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25/10/2008
New-generation solar technology created in Australia will drive ''a solar explosion'' across California, the state's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, says.
''Today, we celebrate clean energy and new jobs,'' Mr Schwarzenegger told a crowd ...
25/10/2008
IMAGINE yourself living in Scotland in 2050.
We all now exist in a world where mankind’s carbon pollution has been cut back to the emission levels of 100 years ago in the mid-20th century.
We each participate in daily democratic ...
24/10/2008
Saving the planet is looking a lot less profitable than it was a few months ago, and investors once enamored with finding the next high-flying alternative energy startup are retrenching.Venture capitalists poured a record number of ...
24/10/2008
Good news has turned out to be bad. The ocean has helped slow global warming by absorbing much of the excess heat and heat-trapping carbon dioxide that has been going into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution.All ...
24/10/2008
Simon Woods, who is 6, would like to play on a baseball team. His mother, Sharon Astyk, is sympathetic, but is also heavily committed to shrinking her family's carbon footprint. "We haven't been able to find a league that doesn't involve a long ...
24/10/2008
The Kenyan government has hailed bio-diesel as an innovation that combines green politics with poverty reduction. But recent drops in biofuel prices have caused concern about the sustainability of alternative fuel production.
Rural ...
24/10/2008
European Union governments have formally approved an earlier decision to include aviation in the EU Emission Trading Scheme from 2012.
A spokesperson confirmed that the process, which has been building for several months, and agreed in ...
24/10/2008
If you had to choose the region of Britain under greatest pressure from the global demand for food it would have to be eastern England. Ever since the second world war this landscape of big skies and broad, featureless farmlands has been the ...
24/10/2008
There's a new wave of horror films stalking the box office.
Master of modern horror? Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' presented eco-disaster as both shocking and a call-to-arms.
You can forget the torture porn of "Saw" and ...
24/10/2008
Many pesticides used in the European Union may damage brain growth in fetuses and young children, according to a study published on Friday.
The study urged the European Union to tighten restrictions.
"Toxicity to the brain is ...
24/10/2008
The government has been warned by MPs that a rush to meet 2020 renewables targets may mean over expansion of existing technologies and not enough research into new ones.
As part of an EU target to increase renewables by 20 per cent by ...
24/10/2008
The media has a key role to play in effectively addressing the two major challenges of the 21st century -- sustainable development and climate change. But is it doing enough?
The verdict was mixed -- at least judging by the views ...
24/10/2008
Industry and farms that pollute the Great Barrier Reef could be hit with tough penalties if they don't comply with new rules to save the natural icon.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh told a reef water quality summit in Brisbane on Friday, ...
24/10/2008
Mayors and officials from 32 major cities from around the world urged "all nations" Thursday to achieve "drastic cuts" in greenhouse gas emissions under a global climate accord to succeed the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.
"The international ...
24/10/2008
A UN report launched here on Thursday says few of the world's coastal cities will be spared by climate change.
In the 20th century, sea levels rose by an estimated 17 centimeters, and global mean projections for sea level rise between ...
24/10/2008
The Indian corporate conglomerate, Tata, says it is ready to provide water services in this vast country and also prove that privatisation does not have to involve expensive foreign consultants and providers.
The Jamshedpur Utilities and ...
24/10/2008
After three decades without starting a single new plant, the American nuclear power industry is getting ready to build again.
The U.S. nuclear industry's announcement several years ago that it would resume plant construction was met with ...
24/10/2008
One of China's biggest companies will today become the first state-controlled business in the country to join an international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The powerful Climate Group will announce three Chinese members, ...
24/10/2008
THE head of the UN's peak scientific body on climate change believes it is still possible for the world to reach an agreement that will avoid the risk of catastrophic global warming.
Dr Rajendra Pachauri's optimism about an accord is at ...
24/10/2008
Bill Radke: Oil dependent countries are quaking as the price of a barrel of crude drops and drops. This morning, OPEC oil ministers meeting in Vienna agreed on a big production cut -- 1.5 million barrels a day starting next month. But oil is ...
24/10/2008
The Met Office and researchers at the University of Reading looked at levels of salinity in the Atlantic Ocean.
In the subtropical zone salt has increased to a level outside natural variablitity over the last 20 years, suggesting less ...
24/10/2008
The European Union on Friday imposed tougher pollution limits on airlines from 2012, angering the air industry and the United States, whose carriers will be included.
From January 2012, all airlines operating in or out of the European ...
24/10/2008
A gas used in manufacture of flat panel televisions, computer displays, microcircuits, and thin-film solar panels is 17,000 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and it is far more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously ...
24/10/2008
Sophisticated climate and environmental data will be combined with social science knowledge by a team of Arizona State University researchers investigating human vulnerability to deadly heat exposure.
With the mounting effects of climate ...
24/10/2008
Changes in the salinity of our oceans are being brought about by man's influence on our climate, suggests new research conducted by the Met Office Hadley Centre and the Walker Institute for Climate System Research at the University of Reading, to ...