Instead of dumping carbon deep underground we could be exploring ways to use it and reduce our overall emissions at the same time
… be grown anywhere and do not require as much water or even clean water. In the US, the University of Minnesota … been demonstrating the technology using waste water from sewage works. The benefit is …
Wind energy finally seems to be moving somewhere in the UK, but without some new techniques, our grid is simply not going to cope with this flood of new green power
… its limits, using more wind power overall. A watery solution? The ability to turn … meaning the reservoirs are rain-fed and the water can only flow downhill once. To make the … heights are connected by pipes and reversible water turbines. Then when the wind blows at …
The oil industry and oil producers have a long history of market manipulation, writes Karl Grossman, and we see it going on right now with the low oil price that's squeezing fracking and getting America back onto gas-guzzling SUV's. But longer term, solar power is going to win out, and even Saudi Arabia knows it. Its game? To make out big, while the going's good.
… and polluting process. Massive amounts of water and 600 chemicals are shot into the … of gas from fracking wells into underground water causing not only serious contamination … but the phenomenon of what comes out of a water faucet bursting into flames when touched …
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline
… (dogged as it is with protests, earthquakes, water contamination and figures suggesting … China to extract shale gas is the amount of water required to fracture the shale beds and … gas reserves are in the arid far-west where water availability is limited. This raises …
When Michael Buckley took a white water rafting trip in Tibet in 2005, he had no idea of the adventure he was embarking on - a ten-year investigation of China ruthless exploitation of Tibet's mineral and hydroelectric resources, and its systematic attack on indigenous Tibetans, their culture and their survival on the land.
… Buckley | 13th April 2015 News China Tibet Water Renewables Energy Mining Land Grabs … When Michael Buckley took a white water rafting trip in Tibet in 2005, he had no … pure adrenaline rush: riding the wildest whitewater I'd ever been on. But the rafting guides …
Government subsidies to replace oil or traditional electric heating with heat pumps ignore the global warming impact of their HFCs, argues new analysis
… can be used to provide central heating or hot water in the same way as a domestic boiler. … HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE How to make a solar water heater from plastic bottles Retired … a simple, cheap, energy saving rooftop solar water heater which is benefiting thousands of …
A new wave power generator has moved closer to reality after successful testing in simulated marine conditions. An array of the 1.5MW 'Searaser' devices could be deployed on Britain's coast within a few years.
… its computed outputs in Britain's coastal waters, and to ensure its sturdiness under … of the ocean swell to pump high pressure seawater ashore, where it will be used to make … between two buoys - one on the surface of the water, the other suspended underwater and …
Following announcements by two UK-based companies, wave power looks set to become an increasingly important renewable energy source. But how long will it be before it is commercially viable and what ecological benefits might it bring?
… ‘wave power’), had generated power in UK waters for the first time - hailed by Scottish … as there aren’t yet many projects in the water available for monitoring and … that may feed on the fish,' says Lafayette. 'Water quality [would also] be impacted as the …
The world is seeing the human cost of climate disruption playing out across the Horn of Africa. Severe droughts, erratic rainfall and rising temperatures have tipped nations towards famine and left communities fighting for survival. But it's also a man-made crisis and one that we can address both in the short and long term reports JOE WARE
… government in 1954. Burgabo is the only watering point for miles around and the high … waited for their turn to access the limited water hole, a huge dust cloud engulfed the … and traumatised herder, soaked with mud and water came shouting and the villagers rushed …
Environmental groups in Germany, Finland and Denmark claim gas pipeline will devastate the Baltic Sea's already fragile marine ecosystem
… the Baltic countries throug whose territorial waters the pipeline will pass. Construction is … about munitions dumps in Danish and Swedish waters - which it claims have not been … sounds travel further in increasingly acidic water INVESTIGATION How can we have fish …
Massive dams in Sarawak, Malaysia, threaten to flood over 2,000 square kilometers of the world's oldest rainforests, displace 10,000s of indigenous people, and aggravate climate change, writes Amanda Stephenson - all to generate electricity that no one wants.
… | 30th June 2014 News Renewables Dams Water Forests Indigenous Peoples Malaysia … and health problems caused by poor diet and water pollution. Despite being relocated to … state, resettled families pay unsubsidized water and electricity bills in their …
Much more than just a tool to engage communities in climate change issues, the solar industry argues it could meet between 6-8 per cent of the UK's electricity needs by 2020
… installations, which use solar energy to heat water, is to be launched in 2012 as part of … HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE How to make a solar water heater from plastic bottles Retired … a simple, cheap, energy saving rooftop solar water heater which is benefiting thousands of …
The real lesson of Volkswagen's 'dieselgate' scandal is that we must ditch petroleum fuels, writes Harry Hoster. There's new, clean technologies just waiting to take off - and the most promising is fuel cells. They will also fit right into the new world of renewables, with surplus power from wind and solar making the hydrogen they burn.
… fuelling stations extract hydrogen from water by running a current through it, … fuel (you may remember doing this exact water electrolysis experiment in school). This … all you need to bring is electricity and water - helps avoid transporting hydrogen fuel …
America's crumbling nuclear power plants, dozens of them built to the design that spectacularly failed at Fukushima, must be closed down to prevent catastrophe, writes Harvey Wasserman. So let's hear Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton speak out on the topic and make it a core issue in the Presidential race!
… still dumps huge quantities of radioactive water into the Pacific every day. The site is … General Electric's Fukushima Unit 1 Boiling Water Reactor now operate in the US. They all … 2015. Just a few days ago radioactive groundwater contamination with tritium was …
The EPA's plan for 'clean power' are welcome, writes Tim Judson - except for its inclusion of nuclear, and economic distortions and serious omissions that favour the technology. In this open letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, he and co-signatories call on her to ditch the 'false and irrational assumptions' used to justify both new and existing nuclear power.
… and uranium mining to reactor accidents and water use. Recognize and incorporate the much … waste and nuclear power's impact on water resources, simply characterizing them as … years. In addition, nuclear reactors' use of water is more intensive than fossil fuel …
North Africa expected to become major producer of concentrated solar power (CSP), more than half of which would be exported to meet European electricity demands
… direct sunshine.' A market analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers and due to be published next … HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE How to make a solar water heater from plastic bottles Retired … a simple, cheap, energy saving rooftop solar water heater which is benefiting thousands of …
Britain's soils are in a bad way, writes John Quinton, and the government is doing little to help - indeed its policies are making the problems worse. So concludes yesterday's Environment Audit Committee report on soil health. But are ministers bothered?
… of wider ecosystems services such as water quality and flood protection." Widening … of our soil carbon and are source of flood water. Tackling wind erosion and tillage … is a much more significant process than water erosion. The scandal of maize of …
Biofuels are controversial because they are often produced from food crops or grown on farmland, writes Paul Brown, creating extra pressure on land and forests. But a common algae found in abundance around coastlines and clogging up beaches may be the answer.
… is that algae can absorb nitrogen from the water as effectively as a wastewater treatment plant" , Gröndahl says, An … near the Swedish town of Strömstad, in the waters that separate the country from Denmark. …
From wool insulation to wood-burning boilers, a greener property is possible. Bethany Hubbard rounds up the key things to look out for
… heating, but also instantly heat your hot water. ‘They are quite efficient now compared … and opt for solar thermal, which cycles water through a solar panel in order to … boiler, which in itself doesn’t need a hot water storage tank, and you want solar …
When Prime Minister Theresa May went to Brussels to hand in her 'Article 50' Brexit notice, she was also pursuing a separate, covert objective, writes Zachary Davies Boren. Leaked papers show that the UK was lobbying to gut new EU rules and targets on renewable energy and energy efficiency - even though they will only come into force after Brexit.
… Project , said: "Efforts by the UK to water down the EU's energy efficiency mandate … proposed regulations the UK is trying to water down concern the governance of Europe's … - such as 'if applicable' - that would water down the strength of the agreement. And …
After ten massive renewable energy cuts that are leaving the UK falling well short of EU renewable energy targets, an eleventh! The axe is now falling on solar heating, writes Oliver Tickell - even though it's meant to be at the core of the government's renewable energy strategy.
… to end support for solar thermal hot water heating - at the very time as, says the … use of solar thermal panels to provide hot water in some of our existing housing schemes … solar thermal to contribute not just to hot water but also space heating (such as central …
The construction of the Don Sahong Dam in Laos PDR must be halted until full information on the project's impacts - in particular the fate of millions of fish that migrate each year through the Hou Sahong channel now being dammed - has been published, writes the Save the Mekong Coalition in this open letter sent today to the project developers.
… Coalition | 17th November 2016 Activism Water Laos Hydropower Renewables Fishing Food Indigenous Peoples don-sahong-water-cut.jpg The construction of the Don … The Corner House (United Kingdom) Tonle Sap Waterkeepers Alliance (Cambodia) Vietnam …
B9 Shipping and the Greenheart project are pioneering new, fully sustainable, forms of ship design. Despite industry scepticism the boats - based on wind power and biomethane - could signify a return to the great age of sail, reports Ewan Kingston
… B9 aim to have demonstration vessels in the water within two years, and production could … be stretched out on deck or even over the water, but stowed away when deck space is … into a desalinator to produce drinking water. The whole design is aimed at using …