Strategic alliance to produce “ground-breaking” wind-solar hybrid systems

Wind - Strategic alliance to produce ?ground-breaking? wind-solar hybrid systems - Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalism

Quick win: aviation biofuels offers breakout for clean energy

In Copenhagen this week, a coalition of companies and associations involved in aviation biofuels made a strong case for the sector not only as a quick win for biofuels, but as a quick win for clean energy as a whole.

Japanese flair for detail elevates 'earth-bricks' house by Atelier Tekuto

Photos: Toshihiro Sobajima for Atelier Tekuto Earth building is unusual in Japan, a nation better-known for its high-tech and ultra-modern architecture. That's why this single-storey earth-brick residence in Chiba, Japan by Atelier Tekuto is so striking:

Iberia completes first commercial biofuel flight

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The future of transportation on a planet with 7 billion people

Photo: Flickr, CC Take a Step Back and Look As we near the moment when our planet officially hosts 7 billion people (of course this is just a statistical guess - nobody's sure precisely how many humans are on Earth), we need to take some time to think

19 year old improves solar power capacity by 40%

The idea is such a simple one: rotate solar panels to follow the sun throughout the day so they capture the most of the sun's energy as possible. Solar power tracking systems have been around for some time, but a 19-year-old

Linked quantum dots could create cheap, efficient solar cells

Researchers at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at TU Delft in the Netherlands have demonstrated that electrons can move freely in layers of linked

People are biased against creative ideas, studies find

The next time your great idea at work elicits silence or eye rolls, you might just pity those co-workers. Fresh research indicates they don

Children of depressed mothers have a different brain: MRI scans show their children have an enlarged amygdala

Scientists worked with 10-year-old children whose mothers exhibited symptoms of depression throughout their lives and discovered that the children

Increased protection urgently needed for tunas, experts urge

For the first time, all species of scombrids (tunas, bonitos, mackerels and Spanish mackerels) and billfishes (swordfish and marlins) have been assessed for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Of the 61 known species, seven are classified in a threatened category, being at serious risk of extinction. Four species are listed as Near Threatened and nearly two-thirds have been placed in the Least Concern category.

Broader psychological impact of 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill

The explosion and fire on a BP-licensed oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 had huge environmental and economic effects, with millions of gallons of oil leaking into the water for more than five months. It also had significant psychological impact on people living in coastal communities, even in those areas that did not have direct oil exposure, according to researchers.

Ozone layer’s future linked strongly to changes in climate, study finds

The ozone layer -- the thin atmospheric band high-up in the stratosphere that protects living things on Earth from the sun