A technology being developed as a solution to the historic problem of acid mine drainage could also have applications for the newest environmental challenge: hydraulic fracturing of Marcellus Shale.
Faced with declining funding sources, cities must find innovative ways to comply with increasing regulatory requirements to improve performance and meet regulatory standards.
The new electrical storage devices called asymmetric capacitors can be recharged thousands of times. Now, a new design could make them cheaper, greener and lighter--a big advantage for power tools and consumer electronics.
Scientists at South Dakota State University will help subsistence livestock owners in West Africa respond to climate change and emerging land use patterns with USAID and National Science Foundation funding.
Texas Tech alumnus gives new life to recycled phone books and lottery tickets.
Climate and environment experts from Texas Tech University recently spoke at a symposium to about 150 homeowners, students and members of the media about making smart choices.
A new report published by an independent global commission of eminent scientists states that the world’s food system needs an immediate transformation to meet current and future threats to food security and environmental sustainability.
Virginia Tech's Conservation Management Institute has provided technical expertise for the world's first avoided planned deforestation project to receive certification under the requirements of the international Verified Carbon Standard. (This posting is a clarification of the news release posted and withdrawn on Nov. 8, 2011.)
A Boise State University study has shed new light on how a shallow seaway that once extended across the central part of North America circulated during one of earth’s warmest periods, about 82 to 87 million years ago.
A recent study confirms that forests, and the products made from them, has long-term benefits for the environment.
Temperatures in both hemispheres and the tropics dropped through October as a new La Niña Pacific Ocean cooling event strengthened in the ocean west of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.
Iowa State University researchers have established a national panel to research and develop technologies that take carbon out of the atmosphere and make money while doing it. The 33-member panel recently met for the first time.
Cooking stoves with chimneys can lower exposure to indoor wood smoke and reduce the rate of severe pneumonia by 30 percent in children less than 18 months of age, according to a new air pollution study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health.
A truck-mounted radar dish often used to chase Midwest tornadoes is getting a workout in Utah this month as University of Utah meteorologists use it to get an unprecedented look inside snow and rain storms over the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding mountains.
A new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that testing of imported seafood by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inadequate for confirming its safety or identifying risks.
IISD’s Mind the Gap paper provides new modelling to measure the impact of Canadian efforts to reduce GHG emissions, outlines five principles to guide policy development in a regulatory environment and offers three options Canada can consider to help it reach its target.
Virginia's brook trout streams are showing encouraging signs of recovery – in most cases – from the debilitating effects of acid rain, according to the most recent results from a long-term study led by University of Virginia environmental scientists.
In the eastern US, ants are integral to plant biodiversity because they help disperse seeds. But ants' ability to perform this vital function, and others, may be jeopardized by climate change, according to Nate Sanders, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Sanders and his colleagues are testing the effects of climate change on ants by heating up patches of forest and tracking how the ants respond. Sanders observed that, on average, the ants foraged for about ten hours a day at normal temperatures. When temperatures were raised just a half a degree, the ants stayed in their nests underground and foraged just an hour. The absence of ants' seed dispersal and nutrient cycling could have profound influence on biodiversity.
When jewelers inspect diamonds, they look for cut, clarity, color and carat. When University of Tennessee, Knoxville, geologists Larry Taylor and Yang Liu inspect diamonds, they look for minerals, inclusions jewelers hate, but whose presence could be clues for how parts of earth formed.
Bats in North America are under attack. Since 2006, more than a million have been killed. Little has been done to save them, because there has not been enough evidence to implicate the suspect—until now. A study has discovered that the fungus Geomyces destructans is the causal agent of White-nose Syndrome (WNS), the fungal disease decimating the bat population.
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