The Kokaral Dam, a 13-kilometre earthen barrier completed in 2005 across the neck of the Aral Sea, raised the North Aral by ...
A 130-metre catamaran built by Incat in Tasmania is now crossing the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay carrying 2 ...
Radiocarbon dating of eye lenses shows Greenland sharks can live nearly 400 years, growing one centimetre annually in ...
Sept 8, 2009 - The world's first floating full-scale offshore wind turbine has been inaugurated in the North Sea off the ...
Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a foldable reflectarray antenna for CubeSats that uses an origami inspired structure to reconcile high gain performance with severe volume ...
A research team led by Prof. Haisheng San of Xiamen University and Prof. Xin Li of the China Institute of Atomic Energy has developed a new class of 90Sr radio-photovoltaic cells (RPVC) that combine ...
Scientists at the Energy and Bioproducts Institute at Aston University are to start a project to convert Indonesia's unwanted rice straw into low-cost energy on a commercial scale. Each year the ...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have engineered duckweed to produce high yields of oil. The team ...
To prepare fields for planting, farmers the world over often burn corn stalks, rice husks, hay, straw, and other waste left behind from the previous harvest. In many places, the practice creates huge ...
G7 leaders will create a "climate club" by the end of the year to allow willing nations to coordinate and speed up efforts to tackle global warming, they said in a statement Tuesday. The club will be ...