Fourteen high school graduates from across the United States and Canada begin their college careers this fall, with the help of $1,000 scholarships from Goulds Pumps, a brand of ITT Corp.
GE Water & Process Technologies will invest $82 million over the next 10 years to establish a world-scale research and development center in Singapore.
Over the next three years, the U.S. government and other partners are to invest $16.4 million in PlayPump clean water systems throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
The Geothermal Energy Association has released a new handbook on the socioeconomics of geothermal energy. The publication provides information about the costs, benefits and other effects of geothermal development on people and communities around the country.
Data gathered by a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth show that Greenland continued to lose ice mass at a significant rate through April 2006, and that the rate of loss is accelerating, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.