Analysis: Search for rare earth substitutes gathers pace
By Braden Reddall and Julie Gordon (Reuters) – The hunt for substitutes for rare earth minerals is gaining momentum as auto makers, lighting companies and clean tech developers seek to reduce their reliance on thin and unreliable supplies of the raw material. A piece of bastnasite ore, which contains rare earth elements, is shown by Brock O’Kelly More...
INDIA’S ENERGY FAMINE 2: TOWARDS A SOLAR WORLD
Exploitation of solar can transform India from an energy starved to an energy abundant country. It will mean new ways of generating power as well as changes in lifestyle in homes and workplaces. More than money, More...
India’s Energy Famine 1— The Solar Promise
This is first of two parts article by Navaratna Srinivas Rajaram India may be on the brink of an energy famine. Solar power used in conjunction with existing power plants and the proposed river linking network More...
International Electric Vehicle Racing Championships Envisioned
Strategic sustainability project specialists Quimera, the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) and the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron (ALMS) will form a joint venture combining their More...
Hydrogen Economy
The concept of the hydrogen economy (HE), in which hydrogen would replace the carbon-based fossil fuels of the twentieth century was first mooted in the 1970s. Today, HE is seen as a potential solution to the dual More...
Obama blow to Ocean Wildlife
SAN FRANCISCO — President Barack Obama today announced a plan to take the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) out of the Commerce Department and house it within the Department of the Interior. More...
‘Happy’ Bhutan alarmed by Himalayan climate change
Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley, pictured here on August 22, has issued a dire warning about the impact of Himalayan climate change, saying it could wreck the tiny kingdom’s ambitious plans to be More...
Scientists find underground river beneath Amazon
An overview of an area in the Amazon rain forest in northern Brazil, in 2005. Brazilian scientists have discovered an underground river some 4,000 meters (13,000) feet deep, which flows from west to east like More...
New study shows that Florida’s reefs cannot endure a ‘cold snap’
Remember frozen iguanas falling from trees during Florida’s 2010 record-breaking cold snap? Well, a new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric More...
Carbon Concerns
By Venkata Vemuri Hypocrisy turned green in Britain last week. Prince Charles and Prime Minister Gordon Brown came in for media criticism for taking separate, private aircraft to Copenhagen for the global environment More...
