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Global warming won't harm wind energy production, climate models predict

Their report — the first analysis of long-term stability of wind over the U.S. — appears in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early…

Researcher Estimates Future Sea Level Rise by Looking to the Past

BU College of Arts & Sciences Paleoclimatologist Maureen Raymo and colleagues published findings that should help scientists better estimate the level of sea…

Driving mechanism

The technology describes a device for the energy transference between a flowing medium and a crankshaft which uses the kinetic energy of the flowing medium

(e.g. stream flow in rivers, ocean currents or atmospheric currents) to produce energy.

Performance goals needed now for offshore wind turbine industry in US

In order to develop offshore wind energy in the United States, a clear set of requirements is needed, the report says. As the U.S. currently lacks standards,…

Scientists Can Track Origin of Shark Fins Using DNA Zip-Coding

An international team of scientists, led by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, has used DNA to determine that groups of…

Mercury converted to its most toxic form in ocean waters

After two years of testing water samples across the Arctic Ocean, the researchers found that relatively harmless inorganic mercury, released from human…

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