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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 projected continuation.
Causes - Global surface temperature increased rapidly during the..
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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...
made popular Jun 29 2009
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...
made popular Jun 27 2009
After much negotiations, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives finally managed to pass President Obama’s “Cap-and-Trade” bill as part of...
made popular Jun 27 2009
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...
made popular Jun 24 2009
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...
made popular Jun 19 2009
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
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...
made popular Jun 6 2009
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...
made popular Jun 2 2009
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...
made popular May 27 2009
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Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT) has come up with a new finding, according to which by the end of 2100, world temperature will rise up by 9 degrees. Their...
made popular May 22 2009
It has been realized in research that apart from eco-warriors like us, a vast majority of people, with the mention of the word environment, have their energy levels...
made popular Apr 22 2009
Senator Gaylord Nelson had an idea for Earth Day when he actually thought of finding a way to put back the focus on environment once and for all. Earth Day is all about...
made popular Apr 21 2009
Prius
Company name: Toyota
Launch year: December 1997
Specifications:
Top speed: 106 mph
0-62 mph: 10.9 sec
Power: 76bhp Petrol and 67bhp...
made popular Apr 21 2009
Health Catastrophe
Scene 1: Year 2020, Average Global temperature up by 3 C.
Britain has again experienced a malaria outbreak, for the third time in two years....
made popular Apr 21 2009
It has been realized in research that apart from eco-warriors like us, a vast majority of people, with the mention of the word environment, have their energy levels...
made popular Apr 21 2009
The Global warming I F K
Global warming refers to the increase in the mean global temperature
of the earth due to green house effects. But the...
made popular Apr 8 2009
As per Kyto Protocol, if we want to survive peacefully on this planet, We have to come forward for Plantation, and protect the layer of ozone. As per agreement greenery...
made popular Nov 14 2008
‘Partying helps power a Dutch night club’
Here comes the world’s first sustainable dance club, which generates electricity. This might be a bit...
made popular Oct 24 2008
Global warming is perhaps the most important environmental problem in the world today. Many organizations, big celebrities are giving their valuable time for the...
made popular Sep 25 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...
made popular Sep 8 2008
Blade is a tiny cylindrical device that fits onto the tip of the tailpipe of a vehicle to dramatically boost its fuel efficiency, thereby saving gas, cash and...
made popular Sep 4 2008
Once again we have news related to the latest and the most innovative part of lighting technology- OLED. It is no secret that I love LEDs and it seems that even before...
made popular Jul 24 2008
The world is going green and the next generation of green machines, inspired entrepreneurs, Earth conscious students from around the world and the hopes and prayers of...
made popular May 14 2008
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
Wow. India and Asia will be devastated. Beware. Get your act together. Become more and more compliant with every which environmental rule in the book, otherwise you...
made popular Nov 13 2007
‘If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn’. This is what comes to my mind whenever I read about anything that relates to degrading...
made popular Aug 23 2007
‘If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn’. This is what comes to my mind whenever I read about anything that relates to degrading...
made popular Aug 23 2007
The major debate among car manufacturers today is whether Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) can solve the energy crisis or the amount of CO2 stopped from going...
made popular Jul 24 2007
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