Earth Sciences

Microbes Use Excess Wind Power To Make Cleaner Natural Gas

electrosynthesis is essentially carbon neutral and so will all other commodity chemicals that can be produced that ...

Article - Brita Belli - Aug 22 2012 - 4:00am

Geoengineering Less Sunshine- An Approach To Global Warming

reducing incident sunlight does nothing at all to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2012 - 8:00pm

Villa Åkarp: Sustainable Homes That Are Energy Positive

year. All the energy the home produces and uses is tracked closely, says Adalberth, the owner and ...

Article - Brita Belli - Sep 12 2012 - 4:30am

Svalbard Hotter Than Medieval Warm Period- Study

170, Hekla in 1104 and Öræfajökull in 1362--all left unique chemical time markers on Svalbard's ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2012 - 9:42am

Black Silicon Solar Cells Can Absorb Infrared Spectrum And Now Are A Whole Lot More Efficient

radiation is lost. One way to overcome it is to use black silicon, a material that absorbs nearly all of the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2012 - 8:30am

Disaster Trifecta 40,000 Years Ago: Climate Shifts, Geomagnetic Field Reversal And A Super Volcano

geomagnetic field variability at a high temporal resolution. Yet that is not all, they say. Besides giving ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2012 - 4:30am

Green Walls: Vertical Gardens Flip Parks On Their Sides

mini-ecosystems on the outside of buildings. As cities expand, they can’t always incorporate parkland into all the ...

Article - Brita Belli - Oct 25 2012 - 6:00am

Storing Solar Energy As Hydrogen Using Rust And Water

after all, the attractiveness of the approach. By making it possible to store solar energy ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2012 - 6:57pm

Kerosene From Lamps Of A Billion People A Big Source Of Black Carbon

no magic bullets that will solve all of our greenhouse gas problems, but replacing kerosene lamps is ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2012 - 6:55pm

Subwavelength Plasmonic Cavity: Metallic Sandwich May Make Solar Power Delicious

diameter of the holes – are all smaller than the wavelength of the light being collected. This is critical ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2012 - 5:30am