Tag: Press Releases

  • More Food and Greener Farming with Specialised Transporters for Plants

    Essential to this are proteins called membrane transporters. Transporters also effectively carry high-energy molecules to where they are needed, help plants resist pathogens and make plants more tolerant to adverse conditions. One challenge is to make crops do these things simultaneously.

  • More Food and Greener Farming with Specialised Transporters for Plants

    Essential to this are proteins called membrane transporters. Transporters also effectively carry high-energy molecules to where they are needed, help plants resist pathogens and make plants more tolerant to adverse conditions. One challenge is to make crops do these things simultaneously.

  • SolarCity Opens its Largest U.S. Operations Center in Riverside

    New Facility Will Service Inland Empire, Brings Jobs to the Region SolarCity has opened its largest U.S. operations center in Riverside, CA to accommodate growing demand in the Inland Empire. The 35,000-square-foot facility is staffed by 75 employees and currently has 20 additional job openings, and SolarCity expects to hire 50 additional employees in the…

  • Solar Powered Garage Garners Green Mountain College a $50,000 E2 Energy to Educate Grant

    Students who participated in last semester’s Renewable Energy and Ecological Design (REED) at Green Mountain College (GMC) have designed solar-powered garage that won them a $50,000 grant to build it from the E2 Energy to Educate program sponsored by the Exelon Company, Constellation. The structure, which they have named after the Welsh sun goddess, “Olwen…

  • The Politics of Climate Change

    The study, in the journal Climatic Change, is one of the first to examine the influence of political orientation on perceived scientific agreement and support for government action to reduce emissions.