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Throughout the world, the ice is melting, Himalayan glaciers are retreating, and the water levels are going up. The climate is changing drastically. Green house gases are to be blamed for all this. Keeping all these things in mind, the UN asked 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...
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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...
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
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...
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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In the war against global warming, scientists are decoding more and more sources of greenhouse gas emissions, the key contributor to climate change. Amidst the hunt,...
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With the launch of the Near Zero Emissions Coal initiative, the environmentalists have definitely been sent dancing. The European-Chinese partnership is set to...
made popular Nov 21 2007
With the poles losing out with its ice and the world with its long shivering winters, Hong Kong does not seem to be lagging behind in the race. Thanks to the...
made popular Jun 12 2007
Japan has proposed a successor to the Kyoto Protocol and urged the world to halve the greenhouse gas emission by the year 2050.
Ahead of the Group of Eight summit in...
made popular May 25 2007
Desperate to draw the attention of the policymakers around the world, Greenpeace activists have come up with an innovative idea and they plan to unveil a replica of the...
made popular May 21 2007
With the worries of global warming rising along with the increase in greenhouse gas emissions across the world, researchers are up with arms to find alternatives from...
made popular May 19 2007
Companies in the United States have developed a new method to gasify coal, which would reduce their cost of managing its greenhouse gas emissions.
In order to reduce...
made popular Apr 26 2007
‘We can avert the worst of global warming by getting united globally’. This is what a scientific panel sponsored by the U.N. will issue in its third study...
made popular Apr 24 2007
With the Canadian forests inhaling a huge amount of greenhouse gases, federal negotiators wanted to allow industrialized countries to use forests in calculations that...
made popular Apr 11 2007
Marriott International — the US-based hotel chain — seems to be serious about its commitment to environmental stewardship. This is revealed by its recent...
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The state of New York will soon build an ethanol production plant near Rochester that will use paper sludge, wood chips and other agricultural waste as its raw...
made popular Dec 21 2006
Asian Development Bank (ADB) commissioned a report, which states that ‘Asia’s greenhouse gas emissions will treble over the next 25 years rapidly.’...
made popular Dec 15 2006
Silicon Valley could be underwater within just half a century! But, what is the answer to the scientists’ fears and warnings?
1. The U.S. government’s...
made popular Nov 17 2006
Sweden, Britain and Denmark are doing the most to protect against climate change. But, are their efforts enough or moving on the lines of the...
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When the world is planning to curb global warming and reduce emissions, why don’t we start with it in our own little ways? The DOE and ECD Ovonics is exactly...
made popular Nov 8 2006
Battle climate change on the home front first. And, if each one of us include some environment-friendly steps in our everyday life, hope the solution will see its route...
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Europe can meet all its electricity needs, even after making deep cuts in CO2 emissions from electricity generation by 70 percent by the year 2050! At the same time, it...
made popular Nov 1 2006
Now, pigs are to help power our home appliances and other electrical gadgets - an important part of our everyday life! Approved under the Clean Development Mechanism,...
made popular Sep 22 2006
According to the state of California, the cars of the six carmakers — General Motors, Toyota, Ford, Honda, Chrysler and Nissan - are emitting greenhouse gases to...
made popular Sep 21 2006
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