Sustainable Transport is sometimes known as Green Transport and it is any form of transport that does not use or rely on dwindling natural resources. Instead it relies on renewable or regenerated ...

Dicraeosaurus dinosaur via Shutterstock Huge dinosaurs stored vital minerals in bones under their skin (osteoderms) to help them survive, a study has found. These 'skin bones' helped some of the ...

Anyone who's ever visited a penguin exhibit at the zoo probably knows the cute little sea birds have a distinct, shall we say pungent, smell to them. But new research indicates that they while they ...

Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: A new solar plant that produces enough energy to power 26,000 households has begun operating in Spain. The first of two parabolic 50MW trough plants, called Helios 1, is ...

Acid rain via Shutterstock A long-term study on acidic rainfall has been carried out by researchers at the University of Illinois. It shows that emissions regulations do indeed appear to have a real ...

Elephants have evolved a novel strategy for regulating body temperature, which allows them to endure soaring temperatures during the day without succumbing to heat stress. Scientists at the University ...

With the use of cells in watches, road signs, buoys and on your local rooftops, the future of the PV (photovoltaic) cell seems assured to be in all of our futures. To utilise the 1KW of energy per m2 ...

The Prof has already demonstrated how jeans could have the titanium dioxide integrated in their fabric to clean up the city. The name of the miniscule nanoparticles of the commercial product is Catcio ...

Delicate fluttering wings, fascinating hovering motions, dainty, beautiful yet extremely precious in indicating the health of ecosystems, and overall environmental quality, dragonflies are one of ...

A common chemical used in thousands of products to help save us from fire, and which has even passed into human body fluids, could be killing fish say scientists. Baylor University environmental ...

Every cow, on average, produces 80kg to 100kg (CH4) of methane per year, a gas that has the nasty habit of depleting the ozone layer. The reason for this is enteric - in other words, it's related to ...

Researchers have probed the depths under Antarctic ice to reveal a map of the Gamburtsev Mountains (see inset to the right); Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation, Gamburtsev topography ...