IBM is helping cities worldwide get "smarter" about using resources in ways that are good for the Earth as well as local budgets.

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Dec 13, 2010 3 / 5 (1) 0

Construction of a fuel cell with enough capacity to power 2,800 homes has begun on the UC San Diego campus as part of a renewable energy project with the city of San Diego and BioFuels Energy to turn waste ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Dec 08, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A common group of bacteria found in acid bogs and sewage treatment plants has provided scientists with evidence of a ‘missing link’ in one of the most important steps in the evolution ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Dec 07, 2010 3.9 / 5 (13) 24 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published in the journal Science suggests the risks to the environment of nanosilver used in consumer goods should be examined more stringently.

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Nov 22, 2010 5 / 5 (4) 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can sinking geothermal heat pumps into waste water treatment plant aeration ponds provide heating and cooling to lower the plant's energy costs?

Technology - Engineering

Nov 03, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

A study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and cooperators provides new details about how fertilizing soils with biosolids also introduces triclosan -- an antibacterial agent in soaps and other cleaning supplies ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 10, 2010 not rated yet 0

Within the sludge of wastewater treatment plants is an invisible world teeming with microbes. Here, diverse species of bacteria convert solid and liquid wastes into gases, some of which contribute to global ...

Technology - Engineering

Jul 26, 2010 5 / 5 (9) 2 |

(AP) -- Federal researchers studying a natural gas drilling technique that involves blasting chemical-laced water into the ground got an earful from residents who say it's poisoning them and killing their animals and from ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 23, 2010 not rated yet 3

Male fish are taking longer to be "feminized" by chemical contaminants that act as hormone disrupters in Colorado's Boulder Creek following the upgrade of a wastewater treatment plant in Boulder in 2008, according ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 21, 2010 3.7 / 5 (3) 4 |

Researchers at Siemens have developed a portable biochip laboratory system for quickly checking water for pollutants. The tests use the reaction of antibodies to certain hormones, pesticides, antibiotics, ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Jun 15, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 1

Scientists are reporting evidence that certain ingredients in shampoo, detergents and other household cleaning agents may be a source of precursor materials for formation of a suspected cancer-causing contaminant ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 26, 2010 not rated yet 0

Nearly 1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. The problem is particularly dire in Ghana, where diarrhea causes 25 percent of all deaths of children below the age of five each year, according ...

Technology - Engineering

Apr 30, 2010 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

A unique three-year longitudinal and vertical study of Central New York's Three Rivers system—involving the Oswego, Oneida and Seneca rivers—has revealed that oxygen resources have become degraded by several ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 29, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0

Just south of Rome lie the Pontine Marshes, a vexed part of the Italian countryside. In ancient times, Roman emperors tried unsuccessfully to drain the marshes, something only achieved in the 1930s through a system of massive ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 07, 2010 4.5 / 5 (4) 2

Scientists are reporting evidence that certain ingredients in shampoo, detergents and other household cleaning agents may be a source of precursor materials for formation of a suspected cancer-causing contaminant ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 07, 2010 4.3 / 5 (4) 0