taipei's Financial Center Corp to Become World's Tallest Green Building

Cristi — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:30:43 +0000

The tallest building between 2004-2007 Taipei's Financial Center Corp (TFC) is now also looking to become the world's tallest green building. The 101 floors structure will get its new looks in the next 18-month with a $1,9 million investment. TFC will primarily get new heating, cooling and ventilation system upgrades.

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Complex Algae-Powered Energy System Made by a 15-Year Old

Cristi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:21:36 +0000

This years scholarship prize of $20,000 of Invent Your World Challenge went to a 15 year old fellow from Texas called Javier FernÃƒÆ’¡ndez-Han, who proved us all that renewable energy is the way we should direct our creativity upon.

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