A team of researchers are asking the public to help them locate and count all the sources of CO2 coming from power plants on the planet. Called Ventus: Global Citizens Powering Solutions in Climate Change, the team of scientists from Arizona State University are crowdsourcing the info

Off-the-grid solar power is one of the solutions that could dramatically alter the lives of an estimated 1.5 billion humans who today have no access to electricity. Of these 80% come from countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. And of that 89% of the 80% live in rural areas ve

It’s official. The observatory atop Mauna Loa in Hawaii recorded on Thursday this week that we had reached 400.08 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere. It was barely a week ago that I wrote about following the Keeling Curve on Twitter. And if you subscribed this week then

Another interesting week of technology and science announcements has led me to pick the following five stories:   World’s Biggest Companies Tackling Climate Change; Idaho Potato Gets Better by Mixing Genes from Five Spud Varieties; Google Timelapse Shows Decades of Planetar

Back in the 1970s “experts” unequivocally stated that the world would run out of oil early in the 21st century. Of course they were looking at recoverable oil from traditional exploratory technology at the time. Today, however, it seems we are awash with the stuff. This is

There is a finite amount of arable land on which to raise food crops and livestock on our planet. There is only so much freshwater to go around. So if today we are struggling to feed more than 1 billion of the 7 billion on Earth, what do we need to do to ensure that 2.5 billion more m

I don’t know how I missed this gadget which one a design award back in 2010. It is called the DewBank and it is biomimetic device that collects and channels water into a bottle even in a desert climate. Simply place the stainless steel device on a flat, windless area in the even

Can one describe a society that is focuses on innovation in terms of ecology? Ecology by definition is a branch of biology that studies species within the larger context of the environment, how the species interact with each other and their surroundings. A branch of ecology called hum

This week’s roundup of stories include:   Mystery remains around honeybee deaths; Researchers discover hypothalamus key to slowing aging and cognitive decline; New 3D-printed ear combines biology and electronics; After 105 years first Tunguska meteorite fragments discovered

The Earth inhales and exhales cyclically. In the northern winter when plants are dormant CO2 spikes while the opposite occurs on the southern half of the planet. We have been measuring Earth’s breaths at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii since 1958. Today our world is exhaling