Environmental Research Advocates

Remember your mom telling you to make sure you chewed your food throughly? It's seems that mother did know best since it turns out that chewing can do much more then power your metabolism. Drs Aidin Delnavaz and Jeremie Voix, mechanical engineers at the Ecole de...

What does the accompanying image bring to mind? Layers of carved chocolate? How about a block of clay waiting to become a piece of art? Bet you didn't guess it's the future of 24 hour winter warmth thanks to the guys at MIT and a new exciting little molecule...

Stamping your feet when there's no Wi-Fi access around? Professor Harald Hass wants to show you the light and free you from that Wi-Fi hunt with Li-Fi!LiFi is the use of the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to transmit information at very high...

2016 is getting off to a very fast, (speeds of 200 mph fast), start at this years CES in Las Vegas, with the unveiling of Faraday Future's electric race car FFZERO1.The team at Faraday Future is serious about supplanting fossil fuels with cleaner electric power....

ERAscience's commitment to cutting edge research in the area of energy has led to a natural collaboration with one of the world's preeminent physics institutes, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Internationally regarded scientist Prof. Stephen...

In an interesting article for US News and World Report, Michael MacCracken, ERAscience board member and Chief Scientist for Climate Change at the Climate Institute in Washington, explores the possible reversal of climate change impact on Antarctica.Technology to the...

Conservation International Chief Scientist and ERA Science Board Member Sandy Andelman joins an esteemed panel to discuss Biodiversity and the Earth's Sustainability at the 2014 Global Philanthropy Forum.In the accompanying video below, Dr. Andelman...

Arthur Gossard, an ERA Science Board member, as well as a professor in the Materials Department and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently involved in a breakthrough discovery at the University of California Santa Barbara. The team...

We at Environmental Research Advocates are excited to announce that the focus of the 2014 Energy Prize will be in the field of energy stoarge research.We, along woth the world's science and energy communities, believe that finding a more efficient method of energy...

Conservation International’s Chairman, CEO and ERA Science Board member Peter Seligmann hosted the 18th annual Los Angeles dinner in Beverly Hills last Thursday to honor renowned Los Angeles attorney Skip Brittenham’s commitment to the environmental...

In a guest blog post for the Huffington Post, ERA Science Board Member and Executive Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute Steven Cohen advocates for more of the federal budget to be spent on improving renewable energy technology. Read his blog post to...

ERA Science Board member Flemming Besenbacher, a professor at Denmark’s Aarhus University, played a pivotal role in the breakthrough development of an environmentally friendly method of producing a molecular hydrogen compound used to refine crude oil into gasoline....

The future of innovation in renewable energy technology has us excited at Environmental Research Advocates! Here we share a few important developments in solar technology research and design to keep an eye on in 2014 and beyond. These technologies can help make solar...

As solar energy becomes more and more cost-competitive with oil as an energy source, we at Environmental Research Advocates are very excited to see the incredible strides being made by solar scientists and engineers.  For those of you who are less-familiar with...

We at ERA Science are dedicated to promoting environmental research and technology, most of which will prevent or lessen long-term climate change and its negative impacts on the earth. The apparent increase in natural disasters in the past few years, however, such as...

We at Environmental Research Advocates are excited by the potential implementation of graphene in renewable energy technologies.The carbon-based super-material is making technology news yet again, as scientists in Korea claim they have developed a graphene...

ERA Science Board Member and Director of the Climate Institute Michael MacCracken, joined by 19 other US climate scientists, signed an open letter to Gov. Jerry Brown, calling for a moratorium on hydraulic fracking in California. The state is a leader in efforts to...

The risks of irreversible damage to the environment will increase significantly if the global average temperature increases by 2° C in the coming century, and the solutions will only get more difficult and costly the longer we wait. That’s according to the United...

The 2013 World Solar Challenge came to an end in Adelaide, Australia, with the Dutch Nuon solar racing team from the Delft University of Technology taking home gold in the challenger class. The win constitutes Nuon’s fifth in seven tries.The World Solar...

Last month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first segment of its 5th report, which describes the scientific basis for climate change caused by humans. The IPCC’s goal is to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic...