Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been taking up green ventures for long. But, its recent initiative deserves a real appreciation! The world's leading retailer has come up with an ambitious campaign of selling 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs)...
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After the plan to use honey bees to sniff off explosive-vapor pollutants, protecting people from the poisonous chemicals, including chemical weapons, scientists have come up with another innovative product capable of keeping out phosphorus ester-based...
Many more people would be likely to refuel their cars with bio-diesel. But, most of them don’t know where to find a filling! Internet? But again, Internet isn't readily accessible at all times you need one!
Never mind! Here is a readily...
Scientists have developed a new flood-tolerant rice variety that can also be a potential weapon to fight against both crop-ravaging weeds and water pollution.
Ready to make its way from the lab to the field, it will be a great gift and relief to...
US, already with the strongest-performing single BMW market, will get the brand’s performance-oriented and efficient Diesel engines in 2008. The engines have already built their repute in Europe for their unique synthesis of dynamic performance and also...
Sustainable living is another eco-friendly lifestyle. To help save the world’s forests from the paper industry or the landfills of the soaring waste papers, Xerox scientists have invented an "erasable paper"! Prints can be made on such papers, in a...
As the concerns for health-crisis, especially obesity, are increasing across the world, so is for the environment suffering from global warming led mostly by car emissions containing greenhouse gases.
How would it be, if both the concerns are...
A new boiler plant at Övik Energi will be powered with biofuel! And the supply for this large power plant will be made by Aker Kvaerner, which has been awarded $50m for the job. The boiler plant is being built close to the town of Örnsköldsvik,...
Very soon, honey bee will be assisting our U.S. military defense troops abroad by sniffing out explosives used in bombs! True, it sounds a bit weird! But, the defense scientists there are trying to do just that.
Bees have an exceptional olfactory...
General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and BMW AG will unveil their new eco-friendly concept cars at Los Angeles Auto Show soon. All these vehicles powered by alternative fuels will also include brands like DaimlerChrysler AG and Volkswagen AG with...
A new easily affordable satellite-based information system -- GEONETCast system -- is being developed and to be unveiled today at an international conference in Bonn, Germany.
It can spread environmental and health data across the world quickly –...
A new form of solar cell is being devised to help make solar energy commercially feasible. To make the present solar cells more than doubly efficient, a University of Idaho professor with her team are working to create better materials, combining...
Coal emissions are considered among the dirtiest of fossil fuels, a big source of gases leading to global warming. So, many countries are trying to find ways to clean up these emissions in a race likely to yield billions of dollars for the best...
Forget the heavy metal and expansive storage and transportation of hydrogen. Scientists are coming up with conformable polymeric-foam microstructures for on-board storage of hydrogen.
The new ‘Hydrostatic Pressure Retainment Microstructure’ stores the...
A £30m plan has been launched to create an eco-friendly business park in north Kent. The new sustainable construction centre— SusCon -- is scheduled to open by 2010. The center will have laboratories for researching and designing new energy-efficient...
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