Mounting concern about U.S. dependence on foreign oil and about global warming is causing a surge of interest and investment in biomass, hydrogen, solar power and other alternative energy sources. But ...

A blob of algae scooped from a fountain on South Street almost two years ago, has seeded a crop of the green stuff that Drexel University researchers claim is more effective at treating wastewater ...

The National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts (NAABB) is a consortium of government laboratories, universities and private industry headed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The ...

Scientists have designed a way to power small devices out of pond scum -- which they believe could be a more "practical" solution than lithium ion batteries. Paolo Bombelli/University of Cam This ...

At Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, there’s lots of talk about the benefits of eating a raw vegan diet. If you’ve been following our series over the past few weeks, you’ve learned a ...

Got algae? It could fuel your car one day. Carmela Cuomo, coordinator of the University of New Haven's marine biology program, is taking a closer look at whether algae in Long Island Sound can be ...

The article describing the potential use of pumping CO2 underground prompts me to provide an alternative, and perhaps less costly, way of sequestering carbon exhausted from industrial sources (HCN, ...

State park officials have found pond scum on the waters of Lake Superior, a discovery that might be linked to warmer water temperatures. A Wisconsin Public Radio report says about two miles of ...