Created for the Evolo Skyscraper Design Competition, the Gyre Seascraper is a floating zero emissions eco-development from Zigloo Design, a Canadian based company. Only at the conception stages this underwater skyscraper was created to bring both scientists and tourists together to better understand the ocean.
The multi-level design spanning 52.3 acres, uses wind, solar, and tidal [...]

Although, Haiti is looking at a long road to recovery due to the recent earthquakes there, the abundance of sun the country gets makes solar power a viable option to restoring their power infrastructure.
Many non profits as well as solar power companies are facing on binging solar-powered equipment capable of providing essential needs like drinkable [...]

The global engineering company Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr (IAV) has a plan to get crafty with our roadways. This company is working on a way to refuel electric cars while they are both driving and parked via road embedded solar panels and piezoelectric generators.
In execution, the transfer of energy from the solar track to the [...]

Burr. It’s getting chilly out there, but thanks to the German designer Yiran Qian’s dream of an “Endless Warm: you will never have to have frozen fingers again. Yiran conceptualized the integration of solar panels into winter hats and gloves for Design Boom’s Green Life Design Competition. And even though this is still just in [...]

Google Earth has unveiled a crystal-ball like feature that will predict what planet will look like up to the year 2100. Using data provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Google has created a new 3D mapping program that will show the range of expected climate change under different global emissions scenarios that could [...]

The Wide Area Search for Planets, a consortium of British universities, discovered a new planet they have dubbed WASP-17. The planet orbits in the reverse direction as the star it revolves around, which is the opposite of every other known planet in the universe.
“Newly formed solar systems can be violent places,” Astronomer David Anderson of [...]

Stargazers will be treated to the most spectacular part of an ongoing meteor shower on Tuesday night. The Perseid meteor shower, a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle, occurs every August and this year, the show begins after [...]

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 will be a memorable day for those who live in Asia - as they’ll witness the longest solar eclipse in the 21st century, lasting for six minutes and 39 seconds. The eclipse will reach this six-minute maximum duration point over the Pacific Ocean.
The eclipse will be visible in and around central [...]

In what could be the most ambitious renewable-energy projects to be launched, twelve of Europe’s largest blue chip firms have signed an agreement to build a $555 billion solar thermal project in the Sahara desert.
In a bid to pump clean power, the project named “Desertec” has outlined plans that will scatter for hundreds of thermal [...]

Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice-chairman of China’s national development and reform commission said that Beijing would easily surpass Europe’s current 2020 targets for the use of wind and solar power hoping to now reach targets three times higher. This is a part of China’s ambitious plans to increase in its use of wind and solar power over [...]