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The miniature Earth
2007-10-28 11:36:00 The Miniature Earth project was first published in 2001. The original text of this movie was published in May 1990 with the title “State of the Village Report”. The statistics have been updated based on specialized publications and reports on the World’s population provided by different resources. More About: Lifestyle
UN expert comes down hard on biofuel
2007-10-28 09:15:00 A UN expert on Friday called the growing practice of converting food crops into biofuel “a crime against humanity”, saying it’s creating food shortages and price jumps that cause millions of poor people to go hungry. Last March, President Bush and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed an agreement committing their countries to boosting ... More About: Biofuel , Hard , Biofuels , Expert , Forestry
UN: Humanity?s survival is at risk
2007-10-27 04:43:00 The speed at which mankind has used the Earth?s resources over the past 20 years has put ?humanity?s very survival? at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded. The environmental audit, for the United Nations, found that each person in the world now requires a third more land to supply his or her needs than ... More About: Global Warming , Water , Humanity , Risk , Survival
Are climate change predictions significantly underestimated?
2007-10-26 11:00:00 A study carried out by a team of international researchers has found that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have increased significantly faster than predicted. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, claims that since 2000 levels of CO2 emissions have increased by 35% more than what most climate ... More About: Global Warming , Climate Change , Climate , Change , Predictions
BP fined $373m by US government
2007-10-26 10:56:00 Oil giant BP has been fined a total of $373m (£182m) by the US Department of Justice for environmental crimes and committing fraud. The fines include $50m relating to a Texas refinery explosion in 2005 that killed 15 people and injured 170 more. That sum is the highest fine of its kind levied under the Clean Air ... More About: Government , Industry , Petroleum , US Government
Bill Nye the Science Guy vs Ed Begley Jr
2007-10-26 10:54:00 Ed Begley is all about green. His passion about energy use and the environment serves as the plotline for his new reality show, “Living With Ed,” videotaped at his California home. A devout environmentalist, Begley has practiced what he’s preached for nearly four decades, and is often cast as that electric-car driving, wind-turbine and solar-panel pushing ... More About: Science , Bill
Prince Charles calls for urgent action on the rainforests
2007-10-26 10:48:00 The Prince of Wales has called for urgent action to save the remaining rainforests, saying their preservation is vital to combat climate change. He told a WWF dinner at Hampton Court Palace that it was crucial to find ways to make it more profitable to save rainforests than cut them down. Prince Charles said the destruction was ... More About: Politics , Action , Calls
It?s time ethanol was debunked - it is not and never will be the answer
2007-10-25 00:45:00 The only people ethanol will benefit are the corn growers and the ethanol distributors. Creating ethanol takes as much energy to create as you get out of it when you burn it. On the way it consumes petro-chemicals for fertilisers, harvesting, processing and distribution. Because we cannot give up valuable food acreage more land has to be ... More About: Ethanol , Answer , Time , Petroleum , Biofuels
Dance monkeys, dance
2007-10-23 17:53:00 Orbiting the sun at about 98 million miles is a little blue planet and this planet is run by a bunch of monkeys. Now, the monkeys don’t think of themselves as monkeys… More About: Humour , Dance , Monkeys
Are the oceans now almost fully saturated with CO2?
2007-10-21 10:08:00 The amount of carbon dioxide being absorbed by the world’s oceans has reduced, scientists have said. University of East Anglia researchers gauged CO2 absorption through more than 90,000 measurements from merchant ships equipped with automatic instruments. Results of their 10-year study in the North Atlantic show CO2 uptake halved between the mid-90s and 2000 to 2005. Scientists believe ... More About: The oceans , Carbon sequestration , Oceans , Waterways , The O
Lake Superior?s rapid warming is alarming scientists
2007-10-21 10:04:00 Lake Superior has been slowly heating up. It started 30 years ago with about 75 percent of the 6-degree increase in water temperature having happened since 1980. Scientists at the Large Lakes Observatory in Duluth, MN thought they had made a mistake: How could the lake be warming up twice as fast as the climate around ... More About: Global Warming , Rapid , Lake
The hidden cost of climate change
2007-10-21 09:59:00 The total economic cost of climate change in the United States will be major and nationwide in scope, but remains uncounted, unplanned for and largely hidden in public debate, says a new study from the University of Maryland. “The true economic impact of climate change is fraught with ‘hidden’ costs,” the report concludes. It adds that ... More About: Global Warming , Finance , Climate Change , Climate , Change
In the future your recycling will be monitored
2007-10-21 09:56:00 Chris Martin is busting open garbage bags in a Georgetown lot?three days’ worth of accumulated waste from two downtown office buildings. He won’t say which buildings they are. That’s because (a) the tenants are mostly environmental advocacy groups, and (b) the results of this “garbage audit” are not going to be pretty. Martin and his crew dump ... More About: Recycling , Future , The Future
The external combustion engine is resurrected
2007-10-21 09:51:00 A Florida-based inventor Harry Schoell has recently resurrected the long forgotten external combustion (EC) engine. Schoell dubbed his system Cyclone Green Revolution Engine - a low-cost, clean burning motor suitable for virtually any transport or power equipment. Unlike the internal combustion engines, EC powerplants rely on an external mechanism to burn liquid or gaseous fuel and set ... More About: Alternative Energy , External , Comb , Rect
The Amazon is drying up
2007-10-17 10:01:00 The Amazon rainforest is suffering one of the worst droughts for decades. Communities are getting cut off as boats can no longer navigate the shrunken river. Tens of thousands of fish are already dead and many more will die due to low oxygen levels in the water. This Greenpeace video tells a sad story of the devastation ... More About: Global Warming , Wildlife , Forestry , Waterways
Pollution-busting plants
2007-10-16 13:21:00 A French hybrid of an aspen tree may one day rid water supplies of the industrial degreaser (and human carcinogen) trichloro- ethylene (TCE), one of the most common contaminants at toxic waste sites in the U.S. And the tiny, but tractable, Arabidopsis plant can may mop up the residue of RDX, a military explosive blasted into ... More About: Pollution , Plants , Forestry
How will the rise in sea level affect where you live?
2007-10-13 12:45:00 This video shows the effects of coastlines around the world as they are engulfed by rising sea levels caused by climate change. Many people argue about the causes of global warming but the fact of its happening cannot be denied. If you live anywhere near the sea or a main river I suggest you take a ... More About: Global Warming , Live , Rise , Waterways
Al Gore wins the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
2007-10-12 13:42:00 As hotly predicted this week, Al Gore has been selected by the Nobel prize committee as one of the recipients of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president and presidential candidate who reinvented himself as an environmentalist, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to fight global warming. Gore ... More About: Global Warming , Action
The rapidly disappearing Greenland ice cap is triggering earthquakes
2007-10-12 09:28:00 The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometers in size break off. Scientists monitoring events this summer say the acceleration could be catastrophic in terms of sea-level rise and make predictions in February by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change far too low. The glacier ... More About: Global Warming , Earthquakes , Sapp , Erin
A new plant may replace corn for bio diesel
2007-10-09 19:51:00 Researchers with the University of Missouri are looking into a new, promising plant that some are calling a “super plant.” The jatropha plant has a number of characteristics that may make it great for producing bio-diesel. The plant can survive some pretty harsh conditions, including high heat and drought. Unlike corn, it is a perennial, so farmers only ... More About: Diesel , Corn , Biofuels , Plant , Dies
Is Anyone Listening? By Isaac Asimov
2007-10-09 17:14:00 “Everyone who has reached my level of late youth and has spent his time watching people and listening to them is bound to have become cynical. I, too, have become cynical. I have difficulty accepting things according to appearances and have trouble believing promises and assurances. One ... More About: Commentary , Isaac Asimov , Isaac , Listening , Overpopulation
Greenhouse gas emissions have already passed the danger mark
2007-10-09 10:35:00 Tim Flannery, a world recognized climate change scientist, said a U.N. international climate change report due in November will show that greenhouse gases have already reached a dangerous level. “The global economic boom has accelerated greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold not expected for a decade and could potentially cause irreversible climate change”, said Flannery. The ... More About: Global Warming , Emissions , Greenhouse , Danger , Greenhouse Gas
How many trees does my office Kill?
2007-10-08 16:46:00 This week Pablo at triplepundit.com was asked by a reader how many trees his office kills each year. In order to give an answer he had to collect some basic information like how many reams of paper they use each week. The reader’s office uses around 60 reams per week, an average of 100 sheets per person ... More About: Office , Trees , Carbon footprint , Kill , Forestry
Summer Arctic ice to disappear by 2030
2007-10-08 16:36:00 Two similar reports made their appearance this week regarding the end of the “melt season” for the Arctic region, and the dramatic drop off in the ice sheet. One report believes that evidence is pointing towards a total disappearance of the ice sheet by the summer of 2030, and the other report believes that a 40% ... More About: Global Warming , Summer , Disappear , Sapp
China switching to energy-efficient lightbulbs
2007-10-02 21:48:00 China, which makes 70 percent of the world’s lightbulbs, has agreed to phase out incandescent bulbs in favour of more energy-efficient ones, part of a push by a leading world environmental funding agency. The transition could be made in the next 10 years, said Monique Barbut, chief executive officer of the Global Environment Facility. “We are starting ... More About: China , Energy , Lighting , Carbon footprint , Switching
The Maldives may sink this century due to climate change
2007-10-02 21:40:00 Unless the world starts taking climate change seriously and cuts greenhouse emissions, the Maldives could become uninhabitable this century, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the president of the Indian Ocean archipelago, says. With a United Nations climate panel forecasting world sea levels likely to rise by up to 59 cm (2 ft) by 2100 due to global warming, ... More About: Global Warming , Climate Change , Climate , Change
1 in 8 trees are destroyed for tobacco production
2007-10-01 20:44:00 Without even factoring in the paper wrapping, packaging and print advertisements - which require as much paper by weight as the tobacco being grown - nearly 600 million trees are felled each year to provide the fuel necessary for drying out the tobacco. That means one in eight trees cut down each year worldwide is being ... More About: Trees , Production , Carbon footprint , Forestry , Rees
The world?s cleanest car
2007-10-01 19:14:00 After fourteen years of research and development, Guy Negre has developed an engine that could become one of the biggest technological advances of this century. Its application to Compressed Air Technology(CAT) vehicles gives them significant economical and environmental advantages. With the incorporation of bi-energy (compressed air + fuel) the CAT Vehicles have increased their driving range to ... More About: World , Transport , Alternative Energy , The World
Leading firms sign up for carbon rating
2007-10-01 19:10:00 Several leading companies in the UK have signed up to be involved in a scheme to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of certain products. During the scheme these companies will work alongside the Carbon Trust to measure the ecological impact of each product, from the sourcing of raw material right through to the disposal. The companies ... More About: Sign , Carbon footprint , Leading , Firms
Hydrogen from algae
More articles from this author:2007-10-01 19:03:00 Algae are a promising source of biofuels: besides being easy to grow and handle, some varieties are rich in oil similar to that produced by soybeans. Algae also produce another fuel: hydrogen. They make a small amount of hydrogen naturally during photosynthesis. However, Anastasios Melis, a plant- and microbial-biology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, believes ... More About: Hydrogen , Biofuels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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