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Eco Factor: VIVACE converters to harness ocean or river power even at slow currents.
Oceans pack an enormous amount of energy in themselves. Researchers estimate that just 0.1 percent of the energy in the ocean could support the energy needs of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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An unusual number of dead and live penguins, most of them young ones, have been washed ashore on the beaches of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil, more than 3,500 kilometers...
made popular Jul 22 2008
It is a well established fact that oceans play a pivotal role in global warming, with its huge surface layers absorbing a large quantity of heat and carbon dioxide from...
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Now, the ocean currents, temperature and salinity can be predicted up to a week in advance! That is really a convenient period for the authorities to take necessary...
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Waters low in Oxygen have created a death trap for aquatic life off the coast of Oregon. This has been occurring since the summer of 2002. Deep sea fish and crabs that...
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Blame global warming for those weakening air currents in parts of the Pacific region. And this is contributing hugely to an increase in rain all over this region. With...
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In the search for alternative energy, most of the scientists have heavily banked on the wind and sun ‘ which proved effective in producing huge amount of energy...
made popular Feb 24 2006
Do you know, rapid climate change may be related to how vigorously ocean currents move heat between low and high latitudes? The concept that oceans and climate are...
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