SwRI engineers create decision-making tool for oil spill clean-up
Tool finds the best solutions for specific spill scenarios SAN ANTONIO -- January 21, 2019 -- A team of Southwest ...
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Keeping roads in good shape reduces greenhouse gas emissions, Rutgers-led study finds
Delaying pavement maintenance boosts emissions and costsCredit: Hao Wang/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Keeping road pavement in good shape saves money and ...
'Realistic' new model points the way to more efficient and profitable fracking
Accurately predicting fracture mechanics can help industry optimize pumping, fracturing-fluid viscosity, other parametersCredit: Northwestern University A new computational model could ...
PNNL tech serves as fish body double
PNNL's autonomous 'Sensor fish' and acoustic transmitter licensed by wildlife tracking company ATSCredit: PNNL Hundreds of surrogate "fish" will be ...
Social and environmental costs of hydropower are underestimated, study shows
Study shows that deforestation, loss of biodiversity and economic damage done to communities living near dams have not been factored ...
Study: Racial inequality in the deployment of rooftop solar energy in the US
Fewer rooftop solar photovoltaics installations exist in African-American and Hispanic-dominant neighborhoods than in white-dominant neighborhoods, even when controlling for household ...
Guiding the way to a more sustainable energy future
Lehigh's Energy Research Center helps lead society's transition away from fossil fuelsCredit: Lehigh University The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
Ancient gene duplication gave grasses multiple ways to wait out winter
MADISON, Wis. -- If you've ever grown carrots in your garden and puzzled over never once seeing them flower, don't ...
NREL details great potential for floating PV systems
Technology already in widespread use overseas, especially in Japan National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers estimate that installing floating solar ...
Experts warn against mega-dams in lowland tropical forests
Credit: Isabel Jones Mega-dams should not be built in lowland tropical forest regions due to the threat they pose to ...
Fish bones yield new tool for tracking coal ash contamination
Isotope ratios used as fingerprints of ash's impacts on organismsCredit: Jessica Brandt, Duke Univ. DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke University ...
Droughts boost emissions as hydropower dries up
Credit: Paul Hames/California Department of Water Resources When hydropower runs low in a drought, western states tend to ramp up ...
UNH research finds recreationists support offshore wind energy development
DURHAM, N.H.-- From boat enthusiasts to anglers, researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found surprisingly widespread support for ...
New research suggests forests, like humans, require a balanced diet
Credit: Greg Ellis/WVU MORGANTOWN, W. Va.-- The world's forests are on a fast food diet of carbon dioxide, which is ...
Powder could help cut CO2 emissions
Scientists at the University of Waterloo have created a powder that can capture CO2 from factories and power plants. The ...
Takeaway containers — the environmental cost of packing our favorite fast-foods
Scientists say more should be done to tackle the growing environmental impact of takeaway food containers. A new study estimates ...
Press registration opens for 2019 spring national meeting of the American Chemical Society
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2018 -- Journalists may now apply for press credentials for the American Chemical Society's (ACS') Spring 2019 ...
New study will track how trade wars affect the Midwest
Team studying how tariffs affect food, water, energy in America's heartland A team of researchers who first proposed studying the ...
Yin and yang: Opposites in nature, fluoride and lithium, compete for higher energy batteries
Credit: Purdue University image/Brett Savoie WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The chemical element that makes up most of today's batteries, lithium, ...
Fighting smog supports solar power
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory The air in Beijing is often very bad. The city sinks under a brown cover made ...