Category: oil
There's no shortage of water on the blue planet—just a shortage of fresh water. New technologies may offer better ways to get the salt out.
Three hundred million people now get their water from the sea or from brackish groundwater that is too salty to drink.
Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will present a Sept. 18 speech by T. Boone Pickens live on the Web. Pickens is one of America's most successful businessmen and the founder of an ambitious, self-funded grassroots campaign aimed at reducing the nation's dependence on imported oil.
T. Boone Pickens, one of America's most successful businessmen and the founder of an ambitious, self-funded grassroots campaign aimed at reducing the nation's dependence on imported oil, will speak at Indiana University Bloomington Sept. 18.
Environmental experts, from professors doing the research to elected officials shaping the policies, convened at UCLA today for a forum tackling climate change, including the link between saving the environment and shoring up national security.
"We've got to do something about our national se
More than 160 leading experts - ranging from USC faculty to government officials and business executives - gathered at the Davidson Conference Center to address pressing infrastructure challenges facing the Southwest Megaregion, which encompasses Southern California as well as portions of Nevada
More environmentally friendly and cost-efficient methods for producing everything from petrochemicals to pharmaceuticals could be on the way thanks to a significant advancement in the way certain molecular filters are manufactured, says a Texas A&M University researcher who has helped develop the
USC students will face an enormous challenge during the next few years: Help Los Angeles and other cities survive or risk losing them.
With dwindling coal and oil reserves and increased awareness about climate change, zero-carbon energy sources-such as nuclear energy-are in the spotlight.
The ongoing cooperation between the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Tsinghua University's School of Information Science and Technology rose a level during the recent visit of dean Yannis C. Yortsos and a large USC delegation to Beijing.
