Courtesy of UBC University of British Columbia researchers have found that when the animals at the top of the food chain are removed, freshwater ecosystems emit a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. “Predators are disappearing from our ecosystems at alarming rates because of hunting and fishing pressure and because of human induced changes [...]

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Courtesy of UBC – By Salina Marshall Katie O’Callaghan never imagined that her graduate studies in community and regional planning would involve police car chases. “It was exciting,” she says of riding in a squad car alongside officers. But the University of British Columbia student wasn’t in it for the action. Rather, she was interested [...]

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Courtesy of Arizona State University ASU researchers have developed a new software system capable of estimating greenhouse gas emissions across entire urban landscapes, all the way down to roads and individual buildings. Until now, scientists quantified carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at a much broader level. In a new BreakThrough Science video posted on the American [...]

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Courtesy of American Friends of Tel Aviv University TAU team uses NASA satellites to measure pollution hovering over world’s megacities The thickest layers of global smog — caused by traffic, industry, and natural minerals, among other factors — are found over the world’s megacities. But getting an accurate measurement of pollution is no easy task. [...]

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Courtesy of The University of British Columbia University of British Columbia researchers have invented a safe, efficient technology to wirelessly charge electric vehicles using “remote magnetic gears” – and successfully tested it on campus service vehicles. “Wireless charging has been a much sought-after technical solution for everything from cell phones to electric cars,” says UBC [...]

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Courtesy of UC Berkeley News Center By Sarah Yang Are gasoline-fueled cars or large diesel trucks the bigger source of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), a major component of smog? UC Berkeley researchers have stepped into this debate with a new study that says diesel exhaust contributes 15 times more than gas emissions per liter of [...]

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By G. Rendell That’s not the amount of CO2 you emit each and every day, but it might just be the amount you’re responsible for. One of the challenges with getting people (including, but by no means limited to, students) to really believe in the impact of greenhouse gases is that the one everybody talks [...]

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From the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 50-Year Model Suggests Regional Pollution Obscured a Global Trend Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created a “warming hole” over the eastern United States—that is, a cold patch where the [...]

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Electric cars are lighting up the North American International Auto Show.  The atmosphere is exceedingly electric at Cobo Hall in Detroit as car manufacturers kick off 2012 with a shot of green.  This year’s new offerings  show that style is not going to take a back seat to function.  There’s a green gull wing from [...]

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Butte College’s 25,000 solar panels generate 6.5 million KWH of electricity, enough to power the campus and feed the excess back into the grid. California’s Butte College has become the first college in the United States to produce more electricity than it consumes — and it’s all clean, renewable, solar-generated energy. The result of a [...]

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