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The American Highway: a New Source of Solar Energy
Route 66 crosses 3,940 km of the continental USA, stretching from California to Illinois, and for one ambitious startup, this famous road is an ideal source of clean energy.
Based in Idaho, Solar...
Solar Panels Have Gotten Thinner than a Human Hair
South Korean scientists have created solar PV cells that are 1 micrometer thick, hundreds of times thinner than most PV and half again as thin as other kinds of thin-film PV. (The...
Financing the Future
In 2015, $286 billion was invested in renewable energy. That is an enormous sum of money by many measurements, but is it enough, and are we on track to meet the energy...
The Paris Agreement Asks Businesses to Be Bold
Ahead of the historic climate negotiations in December at COP21, BSR and our partners at We Mean Business recognized that the Paris Agreement could be more than a diplomatic settlement among nations—that...
Scientists Plead with Australia to Get Off Coal to Save the Great Barrier Reef
Coral reefs around the world are in a dire predicament, as warmer-than-usual waters are causing widespread bleaching and death among these crucial marine organisms. Now, more than 2,500 marine scientists and policy...
Researchers Assess Power Plants that Convert all of their CO2 Emissions into Carbon Nanotubes
Last year, researchers at George Washington University proposed a method for transforming CO2 emissions into carbon nanotubes (CNTs). When applied to power plants, the technology could completely eliminate the power plants' CO2...
ABB Inverter Dramatically Boosts Performance of Solar Power Installations
Zurich, Switzerland, June 20, 2016 – ABB’s PVS980 central inverter – an essential component in every solar installation that converts direct current (DC) produced in solar panels into alternating current (AC) for...
Antarctic CO2 Hits 400ppm for the First Time in 4m Years
We’re officially living in a new world.
Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year after year. There’s a notable new entry to...
Alaska Continues to Bake, on Track For Hottest Year
Alaska just can’t seem to shake the fever it has been running. This spring was easily the hottest the state has ever recorded and it contributed to a year-to-date temperature that is...
Arctic Could Become Ice-Free
Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University predicts we could see ‘an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year’.
The Arctic is on track to be free of...
Australia Records Warmest Autumn Ever
The mean temperature between March and May was 23.86C but winter could be cooler than normal as El Niño wanes.
After officially sweltering through the warmest autumn on record, Australians can expect a...
Biodegradable plastic ‘false solution’ for ocean waste problem
Biodegradable plastic water bottles and shopping bags are a false solution to the ubiquitous problem of litter in the oceans, the UN’s top environmental scientist has warned.
Most plastic is extremely durable, leading...
Carbon emissions highest in 66 million years, since dinosaur age
The rate of carbon emissions is higher than at any time in fossil records stretching back 66 million years to the age of the dinosaurs, according to a study on Monday that...
2016 Arctic Sea Ice Wintertime Extent Hits Another Record Low
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center...
NREL Explains the Higher Cellulolytic Activity of a Vital Microorganism
Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) say better understanding of a bacterium could lead to cheaper production of cellulosic ethanol and other...
IEA releases Oil Market Report for January
Exceptionally mild temperatures in the early part of the winter in Japan, Europe and the United States – alongside weak economic sentiment in China, Brazil, Russia and other commodity-dependent economies – saw...
