GrahamHancockDotCom | By: Luke Hancock & Echan Deravy | GPE – April 02, 2018: Pollack Laboratory ~ uncovering nature’s deeply held secrets. Dr. Gerald Pollack maintains an active laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of WATER: A Multidisciplinary Research Journal; Executive Director of Read more…
Jeunes Patriotes Congolais | GPE – March 21, 2018: The video (in French) presents the work of Jérôme Munyangi, a Congolese Physician-Researcher based in Maniema for the purpose of finding a healing plant that will be effective against malaria. A team of Democratic Republic of Congo doctors, Jerome Munyangi and Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | February 04, 2018: When Elon Musk offered to build what would be the largest grid storage battery installation in the world in South Australia last year, he set off a chain of events that may have implications for the entire world. In a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Keiko Morris | February 04, 2018: Wood’s ability to create a warm environment appeals to tech companies, a plus for a city on Amazon’s HQ2 shortlist. In the contest to attract office tenants, many developers stick with the tried-and-true combination of concrete, steel and Read more…
Return To Now | By: Sara Burrows | GPE – February 04, 2018: After thousands of years of turning the soil upside-down, farmers are finally realizing they’re killing the microorganisms that keep soil alive… Faced with losing the farm, more and more are converting to the ancient “no-till” methods of Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Owen Agnew | February 02, 2018: More than four months after Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico, over 450,000 people are still without power. For critical facilities like hospitals, the lack of electricity has meant cutting services and relying on generators until power is restored. Nexus Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | February 02, 2018: Tesla has booked pre-orders for its all-electric Semi heavy duty trucks from at least 9 major corporations. Now, some of those companies are planning how they will charge those trucks once they arrive. In particular, Anheuser Busch and United Parcel Read more…
The Guardian | By: Calla Wahlquist | January 31, 2018: Climate experiment shows trees release water but stop absorbing carbon in extreme heat. Australian researchers growing trees in climate change conditions have found the leaves “sweat” to survive extreme heatwaves. The year-long experiment showed that trees continue to release water Read more…
Clean Technica | By: George Harvey | January 24, 2018: The design for a community microgrid project that is forming in Warner, New Hampshire, seems rather prosaic at first glance. It is simple, with a few buildings, some solar panels, batteries, inverters, and all the regular gear. It seems an Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Andrew Wu, Sofia Faruqi, Andrés Anchondo Ortega and Eriks Brolis | GPE – January 23, 2018: An estimated 15 billion trees are cut down each year—more than 41 million per day. Given this pace of land degradation, it’s hard to imagine how traditional reforestation methods, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | January 22, 2018: The world’s biggest air purifier has been constructed in the city of Xian in Shaanxi province, which is located in the northern part of the country. Standing 100 meters high, the tower uses heat from the sun to create an Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Newley Purnell | January 22, 2018: The country, newly online, has become obsessed with sending cheery greetings from smartphones, causing head scratching in Silicon Valley. Google researchers in Silicon Valley were trying to figure out why so many smartphones were freezing up half a Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Dylan McConnell | January 17, 2018: It’s just over one month since the Hornsdale Power Reserve was officially opened in South Australia at the Hornsdale wind farm. The excitement surrounding the project has generated acres of media interest, both locally and abroad. The aspect that Read more…
Renewable Energy World | Bloomberg | By: Brian Eckhouse | GPE – January 13, 2018: Tesla Inc. has kicked off production of its long-awaited electricity-producing shingles that Elon Musk says will transform the rooftop solar industry. Originally published January 09, 2018: Manufacturing of the photovoltaic glass tiles began last month Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Brady Dennis | January 08, 2018: This map (above) shows changes in the salt content of fresh water in rivers and streams across the United States over the past half-century. Warmer colors indicate increasing salinity, while cooler colors indicate decreasing salinity. The black dots represent Read more…
USGS | GPE – January 08, 2018: Snow-affected urban areas are particularly vulnerable. A U.S. Geological Survey report finds that many U.S. rivers are becoming increasingly salty, which contributes to corrosion in water distribution systems. Concentrations of chloride—a main component of salt—and other measures of potential corrosivity increased in many Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tim Dixon | January 06, 2018: China’s King of the electric vehicle world. It has more electric car sales than the rest of the world combined. One city now has over 16,000 electric buses in service — 100% of its fleet — and other cities are Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jack Nicas | January 04,2018: Several tech firms were notified of the vulnerabilities in June 2017. The disclosure of security flaws in computer chips dealt Intel Corp. what seemed like a sudden crisis, but behind the scenes it and other tech companies and experts Read more…
Business Insurance | Reuters | January 04, 2018: Security researchers on Wednesday disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and ARM Holdings. One of the bugs is Read more…
Inc.com | By: Lauren Barack | GPE – January 03, 2018: If you think drones aren’t for your business – well, these founders once thought that too. In late 2016, Michael E. Jordan wanted to boost holiday sales for his fledgling athletic-wear company, UNRL, which is based in St. Paul. Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Liu | December 31, 2017: China on Thursday opened a 1-km section solar expressway for testing. Solar panels are laid beneath part of a ring road surrounding Jinan, capital city of Shandong Province in east China. The road surface is made of a transparent, weight-bearing material that Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Mengjie | December 30, 2017: Beijing has built 112,600 charging poles for new energy cars as of the end of November, local authorities said Saturday. New energy vehicles can have acess to the charging pole service within five kilometers when they drive inside the Sixth Ring Road Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Yamei | December 31, 2017: Lurong Dregar, 19, had been suffering from severe headaches and seizures for years. The mystery illness even left the young Tibetan woman blind in her left eye. It was not until earlier this year when she underwent an MRI scan at a Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Zachary Shahan | December 30, 2017: We write a lot about electric vehicles here on CleanTechnica, because we’re a tech site. But some of the best ways to cut emissions involve no tech at all. One of the best things you can do to cut your Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 27, 2017: The shale gas fracking revolution that began in the United States a decade ago has been one of the worst disasters for the environment since our Canadian friends figured out how to extract oil from the Alberta tar sands. The Read more…
Shell Foundation & Grantham Institute | By: Various Authors | GPE – December 23, 2017: Executive Summary: Over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the deployment of solar home systems, and rural utilities coupled with electrical energy storage devices, enabling off grid access to energy and Read more…
The Guardian | By: Fiona Harvey | December 21, 2017: Researchers plotted temperature rises against the number of asylum applications and are predicting that as the southern hemisphere heats up the number of people migrating to the EU each year will triple. Climate change will drive a huge increase in Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | GPE – December 22, 2017: There is an ongoing struggle going on between solar developers and farmers. Land that is best for solar installations are often well suited to growing crops or raising animals. Some experiments are being conducted to bridge the needs Read more…
Reuters | By: Anjali Athavaley | December 13, 2017: AT&T Inc has started trials in Georgia state and a non-U.S. location to deliver high-speed internet over power lines, the No. 2 wireless carrier said on Wednesday, marking its latest push to offer faster broadband service to more customers. AT&T aims Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | December 12, 2017: Single use plastic bottles are strangling the earth’s ecosystems. Every plastic water or soda bottle that we buy contributes to ecological degradation in the form of micro plastic — those small particles of plastic that are often invisible to the Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | December 11, 2017: Artificial intelligence will always be a “work in progress” in fighting money laundering and won’t entirely replace humans and their intuition, a top UK regulator said. “Any bank hoping for a black box in the corner that will Read more…
Huffington Post | By: John J. Berger | GPE – December 10, 2017: On millions of acres of grazed American range land, if you plunge a shovel into the ground, you’re likely to find light-colored, depleted soil that’s lost much of its carbon-containing organic matter. That’s the stuff that gives Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 07, 2017: Southern California is in flames. Wildfires are raging just north of Los Angeles, destroying whole communities just a short drive from downtown LA. Consuming everything in their path, the fires are only extinguished when they reach the shores of the Read more…
Reuters | By: Timothy Gardner | December 05, 2017: Melting Arctic sea ice could render sun-soaked California vulnerable to a recurrence of the severe drought suffered in recent years as it is likely to cause high pressure systems that push away rain-bearing storms, a study released on Tuesday said. As Read more…
Amirix Systems | Press Release | GPE – December 06, 2017: Amirix Systems announced on November 30, 2017 that it has been acquired by US based InnovaSea Systems. Amirix is the parent company of Bedford, Nova Scotia based Vemco and Realtime Aquaculture and Seattle, Washington based HTI-Vemco. Vemco and HTI-Vemco Read more…
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) | By: Katherine Chrisman & Mark Porter | November 28, 2017: Over the past decade, China has become the world’s leader in wind and solar capacity. Traditionally, China’s electricity structure has been closed off to most forms of corporate renewable procurement. But as a growing number Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Kyle Field | November 28, 2017: We recently had the opportunity to speak with Craig Wooster, Project Manager & General Contractor at the Stone Edge Farm (SEF) Microgrid Project, about the impressive work the team is doing to take the farm off the grid with sustainable Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Susan Minnemeyer, Nancy Harris, & Octavia Payne | November 27, 2017: New analysis from The Nature Conservancy, WRI and others estimates that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost-effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tim Dixon | November 25, 2017: Bloomberg recently reported that Volkswagen has outlined its electric vehicle investments in China with an announcement of investment of $12 billion over the next 7 years with its Chinese joint venture partner JAC (Anhui Jianghuai Automobile). JAC, a relatively unknown Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | November 24, 2017: Solar panels are wonderful things, but they do take up a lot of space, especially for larger, utility-scale systems. In some densely populated countries like China and India, where loss of farmland can lead to hungry people, floating solar farms Read more…
Science Daily | Source: University Of Warwick | November 23, 2017: The smallest microplastics in our oceans — which go largely undetected and are potentially harmful — could be more effectively identified using an innovative and inexpensive new method, developed by researchers at the University of Warwick. New research, led Read more…
Regenesis Remediation Solutions | GPE – November 22, 2017: This video presents a case study of a site contaminated with PFAS, where PlumeStop® Liquid Activated Carbon™ from REGENESIS was injected in-situ, achieving excellent distribution through the subsurface to remove contaminants. Originally published October 02, 2017: Recently, PFAS contamination in groundwater Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – November 22, 2017: PFASs — used in clothing, carpets, cookware, and more — contaminate wells across the United States. Originally published April 18, 2017: The early 1990s were the start of a sizzling decade for ChemFab, a producer of specialized Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Steven Norton | November 15, 2017: The growing sophistication of fast-moving cyberattacks is forcing companies to employ similar technologies to defend themselves. Artificial intelligence, growing more potent and easier to use, threatens to compound the already considerable challenges companies face as they deal with Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Derek Markham | November 14, 2017: The race to electrify long haul trucking, as well as other heavy cargo carriers, is really starting to heat up, and although we’re all waiting for Musk to blow our minds clean out of our skulls with the Tesla semi Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jaideep Bansal | GPE – November 14, 2017: I was recently reading an article on the Grid of the Future where prosumers are both the producers and consumers of the power. It talks about how people will be able to use decentralized microgrids and not Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Runyon | November 13, 2017: The Microgrid 2017 conference, which ran from November 6-8 in Boston, kicked off with a list of events that point to a desperate need for microgrids, and I bet you’ve heard of them: February: 300,000 in Pennsylvania March: 800,000 Read more…
The New York Times | By: Scott Shane, Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sangernov | November 12, 2017: A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide. Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando, Fla., Read more…
Science Daily | By: Eric Sorensen – Washington State University | GPE – November 13, 2017: Researchers say landslides on logged forests will be more widespread as the Northwest climate changes. In a study modelled on clear-cut lands on the Olympic Peninsula, they anticipate the climate of 2045 and conclude Read more…
Clean Technica | By:Joshua S Hill | November 09, 2017: Making a global transition to a 100% renewable electricity grid has long been a dream of many, but new research published this week by the Lappeenranta University of Technology has proven it is no longer just a dream but a Read more…
Defense One | By: Patrick Tucker | GPE – November 12, 2017: A team of Chinese researchers say they have completed the first long-distance quantum secure direct communication, a critical step toward sending messages that are truly safe from eavesdropping. Here’s why that matters: The feat, if verified, marks a Read more…
Lazard | November 2017: Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy (“LCOE”) analysis addresses the following topics: Comparative “levelized cost of energy” analysis for various technologies on a $/MWh basis, including sensitivities, as relevant,for U.S. federal tax subsidies, fuel costs, geography and cost of capital, among other factors. Comparison of the implied Read more…
The Hindu | By: Staff Reporter | October 31, 2017: A group of biotechnologists from Vignan University have developed a model for conversion of domestic sewage water into biogas and bio-manure. Led by scientist M.S Shivakiran, Department of Biotechnology, VU, two students Manikanta and Ravichandra, the model has employed a Read more…
Gated Community | By: Molly Rubin | October 28, 2017: Five years ago, the coasts of New York and New Jersey were devastated by a rare late-October superstorm. On Oct. 29, 2012, a combination of record storm-wind area, a full-moon high tide, and poor infrastructure led to a devastating storm Read more…
Science Daily | By: American Chemical Society | October 18, 2017: Summary: Clean drinking water can be easy to take for granted if your home taps into treated water sources. But more than 44 million people in the U.S. get their water from private domestic wells, which are largely unregulated. Read more…
International Renewable Energy Agency | October 2017: Foreword: It is truly remarkable what a difference five years can make in the ongoing transformation of the energy sector. As recently as 2012, questions about high generation costs still overshadowed the rise of solar and wind power. But what was already clear, Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jack Nicas | October 16, 2017: The ultra-powerful machine has the potential to disrupt everything from science and medicine to national security—assuming it works. Hartmut Neven believes in parallel universes. On a recent morning outside Google’s Los Angeles office, the 53-year-old computer scientist was Read more…
Reuters | By: Reuters Staff | October 16, 2017: Cyber security watchdogs and researchers are issuing warnings over risks associated with a widely used system for securing Wi-Fi communications after the discovery of a flaw that could allow hackers to read information thought to be encrypted, or infect websites with Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Christopher Mims | October 15, 2017: A combination of solar power and the rise of residential energy storage paves the way for a new kind of cable cutting. In the near future, your home could be battery operated. This is especially true if you Read more…
MRO-Network | By: Lindsay Bjerregaard | Oct 13, 2017: A nonprofit focused on providing STEM education opportunities to veterans has just added 3D printing to its curriculum. San Diego-based Workshops for Warriors (WFW), which has been preparing veterans for careers in advanced manufacturing since 2008, recently teamed up with Stratasys Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Jim Robbins | October 12, 2017: In a development that has important implications for conservation, scientists are increasingly focusing not just on what species are present in an ecosystem, but on the roles that certain key species play in shaping their environment. In 1966, an Read more…
Nature Communications | By: Various Authors | October 09, 2017: Abstract: Diarrheal disease (DD) due to contaminated water is a major cause of child mortality globally. Forests and wetlands can provide ecosystem services that help maintain water quality. To understand the connections between land cover and childhood DD, we compiled Read more…
Xinhua| By: Guo Shuang | October 07, 2017: “I think the only problem we’re going to have is that I don’t know if we have enough people for all the jobs that are being created,” U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Friday in an event celebrating the opening of Read more…
Clean Technica | By Marlene Cimons | GPE – October 10, 2017: When the conversation turns to sources of clean renewable energy, evaporation usually isn’t the first thing to come up, if at all. Yet scientists think evaporation from US lakes and reservoirs could generate almost 70% of the power Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Matt Pressman | October 07, 2017: On the heels of Tesla’s continuing traction all across Australia, Musk recently attended a Powerpack unveiling at Noeon Hornsdale wind farm in Jamestown, South Australia. He announced Tesla was approximately 50% finished with the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery system. Just Read more…
Reuters | By: David Shepardson | October 07, 2017: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said late on Friday it had approved Alphabet Inc’s application to provide emergency cellular service to Puerto Rico through balloons. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico has struggled to regain communications services. The FCC Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Giles Parkinson | October 06, 2017: Elon Musk didn’t need 100 days after obtaining a connection agreement to switch on the Tesla big battery in South Australia. In fact, it took him less than 100 minutes. That’s how quickly the battery was up and running after Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Cynthia Shahan | October 06, 2017: The upside of Twitter showed in an exchange between Ricardo Rossello, the governor of Puerto Rico, and real-world Tony Stark Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Governor Rossello was seemingly sending a desperate plea of help to someone who gets turned to Read more…
Xinhua| By: Xu Xingtang & Yang Shilong | October 07, 2017: Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Beijing … wherever Avery Goldstein went in China, he saw the trademark orange and yellow bicycles of Mobike and Ofo, the Asian power’s top two bike-sharing heavyweights. “This is something a year ago I didn’t Read more…
Science News | By: Stanford University | October 05, 2017: Soil holds potential to slow global warming, researchers find. Summary: The land under our feet and the plant matter it contains could offset a significant amount of carbon emissions if managed properly. More research is needed to unlock soil’s potential Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Mahesh Bhave | October 04, 2017: Puerto Rico presents a near perfect opportunity to rebuild the electricity infrastructure from scratch in accord with technologies of the present — solar panels, batteries, wind turbines, and perhaps small generators — optimally combined in steps of 250 kW Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Gregory B. Poindexter | GPE – October 06, 2017: Results released from an Australian Renewable Energy Agency study indicate the possibility exists for the development of the 225-MW Cultana pumped storage hydropower facility located in South Australia’s Spencer Gulf. Originally published Ocrober 03, 2017: If Read more…
Clean Technica | By: John Farrell | October 05, 2017: Clean Technica Article 1: Electric cars aren’t new. At the dawn of the US auto industry in the late 1800s, electric vehicles outsold all other types of cars. By 1900, electric autos accounted for one-third of all vehicles on US Read more…
Defense One | By: Marcus Weisgerber | October 04, 2017: American automaker General Motors has produced a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered chassis that executives say could allow the U.S. military to move equipment and supplies around the battlefield more efficiently and safely. Called SURUS, for Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure, the vehicle resembles Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Irene Klotz | October 05, 2017: Iconoclastic SpaceX CEO wants to scrap successful Falcon rocket line to fund Mars dream. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk says he has fixed a fatal flaw in the interplanetary space transportation system unveiled during last year’s Read more…
Xinhua| Editor – An| October 05, 2017: A close China watcher said here Tuesday that if China keeps its current pace in innovative industrial development, the innovative activity share in its total output will likely surpass that of the United States in about 18 months. Daniel Rosen, founding partner of Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Dan Gallagher | October 03, 2017: Software giant has some natural advantages in VR, though marketing risks confusion. Don’t feel bad if you failed to notice. Starting with a consumer electronics trade show in Berlin last month and continuing through an event in San Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Dr, Andy Skumanich | GPE – October 04, 2017: “EV phone home” – Life without our mobile phone seems pretty unimaginable, doesn’t it? We now carry along our phone/camera/computer in our hands, and, if you want to believe a recent movie, some of us even Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Zachary Shahan | October 03rd, 2017: Two years ago in Florida, I gave a presentation at the EV Transportation & Technology Summit titled “EV R&D and the Future.” It was based on our first big EV driver report. Of all the interesting findings from the report, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | October 03rd, 2017: Before jumping into the broader Norway electric car story from Steve Hanley below, there are some amazing highlights out of Oslo that helpful CleanTechnica reader Are Hansen pointed out to us: 40% of new cars registered in Oslo in September Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | October 3rd, 2017: Following our earlier report about Ford possibly mass producing Deutsche Post DHL’s internally developed StreetScooter electric van, the company has revealed that it will be doubling its own production capacity and building a new factory in Dueren near Cologne. This Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Trefor Moss | October 02, 2017: Nearly half of all plug-in vehicles are sold in China, driven by relentless subsidies and regulations. China has created the world’s largest electric-car market by sheer force of will, a giant bet on domestic production that’s leaving major Read more…
European Space Agency | September 29, 2017: Above Photo: Health check for Thomas Pesquet using Tempus Pro. Tempus Pro, a portable vital-signs monitor offering telemedicine via satellite, is helping medics at ESA astronaut landings. Thomas Pesquet was the first to benefit at the end of his mission in May. Astronauts Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | September 28th, 2017: Landscape architects and clean tech? Sounds like the old nature-versus-society conundrum, doesn’t it? Well, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) says that homeowners can implement cutting-edge methods so that residential landscapes support the environment — no matter the location Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | September 28th, 2017: The Switzerland-based engineering giant ABB will be working with Northvolt on that company’s project to build what will reportedly be “Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery production plant.” That battery factory will be in Sweden. The planned facility is intended to help Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | September 27, 2017: A study released by the Carbon Disclosure Project this month finds that 103 cities around the world have a serious risk of flooding. Most of the problem can be traced directly to the increased use of concrete and asphalt since Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Yoko Kubota in Beijing & Trefor Moss | September 28, 2017: Auto makers will have to start manufacturing electric vehicles by 2019, after deadline was pushed back by one year. China will force auto makers to accelerate production of electric vehicles by 2019, a Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | September 28, 2017: Toxic emissions from common pipe repair are a health risk, researchers say. Just before lunch on September 21, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department responded to a report of three dozen ill students at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy, an elementary Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Victoria Moores | GPE – September 28, 2017: Flight crew training adapts to 21st century needs. The way flight crew trainees learn is changing as cockpit automation, the pilot’s role and the learning process itself reshape approaches to aviation training. Originally published August 23, 2017: Read more…
Le Temps | By: Julie Zaugg | GPE – September 28, 2017: The port city is one of the most threatened by global warming. But it has adopted a series of innovative measures to protect itself from floods and rising waters. Hong Kong is one of the cities most exposed Read more…
Renewable Energy World | GPE – September 28, 2017: A new survey conducted by public advocacy organization Climate Council found that about 75 percent of respondents in Australia expect that household battery storage will be “the new normal” within the next decade. Originally published September 25, 2017: The survey also Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Rachael Petersen and Lilian Pintea | September 26, 2017: Obed Kareebi, a ranger with the Uganda Wildlife Authority, marches through the dense forests of Kibale National Park in Uganda, an area with one of the highest concentrations of primates in the world. While the park Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: William Wilkes | GPE – September 25, 2017: Smaller German companies that help power the country’s export-driven economy are vulnerable, prompting the government to extend support. Originally published September 23, 2017: A wave of attacks by Chinese hackers on Germany’s cutting-edge manufacturers is raising Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Chester Dawson | GPE – September 24, 2017: As cars go increasingly digital—and connected—cybersecurity experts worry that they also are becoming a lot more vulnerable. Originally published September 17, 2017: Hackers may have a new target in their sights—one that’s just as central to Read more…
Office Of The Privacy Commissioner Of Canada | September 21, 2017: Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien’s Annual Report outlines actions and recommendations for overhauling privacy protections to address consent challenges posed by the digital age. Canadians fear they are losing control over their personal information in the digital age and urgent Read more…
The Financial Times | September 21, 2017: France, UK and Italy demand action to block terror content online. The UK, France and Italy have promised to hold technology companies to account if they fail to block online terrorist or extremist content, with Emmanuel Macron, the French president, promising to “name Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: John Bringenberg | September 18, 2017: The next stratum of electricity and grid development over the coming two decades appears more and more clear. Major utilities methodically move through the regulatory and practical deployment of smarter communicating grid technology and advanced metering. This continues the Read more…
The Financial Times | September 19, 2017: Google and other tech groups came under cross-party pressure from lawmakers on Tuesday as an effort to combat sex trafficking turned into a test of Washington’s new wariness of the power of big tech companies. Senior Republicans and Democrats voiced their support for Read more…
RT Documentary | GPE – September 19, 2017: Technology and innovation hub, Shenzhen is known as China’s “silicon valley” and “the city of the future”. Once a fishing village, in just 50 years it grew into a megacity packed with skyscrapers. It hosts international technology exhibitions and forums and attracts Read more…
China Global Television Network (CGTN) | By: Wang Xueying | GPE – September 19, 2017: Desertification is threatening the environment and regional economies. In north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, an experiment is being carried out in the Kubuqi desert to control desertification and even turn it green. Originally published Read more…