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Forest-sourced biofuel is bad for the environment, new study warns


A new study from the University of California, Davis, provides a deeper understanding of the complex global impacts of deforestation on greenhouse gas emissions. The study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, reports that the vol…

US consumers willing to pay 13% more to support a clean energy standard


The average US citizen is willing to pay 13 percent more for electricity in support of a national clean-energy standard (NCES), according to new research published by Yale and Harvard researchers. Americans, on average, are willing to pay $162 per yea…

Scientists create constant supply of sterile water using sunlight and air


Researchers at the University of Hull are developing a way to produce constant supplies of sterile water, powered simply by sunlight and air. The device is aimed at remote communities where conventional systems using chemicals or electricity are not a …

How Can we Separate Man Made Greenhouse Gases from Those Naturally Occurring?


A research team has developed a new monitoring system to analyze and compare emissions from man-made fossil fuels and trace gases in the atmosphere, a technique that likely could be used to monitor the effectiveness of measures regulating greenhouse ga…

Rivers flowing into the sea offer vast potential as carbon-free energy source


A new genre of electric power-generating stations could supply electricity for more than a half billion people by tapping just one-tenth of the global potential of a little-known energy source that exists where rivers flow into the ocean, a new analysi…

Forestry biomass will increase greenhouse gas emissions, study warns


A large, global move to produce more energy from forest biomass may be possible and already is beginning in some places, but scientists say in a new analysis that such large-scale bioenergy production from forest biomass is unsustainable and will incre…

Europe steps up challenge over China’s rare metal restrictions


The European Union today launched a second challenge of China’s export restrictions on raw materials including 17 rare earths, as well as tungsten and molybdenum, that are critical in the development of green technology. Together with the US and Japan…

New UK strategy looks to reduce costs of offshore wind power


A new strategy to co-ordinate links to offshore wind farms has been published which could reduce the cost of connections by up to £3.5 billion. Energy regulator Ofgem and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have today published a repor…

European nations will have to set legally binding targets on energy efficiency


European countries will have to set themselves legally binding national energy efficiency targets, and save energy by specific means such as renovating public buildings, under a draft EU directive approved by a European Parliament committee today. The…

World’s biggest offshore wind farm officially connected to the Grid


The world’s biggest offshore wind farm was officially opened today after record-fast construction in the middle of the Irish Sea. The 102 turbines of the two connected Walney wind farms cover an area of 73 square-kilometres and were formally connected…