Climate Pulse

Soldiers struggle to clean the Qingdao coast during a similar algae bloom in 2008. Image credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Qingdao, China, is famous for its temperate sea air and "Tsingtao" beer but, during the summer, the gentle coast becomes a fertile bed for massive, smelly, algae blooms. The last... [continue]

Images via Vac from the Sea project Electrolux is known for pushing the envelope on design, including sustainable design. And their latest project has our full attention. Pointing out that there isn't enough recycled plastic on land to supply demand, Electrolux is backing a project that would pull... [continue]

Image credit D. Küttel / ETH Zurich; via PhysOrg ETH researchers Daniel Küttel and Michael Breitenstein teamed up with professors Luc Van Gool and Vittorio Ferrari from the Institute of Image Processing to create a new software program that can learn from watching moving objects, analyzing things... [continue]

Image via FTC Late last year we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission proposed a new label for compact fluorescent lightbulbs that would show vital statistics like mercury content and the light output in terms of lumens rather than watts, which would make the brightness of CFLs, LEDs and... [continue]

Photo via [jeremy] The security of the smart grid, from privacy and ownership of personal information among consumers to hackers' ability to fell the entire grid in one sweep of malicious code, has been a hotly debated topic since the smart grid's earliest days. So it is no surprise to hear that... [continue]

Photo of solar-powered mototaxi by Universidad Nactional in Lima. What's worse about the two-stroke engines still common workhorses in motors of all kinds - the pollution or the noise? In Lima, Peru, plagued by air pollution, it's probably the former. An ingenious professor at the University of San... [continue]

Image credit:mi2g.com If one faction of the deepwater drilling debate continues to deny any serious risk of more exploratory drilling - an example of this denial would be the court injunction, just now successfully obtained by oil industry attorneys, overturning the Federal exploratory drilling... [continue]

Photo via Ale1980Italy A new study has once again confirmed what we already knew -- that the vast, vast majority of scientists working in the field are convinced by the evidence that there is human-induced climate change. This latest analysis is one of the largest surveys yet attempted, and... [continue]

Image credit: stevendepolo/Flickr With water shortages constraining food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity over the last half-century. Since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain, it is... [continue]

Photo: Watercone Passive Solar One Step Water Condensation FTW! We wrote about the Watercone back in 2004, but considering how much TreeHugger's audience has grown since then, it's likely that only a handful of you were reading the site back then. I think it's time to have a second look at this... [continue]