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The aviation industry may breath a sigh of relief as bottleneck technology comes to its rescue. Bombarding a plane’s wings with numerous tiny holes is supposed to reduce mid-flight drag and flatten the ever-rising carbon-emissions by a substantial...
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The U.S House of Representative just passed a bill that will address global warming by reducing the emission of gasses that cause climate change. It was a watered-down...
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For all the right-wing hysteria about President Obama being a socialist, the president is actually quite a centrist and even a corporatist. Depending on one’s...
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In a beloved film from my childhood, “Flight of Dragons,” the scientist hero confronts the evil red magician on a dark crag. As menacing snakes sprout out...
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After much negotiations, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives finally managed to pass President Obama’s “Cap-and-Trade” bill as part of...
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Eco Factor: Synthetic trees to capture CO2 from the air and convert it into liquid CO2.
Research scientists at the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at...
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The Symposium on the Climate Change in London witnessed the US Energy Secretary Steven Chu raising concerns over global warming. He went on to suggest painting roofs...
made popular Jun 23 2009
For the green hoodies New York’s the place to be, because erected outside the Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, by the Deutsche Bank is a 70-feet-tall digital...
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Eco Factor: Real-time CO2 counter encourages people to curtail emissions.
Deutsche Bank, a name not directly related to environmental conservation, has lit a...
made popular Jun 19 2009
By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa’s farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent’s precarious food...
made popular Jun 18 2009
Oslo - Can the North Sea basin hold all of the carbon dioxide in Europe? Norway certainly hopes so.
At a high-level conference in Bergen last month, the oil-rich...
made popular Jun 16 2009
Argentina’s Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.
Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Definition – Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its...
made popular Jun 10 2009
Nuclear warfare is a constant threat to life on earth but climate change is no less serious, says a summit of the world’s Nobel Laureates who, along with Prince...
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Jordanian Ministry of Environment will be marking World Environment Day, which is usually celebrated on the 5th of June, through a new campaign titled, “Your...
made popular Jun 5 2009
World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
Commemorated...
made popular Jun 5 2009
People talk about the future, yet climate change is claiming lives now, notably in Africa. The nations, governors and those governed must stand up and be counted.
The...
made popular Jun 5 2009
Eco Factor: Solar-generating roofs coated with reflective tiles to reduce solar gain.
Recently news surfaced that painting the world white would help curb global...
made popular Jun 4 2009
On Tuesday, French climber Alain Robert, popularly known as “Spiderman,” climbed a 41-story Sydney tower with his bare hands, just to make the world aware about...
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Carbon Capture & Storage technology has been around for many decades but researchers could not make any substantial progress in its testing. Abandoning this tale...
made popular May 29 2009
Researchers all over the world are coming up with various suggestions to help tackle the global warming. Accordingly, the US Energy Secretary Steven Chu proposes to...
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Most projects aimed at carbon offsetting are “verging on a gigantic scam”. These evocative words were uttered by the renowned British Earth Scientist James...
made popular Feb 5 2009
Angstomega unit official blog for 2009
For many years I have attempted to promote an idea that in my view will turn the face of transportation into the future of our...
made popular Jan 22 2009
Eco factor: CD/DVD cases are made up of rice-based-plastic with reduced emissions.
There are innumerable objects and acts of daily routine that influence the...
made popular Jan 8 2009
‘Green Building: First Zero Energy Classroom Debuts in Boston’
Planet Earth is in big need of a greener environment for thousands of reasons. Green...
made popular Nov 12 2008
‘Global Warming Mugs’
Want to see the effects of global warming without waiting for ten to twenty years? Then turn to these global warming cups, where you...
made popular Nov 6 2008
We need to reduce global carbon emissions (which hit about 10 billion tons last year) until they are equal to or less than the amount of carbon sequestered by the...
made popular Oct 31 2008
Technical Specifications:
Being irresponsible toward the environment is a sure way of bruising one’s eco-conscience. But with evolving technology and design...
made popular Oct 10 2008
UN figures suggest that meat production puts more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than transport.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that...
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The proposal of former England prime minister Tony Blair for a G8 2050 climate pact is a practical way to bring the rapidly deteriorating environmental situation to a...
made popular Jun 29 2008
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has ranked China as the top global carbon dioxide emitter and it is the third western agency to do so in the recent past....
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Polar bears are under threat due to warming caused by greenhouse gases emission from burning fossil fuels.
The ice edge where the bears hunt in spring are melting too...
made popular Feb 6 2008
Eco Lighthouse could be defined as an ideal specimen of architecture, especially due to its ecofriendly model. Interestingly, this is the UK’s first ever net zero...
made popular Feb 1 2008
The Asian markets and its economy that seem to be charging forward today with lightening speed, will soon be reportedly, threatened by an unlikely enemy.
The CHANGING...
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Understanding the dire need of feedstock oils that are low priced and readily available, two Arizona alternative energy outfits are joining forces to commercialize a...
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EasyJet Plc, Europe’s second-largest low-cost carrier, has recently unveiled its vision of a short haul aircraft that it expects will produce 50 percent less...
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UK has unveiled first of its kind zero emission home that would set the environmental standard for all new homes in the future, especially at this time when global...
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The United States, despite being a major polluting nation, is planning to pour cold water on the plan to push for a new deal which will succeed the Kyoto Protocol at...
made popular May 23 2007
You must have read in your science classes that the Sun is the ultimate source of energy on the Earth. What if we can convert that energy into power in quantities...
made popular May 18 2007
To bind carbon reduction targets legally, the UK Government announced the capping of carbon dioxide emission by supermarkets, hotels, councils and universities within...
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