Updated Water Wheels Power India’s Rural Mountain Economy
Alertnet: Wooden water wheels have long captured energy from mountain streams. New versions work even better, helping provide a local, sustainable source of energy to Indian villages high in the...
View ArticleNorwegian Startup Launches Its Green Data Center Services
GIGAOM: Fjord IT opens its first data center space in Oslo and is banking on a air cooling technology and cheap hydropower to attract European customers who want low-carbon cloud services. Norway,...
View ArticleGeoengineering Is A Dangerous SolutionTo Climate Change
Huffingtonpost: As the realities of global climate change become ever more alarming, advocates of technological approaches to “geoengineer” the planet’s climate are gaining a following. But the...
View ArticleGeo Engineering Could Imperil Sahel
CNN: Attempts to tackle climate change by altering the atmosphere – geo-engineering – may have unpredictable effects. They could even trigger disaster in a drought-prone region of Africa, a study...
View ArticleClimate Models Fail To ‘Predict’ US Droughts
Scientific American: Most of my day job involves simulating the behavior of molecules like drugs and proteins using computer models. The field is more an art than a science, partially because the...
View ArticleBenign E. Coli Makes Biodiesel
CNN: Environmentally-friendly biofuel may have come a step closer with the news that scientists in the UK think they have found how a genetically-modified bacterium can produce diesel oil – on a very...
View ArticleSoftware Model To Assess Climate Change
The Hindu: Development of a large-scale software model to examine the impact of climate change in Kerala is part of a forthcoming scientific study that will formulate an integrated climate change...
View Article..Accurate Technology To Identify Threats From Sea-Level Rise
Science Daily: A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Edward L. Webb of the National University of Singapore (NUS) is calling for the global adoption of a method to identify areas that are...
View ArticleBrazil’s Indigenous Harness The Wind
CNN: While Brazil’s Government tends to favour a one-size-fits-all approach to energy provision, an indigenous group in the far north has come up with its own more sustainable solution, as our São...
View ArticleEarly Warning Technology Protects Nepali Villagers From Sudden Floods
TR Foundation: For years, Deepa Newar and her neighbours lived with the fear that their livelihoods – and even their lives – might be swept away without warning. Newar and her fellow residents of...
View ArticleNASA Helps Pinpoint Glaciers’ Role In Sea Level Rise
NASA: A new study of glaciers worldwide using observations from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise....
View ArticleThe Himalayas Are Changing-For The Worse
IPS: Residents of Jhirpu Phulpingkatt, a village nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, about 110 km from Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, are on red alert. As the impacts of climate change batter the...
View ArticleGreen Warriors Turn To Engineering To Save The Earth
New Indian Express: The recent announcement by climate watchers that carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere has crossed a psychologically significant barrier of 400 parts per million raised all the...
View ArticleWhy We’d be Mad to Rule Out Climate Engineering
The Guardian: If climate change continues then all options to lessen its impact, including geoengineering, must be considered as a last resort. The release of the report by the International Panel on...
View ArticleForest Change Mapped by Google Earth
A new high-resolution global map of forest loss and gain has been created with the help of Google Earth. The interactive online tool is publicly available and zooms in to a remarkably high level of...
View ArticleRoll on The Green Revolution
TECHNOLOGY and greenery don’t mix well. Some greens are technophobes. Most environmental policies focus on prices, consumption and subsidies to solar and wind power, which are not at the cutting edge....
View ArticleNASA App Shows Effects of Climate Change on Earth
Business Line: NASA has launched a new app that gives users a glimpse into how climate change and natural disasters are quickly transforming the landscape of the Earth. Human activities, a changing...
View ArticleWhat Do Computer Models Reveal about Likely Impacts of Climate Change?
Climate Wire: The underlying science behind climate models has greatly improved in the past couple of decades, partly due to a concerted research effort known as the Coupled Model Intercomparison...
View ArticleGorgeous Green-Roofed Ostim Eco Park is an Incubator for Clean Tech in Turkey
A central hub of innovation is great for incubating clean tech breakthroughs. Abu Dhabi has Masdar City, Saudi Arabia has KAUST, and Turkey will soon have the Ostim Eco Park. ONZ Architects strike the...
View ArticleBARC Using Nuclear Technology for Agriculture
Press Trust of India: The nuclear technology is making valuable contribution to the agriculture in India, a scientist from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre said here. Sanjay J Jambhulkar, a senior BARC...
View ArticleMonitoring Climate Change Software Uses Local Weather Data to Predict Trends
Scientists have developed a new software that gives anyone the opportunity to know their community, state or country’s weather activity for the day and months ahead. Researchers from the National...
View ArticleEasy Way To Increase Solar Cell Efficiency By 30 Percent
A research team found that by manipulating the structure of polymers within the solar cell they could increase its efficiency by 30 percent, a North Carolina State University news release reported....
View ArticleBattery Offers New Hope to Renewables
Climate News Network: Scientists in the US think they may be on the track of a new kind of battery technology that could store huge reserves of energy. One of the great problems of renewable energy...
View ArticleScientists Get Closer to Harnessing Solar Energy When Sun Doesn’t Shine
Tasnim News Agency: Led by Tom Meyer, a University of North Carolina chemistry professor, researchers at UNC’s Energy Frontier Research Center devised a “dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cell”...
View ArticlePepsiCo and Unilever Launch Online Tool for Sustainable Agriculture
Climate Action Programme: PepsiCo and Unilever with other members of the Cool Farm Institute have launched an online tool to help farmers improve the environmental and economic performance of their...
View ArticleComputers to Help Farmers Set Planting Schedules
Sci Dev Net: A team of scientists is developing improvements to a computer model that can predict the best planting dates for rice farming in areas affected by monsoons as a way of adaptation in an era...
View ArticleGoogle Earth to Show Global Temperature Records
Press Trust of India: Want to know if it was a rainy day or a sunny one when you were born? Google Earth may help. Climate researchers at the University of East Anglia, UK, have made the world’s...
View ArticleGeo-Engineering ‘Could Mean More Heat’
Climate News Network: The geo-engineers just cannot win, it seems. First, scientists demonstrated that ambitious plans to cool the planet by dimming solar radiation could have unintended and unwelcome...
View ArticleNew Online Tool Tracks Tree Loss in ‘Near Real Time’
A new global monitoring system has been launched that promises “near real time” information on deforestation around the world. Global Forest Watch (GFW) is backed by Google and over 40 business and...
View ArticleNew Tracking Technology Reveals Birds’ Epic and Amazing Journeys
The Guardian: Today sees the launch of the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science – and one of the most exciting areas of research the centre will be involved in is tracking birds and other animals as...
View ArticleNew Climate Satellite for ESA to Track GHG’s for Key Data
Airbus Defence and Space, Europe’s leading space company, will be pushing ahead with the preparation of CarbonSat, a new climate satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA), over the next 2 years. In...
View ArticleStick Filters Out ‘99%’ of Bacteria From Water
Sci Dev Net: Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States are working with their counterparts in developing countries to produce an “economical and efficient”...
View ArticleClimate Change: Artificial Cooling Tricky Topic for Panel
It’s Plan B in the fight against climate change: cooling the planet by sucking heat-trapping CO2 from the air or reflecting sunlight back into space. Called geoengineering, it’s considered mad science...
View ArticleUN Dilemma Over ‘Cinderella’ Technology
BBC News: Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting here in Berlin, will shortly publish a key study on how to curb rising temperatures. One of the techniques they are...
View ArticleThe Cost of Limiting Climate Change Could Double without Carbon Capture...
When it comes to technology for averting climate change, renewable energy often gets the limelight. But a relatively neglected technology—capturing carbon dioxide from power plants—could have a far...
View ArticleFirst Solar Bread Oven Takes a Bow
Climate News Network: Cooking using just the power of the Sun is not a new technology. Dozens of designs of solar cookers using mirrors and other shiny surfaces to concentrate the Sun’s rays are...
View ArticleRound-the-clock Solar Power Arrives
Climate News Network: Solar power’s greatest drawback has always been that it is intermittent and, even in the sunniest climes, peak electricity demand is frequently in the evening when the Sun is...
View ArticleScientists Beef up Energy Potential
Climate News Network: New scientific discoveries have been made to beef up a biofuel, re-use waste heat, get more power from solar panels – and even deliver electricity across a room without using...
View ArticleIn the Himalayas, Drones Map Melting Glaciers
“Because it’s there,” George Mallory famously replied when asked in 1923 his motivation for challenging the world’s highest peak. Yet long before Mallory’s linguistic minimalism Everest was there, a...
View ArticleChimera Enzyme May Make Better Biofuels from Waste
New Scientist: A chemical chimera may one day help break down stubborn plant matter into biofuel. The feat involves mixing enzymes from two types of plant-munching bacteria that would never have met in...
View ArticleTackling Climate Change One Rock at a Time
The Guardian: Temples rise above mud-brick houses and castles. Prayer flags flutter from every roof and woollen-cloaked men and women with brightly coloured waist-sashes stand in the street gossiping....
View ArticleGeoengineering the Earth’s Climate Sends Policy Debate Down a Curious Rabbit...
The Guardian: There’s a bit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland where things get “curiouser and curiouser” as the heroine tries to reach a garden at the end of a rat-hole sized corridor that she’s just...
View Article‘3for2’ Concept in Singapore Signals New Phase in Green Building
Singapore-ETH Centre Future Cities Laboratory (SEC FCL) and the United World College South East Asia (UWCSEA) have formed a new partnership and are looking to develop the first commercial project to...
View ArticleUN Launches ‘Game-changer’ Software to Help Developing Countries Monitor Forests
“Many countries simply do not have a full picture of what is happening in their forests, and without that knowledge it is hard to develop effective forest policies to combat deforestation and forest...
View ArticleSWITCH Tool Aims to Show Best Path to Green Energy
SciDev.Net: New software could help the world go green efficiently – while minimising environmental damage. Called SWITCH, the tool was presented by a team from the US-based University of California,...
View ArticleFloating Homes to Tackle Overcrowding in the Maldives
The Maldives — one of the most densely populated nations in the world — has embarked on a series of floating developments that could take the pressure off a severe housing shortage and counter...
View ArticleHydro Nano Gas could be the Answer for Neutralizing Carbon Fuel Emissions
Hydro Infra Technologies (HIT), a Swedish clean tech company based in Stockholm, has developed an innovative patent pending approach for neutralizing carbon fuel emissions by generating a novel gas...
View ArticleWhat Tech Will Take Off in Developing Nations in 2015?
‘Light’ will be the buzz word next year. The UN has proclaimed 2015 the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, with the goal of raising global awareness of how such technologies can...
View ArticleEnergy Poured in to Cutting-edge Conservation Ideas
Here’s a plan for cutting your carbon footprint: fit your electric car with a high-performance lithium sulphur battery that can treble the mileage for a much lower cost. That’s just one of many...
View ArticleHow Renewables can Come to the Rescue in Disaster Zones
When people’s lives are thrown into chaos by war, famine or natural disaster, using renewable energy may not seem like an obvious response. However, a group of UK entrepreneurs believes that...
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