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Related: environmentMore Americans Work in Solar Power Than for Apple, Facebook, and Google Combined In Brief Following an amazing 30-fold increase in PV sales over the past nine years, the solar industry in the U.S. now employs more than 260,000 workers nationwide. That’s more workers than Apple, Facebook, and Google combined. Numbers Don’t Lie Anyone watching the solar market has seen an amazing increase in solar photovoltaics (PV) sales over the past nine years, and GTM Research reports that the industry is still growing during the first quarter of 2017. In just under a decade, the solar market has experienced a 30-fold increase, and 2016 alone saw a notable surge in annual global PV demand in excess of 50 percent over the previous year.
Gulf's dolphins pay heavy price for Deepwater oil spill A study of bottlenose dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, showed that many of the marine mammals were suffering from lung and liver disease. Photograph: Alamy A new study of dolphins living close to the site of North America's worst ever oil spill – the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe two years ago – has established serious health problems afflicting the marine mammals. WOW! This Woman Walked the Equivalent of Half of Earth's Circumference to Raise Awareness About Water Pollution - One Green Planet When Josephine Mandamin, an elder of the Anishinaabe Indian tribe, decided to take a walk around Lake Superior in 2003, it was much more than just your average stroll: Mandamin set out to journey around the lake with the goal of spreading awareness about how human actions are polluting our water, thus making it and, in turn, ourselves sick. Since then, the amazing Mandamin has walked an estimated 25,000 kilometers — the equivalent of half of Earth’s circumference — to promote the importance of saving our water. In recent years, her unending devotion to educating people on how fracking, pollution, and other human activities are jeopardizing one of our most precious resources has inspired many others to walk along with her.
Emails expose BP's attempts to control research into impact of Gulf oil spill A clean-up operation on Queen Bess Island, June 2010. BP pledged a $500m fund for independent research into the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP BP officials tried to take control of a $500m fund pledged by the oil company for independent research into the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, it has emerged. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show BP officials openly discussing how to influence the work of scientists supported by the fund, which was created by the oil company in May last year.
Genius 6th grader invents device that hunts for ocean microplastics As one of 10 finalists of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, 12-year-old Anna Du will now get the chance to bring her invention to the seas. One day while visiting Boston Harbor, young Anna Du noticed bits of plastic in the sand. She tried picking them up, but there was so much, she tells Boston25 News, that "it just seemed impossible to clean it all up." What's a 12-year-old animal lover concerned about the impact of ocean plastic to do?
A Revolution in Heavy Oil Technology Canada's oil and gas industry is committed to responsible water use and we have made significant progress in reducing our use of fresh water. In situ, or underground, production technologies have been used in the oil sands for decades to extract bitumen that’s too deep to mine – a full 80 per cent of the resource in Northern Alberta lies deep below the surface. Other in situ production processes, such as steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) use natural gas to heat water into steam which is pumped through a horizontal well underground to heat and loosen the bitumen. The bitumen drains into a second horizontal well and is pumped to the surface. While some water is lost in the process, most of it is recycled.
Groundbreaking 'spinning' wind turbine wins UK Dyson award A ‘spinning’ turbine which can capture wind travelling in any direction and could transform how consumers generate electricity has won its two student designers a prestigious James Dyson award. Nicolas Orellana, 36, and Yaseen Noorani, 24, both MSc students at Lancaster University, have created the O-Wind Turbine which – in a technological first – takes advantage of both horizontal and vertical winds without requiring steering. Conventional wind turbines only capture wind travelling in one direction, and are notoriously inefficient in cities where wind trapped between buildings becomes unpredictable, making the turbines unusable. In 2015 the controversial “Walkie Talkie” skyscraper on London’s Fenchurch Street was thought responsible for creating a wind tunnel which knocked down shop signs and even toppled pedestrians.
2014 Dear Prospective Attendee, It is my pleasure and privilege to personally invite you to attend the 2014 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC), to be held in Savannah, Georgia, May 5-8, 2014. This conference will continue the IOSC's tradition of providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and lessons learned from actual spill responses and research around the world. As many of you have experienced, this conference is an ideal environment for government agencies and industry to work together toward mutual objectives. The IOSC provides a vital forum for professionals from the international response community, private sector, government, and non-governmental organizations to come together to tackle the greatest challenges facing us with sound science, practical innovation, social engineering, and imagination. In the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident , we find ourselves at an unprecedented and exciting moment in oil spill preparedness and response. Best regards, Peter K.
Human Poop-Powered Bus Hits UK Roads You wouldn’t think that human poop has many uses, but it turns out that the UK is using brown to go green. As of today, Britain’s first “poo bus” will be shuttling passengers between the city of Bath and Bristol Airport. And yes, you guessed it: it’s powered by human waste, alongside food waste. This “Bio-bus” runs on biomethane gas, which is produced from the treatment of human sewage and food that is unsuitable for human consumption. 2014 - Exhibitors and Sponsors The Exposition trade show is an integral part of the IOSC program. Suppliers of the world display and demonstrate state-of-the-art equipment, products and services related to the diversity, nature and geographic location of environmental spills. Plan now to exhibit at IOSC 2014.
Not enough plastic recycling plants in the UK - News - Ecosurety UK’s plastics recycling industry will remain murky unless Government steps in to mend market The UK is presently nowhere near ready to create the number of recycling plants required should the Government decide that all plastic waste must now be recycled on home soil. The country will therefore need to continue to export its plastic waste overseas and/or incinerate it in the near to mid future, while recycling capacity and the market for plastics is built up in the UK. The Government also needs to urgently assess the current PRN system (Packaging Recovery Note System) which enables exporters to gain up to 50% more PRNs for exporting mixed waste, placing UK reprocessors at a business-critical disadvantage. The comments by managing director James Piper come after an investigation by Sky News on Wednesday 24 January, which provided shocking evidence on the impact of exported British-collected plastics on countries such as China, Thailand and Poland.
TransRec Oil Skimmer Systems The TransRec system is the most complete solution for oil recovery. Its outstanding performance and multi-purpose design make it the world's leading tool for oil recovery at sea. In addition to oil recovery the system can be used for transfer of recovered oil and for emergency off-loading of stranded vessels. Meat-free diets could cut our 'water footprint' in half, say scientists Three thousand litres of water – that is the amount needed to produce the food each British person eats every day. This is according to a new study into the “water footprint” of diets in Western Europe, conducted by the European Commission and published in Nature Sustainability. The term “carbon footprint”, which accounts for all the emissions of CO₂ associated with the manufacture or production of an item, has become commonplace in recent years.