Baguio City told to stop using landfill
THE Supreme Court has issued a writ of kalikasan enjoining the city government of Baguio from further degrading a major river system by continuously dumping waste in the 30-year-old Irisan landfill that caused the garbage spill during the onslaught ofmore
Companies are fighting for the right to supply green energy to Nova Scotians with competing plans to...
Companies are fighting for the right to supply green energy to Nova Scotians with competing plans to build wind farms. It's all part of the province's goal of having 25 per cent of the province's electricity generated through renewable forms of energy bymore
Key- Stone Offers Environmentally Friendly UV Protective Products
Jean Curle CEO Key-Stone Phone +44 ( 0) 1928 798 122 info@key-stone.uk.com http://www.key-stone.uk.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Maidenhead, UK - Jan. 27, 2012 - Jean Curle, CEO of Key-Stone, is pleased to announce the firm's continued partnership withmore
Chernobyl tours offered to Euro 2012 fans
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Euro 2012 doesn't start until June but tour companies have already begun pitching visits to the shuttered nuclear power plant that exploded in 1986, spewing radiation across the entire area. Britain's Sunday Mirrormore
Air pollution rockets in capital
CLOUDS of smoke from Lunar New Year fireworks sent air pollution readings soaring in the more sensitive measurement system Beijing started using a little more than a week ago, reports said yesterday. Readings of fine particulate matter called PM2.5more
Fireworks send air pollution to 5 times safe level
Workers clear up the debris from firecrackers and fireworks on Yunnan Road in Shanghai at around 12:30am yesterday. As local residents welcomed the God of Fortune with a massive citywide fireworks display overnight on Thursday, air pollution soared tomore
Climate change may shrink wheat crops
More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change. Current projections based on computer models underestimate the extent tomore
David Rose: Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again): Updated by Piers Corbyn
Met Office releases new figures which show no warming in 15 years The supposed ?consensus? on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15more
Cutting Climate Change is Simple: Just Stop Subsidising Fossil Fuels
I knew that this was true but I didn?t realise the effect was so great. The simple way to cut climate change is to stop subsidising fossil fuels. According to IEA research, 37 governments spent $409bn on artificially lowering the price of fossil fuels inmore
Climate change may shrink wheat crops
More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change. Current projections based on computer models underestimate the extent tomore
SunMaxx Solar and Intelligent Green Solutions Install Solar Thermal System at Moody Air Force Base i
SunMaxx Solar, a leading, vertically integrated manufacturer of solar thermal systems and components, is pleased to announce the installation of a solar thermal system at Moody Air Force Base.The project was conducted in conjunction with Intelligentmore
Notable scientists quell global warming fears
No drastic action is required on global warming, said sixteen notable scientists in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Friday, January 27. No need to panic. No need to decarbonize the world?s economy. No economically...more
Kommentar zu Accelerating Global Warming Getting Ready To Shock-Freeze Europe! von DirkH
Click on a station and then on the right on ?4-Tage-Prognose? (4 day forecast). http://wetterstationen.meteomedia.de/map=Deutschland&station=103480more
Kommentar zu Accelerating Global Warming Getting Ready To Shock-Freeze Europe! von P Gosselin
What?s awful is that the wind is projected to pick up. That means heavy heating to stay warm.more
THe Daily Word in firefighting drug traffickers, nuclear waste, National Good Day Day and Juan Epstein
Select sidebar boxes to add below. You can also click and drag to rearrange the boxes; minimize, maximize and close using the little icons on each box. To re-add a box you closed, return to this menu. Because you are not logged in, any changes you makemore
Japan emissions rising after atomic crisis
Article Views : 28 Written by : AFP TOKYO: Japanese manufacturer?s greenhouse gas emissions are rising after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, hurting the country?s carbon reduction goals, a report said Sunday. The trend will deal a blow tomore
After years of destruction, oil spill underscores need to protect delicate Gulf ecosystem
TIVOLI, Texas ? For decades, farmers and fishermen along the Gulf of Mexico watched as their sensitive ecosystem's waters slowly got dirtier and islands eroded, all while the country largely ignored the destruction. It took BP PLC's well blowing out inmore
With $100 a Barrel Oil, Why Isn?t Green Tech Better?
The demand for energy is expected to double in the next 40 years globally, as populations grow and access to electricity increases, yet a large-scale, safe alternative to fossil fuels has yet to be built. ?We can?t go on subsidizing new forms of energymore
Climate-driven heat peaks may shrink wheat crops
Drought-stricken wheat crops bake in the sun in 2011 near Hermleigh, Texas. More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change.more
268 renewable energy contracts given by DoE
Energy Secretary Jose Rene D. Almendras made an assurance that the government was continuously awarding renewable energy service contracts to deserving project proponents, with total approvals already reaching 268 as of January 9 this year. ?We havemore
Phil Valentine's film attacksAl Gore, global warming claims
Posted By:Scottyboy, 1/29/2012 12:57:48 PM Radio talk show personality Phil Valentine, who for years has derided Al Gore and concerns about global warming, has taken his crusade to the big screen. His movie ? An Inconsistent Truth ? is showingmore
Cutting Climate Change is Simple: Just Stop Subsidising Fossil Fuels
I knew that this was true but I didn?t realise the effect was so great. The simple way to cut climate change is to stop subsidising fossil fuels. According to IEA research, 37 governments spent $409bn on artificially lowering the price of fossil fuels inmore
Cadmium pollution contained in south China river
LIUZHOU, Guangxi, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The cadmium pollution in a river in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region following a spill from an industrial plant has been controlled and no new leakage has been found, local environmental authoritiesmore
Carbon storage in tropical vegetation: New map to help developing nations track deforestation, report on emissions
A study published in Nature Climate Change today finds that tropical vegetation contains 21 percent more carbon than previous studies had suggested. Using a combination of remote sensing and field data, scientists from Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC),more
Boulder council to consider climate goals, extending carbon tax in light of utility plans
Discussion to center on city's 'Energy Future' History of Boulder's Climate Action Plan tax 2002 -- The City Council adopts the Kyoto goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels November 2006 -- Voters approve the CAP tax,more
Waste Kings Eight Steps to Being Greener
Pressbox (Press Release)- Waste King, the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company which guarantees to recycle over 84 per cent of all the waste it collects, has published its top eight suggestions to help everyonemore
Obama ally questions Endangered Species Act moves
Washington -- The Obama administration is setting too high a threshold for listing an imperiled plant or animal under the Endangered Species Act, according to Rep. Edward Markey. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who is one of the White House's closestmore
Cutting Climate Change is Simple: Just Stop Subsidising Fossil Fuels
I knew that this was true but I didn?t realise the effect was so great. The simple way to cut climate change is to stop subsidising fossil fuels. According to IEA research, 37 governments spent $409bn on artificially lowering the price of fossil fuels inmore
Renewable Energy Integration A Valuable Proposition In The Uae
: Integrating renewable energy generation into UAE power grids is more achievable and realistic than in other countries in Europe, an industry expert has said today. Bruce Smith, Business Advisor for the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA),more
Farmers in Mozambique trying to adapt farming to climate change
Over the past two decades, Mozambique has suffered more than its fair share of weather disasters. The east African nation has seen more devastating cyclones, droughts and floods than any country on the continent. Farmers in Mozambique have beenmore