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The undergrads at the UK’s Imperial College in London have set up to build a zero emissions fuel cell hybrid racing kart powered by hydrogen. The undertaking project is named the ‘Imperial Hybrid Racing’.

Up to 20 undergraduates are working to…

Nissan’s all-new 2007 Altima Hybrid is set to be sold in Canada by April next year. This eco-friendly model’s first entry into the hybrid gasoline/electric vehicle segment will be arriving in dealerships North of the border. The base price will be…

Innumerable birds and animals die each year due to catastrophic oil spills – especially when contaminating river or ocean water. So, for cleaning these devastating oil spills on oceans, lakes and other waterways, U.S. scientists have developed a new..

The furnace using micro-combined-heat-and-power (CHP) units, will not just be environment friendly, but also will be capable of generating electricity in the burning process!

The CHPs turns natural gas into hot water. It generates up to $800 a year..

Now, charge your cell phone without worrying of getting hold of an electric plug-in while traveling!

Here is a relieving solution for you — a mobile phone charged by the sun’s power designed by the NTT DoCoMo.

This ultra-handy phone is…

On lower-altitude flight paths near airports, there are chances of planes colliding with birds, the result of which can be catastrophic. Though to spot birds, radar and infrared detectors are already present, they cannot tell a large bird and could…

Now scientists are planning high-tech devices – like floating robots — to monitor data including climate change, ocean temperatures and other weather forecasting.

Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) aims…

Teaching young children for 22 years, Cathy Bache is convinced that outdoor education is the way forward. So, she plans to open Britain’s first totally open-air nursery in Scotland! Yes Scotland, one of the coldest areas of the country.

Bache’s…

A handful of tiny and cheap sensors — motes — can be scattered around for measuring all types of things present in the environment — from chemicals in the soil to scents suspended in the air.

Till date, the motes of the dust particles’ size…

Ideally for use on farms and in other large domestic buildings in an environment-friendly way, researchers will be creating the first small-scale biomass-fired combined heat and power (CHP) system.

Till date, though there are a number of…